Felix Endrich

Felix Endrich (5 December 1921 – 31 January 1953) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal along with brakeman Fritz Waller in the two-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.{{cite web|title=Felix Endrich - Bobsleigh|url=http://www.olympic.org/news/felix-endrich-bobsleigh/231049|publisher=Olympic.org|access-date=October 15, 2014|date=January 30, 1984}}{{cite book|last1=Wallenchinsky|first1=David|title=The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics|date=1984|publisher=Penguin Books|location=New York|page=558}}

Career

As a pilot, Endrich won four medals in the two-man event at the FIBT World Championships with two golds (1949, 1953), one silver (1947), and one bronze (1951).

Endrich was killed at the 1953 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany during the four-man competition when the sled he was driving hurtled over a wall and crashed into a tree. He suffered a broken neck in the collision and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He had also won the two-man world championship a week earlier.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930081213/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,889656,00.html "Death at Garmisch"]. Time. February 9, 1953.

References

Category:1921 births

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Category:Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Category:Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Category:Bobsledders who died while racing

Category:Swiss male bobsledders

Category:Sport deaths in Germany

Category:Olympic medalists in bobsleigh

Category:Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Category:Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland

Category:20th-century Swiss sportsmen