Fritz Grau

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| name = Fritz Grau

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| nationality = German

| sport = Bobsleigh

| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|11|8|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|7|5|1894|11|8|df=yes}}

| death_place = Poznań, Poland

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Fritz Grau (8 November 1894 – 5 July 1945){{Olympedia|86197}} was a German bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He won two bronze medals at the FIBT World Championships (two-man: 1933, four-man: 1930). Grau was seriously injured, along with teammates Albert Brehme and Helmut Hopnaann, shortly before the 1932 Winter Olympics. He also finished sixth in the two-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091333/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-2.html Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071211002351/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-4.html Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930]
Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Two-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 558.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20081014072042/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743178,00.html "At Lake Placid"]. Time. 15 February 1932.
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