Werner Spring
{{Short description|Swiss bobsledder (1917–1959)}}
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Werner Spring (27 March 1917 – 1959) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. He won two bronze medals at the FIBT World Championships with one in the two-man event (1951) and the other in the four-man event (1949).
Spring also competed in two Winter Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in both the two-man and four man events at Oslo in 1952.
Spring died in Zug, Switzerland, in 1959.
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030930083045/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-2.html Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040225211023/http://www.sports123.com/bob/mw-4.html Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930]
- Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 558, 560–1.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200418102845/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/werner-spring-1.html Werner Spring's profile at Sports Reference.com]
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Category:Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Category:Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Category:Swiss male bobsledders
Category:20th-century Swiss sportsmen
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