Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh
at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Bobsleigh; at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Dates	27 January – 4 February 1956
Competitors	101 from 14 nations
	← 1952 1964 →

Dates27 January – 4 February 1956

Competitors101 from 14 nations

At the 1956 Winter Olympics, two bobsleigh events were contested.^[1]

Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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Four	men
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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man details	Italy Italy I Lamberto Dalla Costa Giacomo Conti	Italy Italy II Eugenio Monti Renzo Alverà	Switzerland Switzerland I Max Angst Harry Warburton
Four-man details	Switzerland Switzerland I Franz Kapus Gottfried Diener Robert Alt Heinrich Angst	Italy Italy II Eugenio Monti Ulrico Girardi Renzo Alverà Renato Mocellini	United States USA I Arthur Tyler William Dodge Charles Thomas Butler James Lamy

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	1	2	0	3
2	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
3	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Participating nations

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