Horst Floth
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's bobsleigh | ||
| Representing File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Silver medal – second place | 1968 Grenoble | Two-man |
| Silver medal – second place | 1972 Sapporo | Two-man |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 1970 St. Moritz | Two-man |
| European Championships | ||
| Silver medal – second place | 1970 Cortina d'Ampezzo | Two-man |
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Horst Floth (24 July 1934 in Karlsbad – 5 October 2005 in Feldafing) was a West German bobsledder who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won silver medals in the two-man event both in 1968 and 1972.[1]
Floth also won a gold medal in the two-man event at the 1970 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.
A hotelier when he was not in bobsleigh, Floth died from cancer in 2005.
References
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- Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932–56 and since 1964 Archived 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
- BSD announcement of Floth's death – Accessed 12 August 2007 (in German).
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
External links
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Categories:
- 1934 births
- 2005 deaths
- People from Karlsruhe (district)
- Sportspeople from Karlsruhe (region)
- Bobsledders at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- German male bobsledders
- Olympic bobsledders for West Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for West Germany
- Deaths from cancer in Germany
- Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
- Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- 20th-century German sportsmen
- German bobsleigh biography stubs
- German Winter Olympic medalist stubs