Frederick Fortune
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Bobsleigh | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Bronze | 1948 St. Moritz | Two-man | |
| World Championships | |||
| Bronze | 1949 Lake Placid | Two-man | |
| Bronze | 1950 Cortina d'Ampezzo | Two-man | |
| Bronze | 1965 St. Moritz | Four-man | |
Frederick "Fred" Joseph Fortune, Jr. (January 4, 1921 – April 20, 1994) is an American bobsledder who competed from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the two-man event at St. Moritz in 1948. Four years later he finished seventh in the two-man event at the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Fortune also won three bronze medals at the FIBT World Championships with two medals in two-man (1949, 1950) and one medal in four-man (1965).
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- Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
- Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
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