Friedrich Waller

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Medal record
Bobsleigh
Gold 1948 St. Moritz Two-man
World Championships
Silver 1947 St. Moritz Two-man
Silver 1949 Lake Placid Two-man
Bronze 1949 Lake Placid Four-man

Friedrich "Fritz" Waller (1916 – February 15, 2004) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. He won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

Waller also won three medals at the FIBT World Championships with two silvers (Two-man: 1947, 1949) and one bronze (Four-man: 1949).

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Olympic champions in two-man bobsleigh
1932: United States - Hubert Stevens & Curtis Stevens * 1936: United States - Ivan Brown & Alan Washbond * 1948: Switzerland - Felix Endrich & Friedrich Waller * 1952: West Germany - Andreas Ostler & Lorenz Nieberl * 1956: Italy - Lamberto Dalla Costa & Giacomo Conti * 1960: Not held * 1964: Great Britain - Anthony Nash & Robin Dixon * 1968: Italy - Eugenio Monti & Luciano de Paolis * 1972: West Germany - Wolfgang Zimmerer & Peter Utzschneider * 1976: East Germany - Meinhard Nehmer & Bernhard Germeshausen * 1980: Switzerland - Erich Schärer & Joseph Benz * 1984: East Germany - Wolfgang Hoppe & Dietmar Schauerhammer * 1988: Soviet Union - Janis Kipurs & Vladimir Koslov * 1992: Switzerland - Gustav Weder & Donat Acklin * 1994: Switzerland - Gustav Weder & Donat Acklin * 1998: Canada - Pierre Lueders & David MacEachern & Italy - Günther Huber & Antonio Tartaglia * 2002: Germany - Christoph Langen & Markus Zimmermann * 2006: Germany - André Lange & Kevin Kuske
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