Walter Delle Karth
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| Medal record | |||
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| Silver | 1973 Lake Placid | Four-man | |
| Bronze | 1974 St. Moritz | Four-man | |
Walter Delle Karth (Alternate listings: Walter delleKarth, Walter Delle-Karth) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. He won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 1973 and a bronze in 1974.
Competing in three Winter Olympics, Delle Karth earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Lake Placid in 1980.
In the 1985-86 Bobsleigh World Cup, he finished second in the four-man championship.
Delle Karth later became a public relations spokesperson for alpine skier Hermann Maier, a fellow Austrian. He has two brothers Werner and Dieter.
[edit] References
- 1984 bobsleigh two-man results
- Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
- List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
- Outside magazine.com article on the US ski team at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including Delle Karth
- Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 561-2.
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