Horst Floth
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Bobsleigh | ||
Competitor for  West Germany | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Silver | 1968 Grenoble | Two-man |
| Silver | 1972 Sapporo | Two-man |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold | 1970 St. Moritz | Two-man |
Horst Floth (24 July 1934 in Karlsbad - 6 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.
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
- Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
- BSD announcement of Floth's death - Accessed August 12, 2007 (German).
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
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