Name Thomas Lamparter Role Bobsledder | Height 1.83 m Weight 100 kg | |
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Olympic medals Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Four-man Similar People Beat Hefti, Martin Annen, Cedric Grand, Martin Putze, Kevin Kuske | ||
Thomas Lamparter (born 9 June 1978) is a Swiss former bobsledder who has competed since 2002. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event at Turin in 2006 as part of the crew of Martin Annen.
Lamparter also won two medals at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz with a gold in the four-man event (piloted by Ivo Rüegg) and a bronze at the bobsleigh-skeleton mixed team event. Lamparter also enjoyed success as a brakeman in two-man competition alongside Beat Hefti, with the pair winning European Championship golds in 2010 and 2013, a World Championship silver in 2013, and Bobsleigh World Cup titles in 2009 and 2012.
In March 2014 Lamparter announced his retirement from competition.
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