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Athletes who have won multiple medals (including at least one gold) are listed below.
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Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Fede ...
is an event in the Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...
where a two- or four-person team drives a specially designed sled down an ice track, with the winning team completing the route with the fastest time. The event has been featured since the first Winter Games in 1924
Events
January
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in Chamonix
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, France
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, with the exception of the 1960 games in Squaw Valley when the organizing committee decided not to build a track in order to reduce expenses. Other than that exception, the four-man competition has been competed at every game (in 1928
Events January
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, it was a five-man competition). The two-man event was introduced at the 1932 Lake Placid games and a two-woman event was first contested at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
Events
Medal leaders
Athletes who have won multiple medals (including at least one gold) are listed below.
Men
Women
Elana Meyers Taylor has more Olympic bobsleigh medals than any other woman, but lacks a gold; her five medals comprise three silver and two bronze from 2010 through 2022.Medal table
Sources (after the2022 Winter Olympics
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2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Bei ...
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*2 gold medals and no silver were awarded at 1998 two-man event
*2 bronze medals awarded at 1998 four-man event
*2 gold medals and no silver were awarded at 2018 two-man event
*2 silver medals and no bronze were awarded at 2018 four-man event
Number of bobsledders by nation
See also
* List of Olympic venues in bobsleighReferences
External links
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