Antonio Brivio Sforza (occasionally seen as Marchese Sforza Brivio; 27 December 1905 – 20 January 1995) was an Italian

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and

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der.

Auto racing career

Among Brivio's greatest successes in the field of sports cars include a victory in the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps (1932), two victories in the Targa Florio (1933 and 1935) and a win at the

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(1936). His greatest successes in Grand Prix races were third places in the

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in 1935 and

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in 1936. That year he won the

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for the AAA-sanctioned

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, finishing third. He stopped racing after winning Mille Miglia in his own category in 1952. After the

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, Brivio was a motorsport functionary; he became a member of the Italian Automobile Club and the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), where he participated in the launch of the World Championship.

Bobsleigh career

As a bobsledder, Brivio won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1935 FIBT World Championships in

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. At the

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 February 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Nazi Ger ...

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, he finished tenth in the four-man event and 12th in the two-man event.

Motorsport career results

European Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

1936 bobsleigh two-man results

1936 Olympic Winter Games official report.
- pp. 415, 418.

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