Jean Roland Wicki (18 June 1933 – 11 June 2023) was a Swiss

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobs ...

der who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Competing in two

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, he won three medals with one gold (Four-man:

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

) and two bronzes (Two-man: 1972, Four-man:

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

). Wicki died on 11 June 2023 at the age of 89.

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Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070824184428/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=WICKIJEA01 DatabaseOlympics.com profile
Death announcement

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* * 1933 births 2023 deaths Bobsledders at the 1968 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics Swiss male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub