Pierre Musy (25 August 1910 – 21 November 1990) 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 and horse rider. Competing in the four-man bobsled event he won a gold medal 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 ...

and a silver at the

FIBT World Championships 1935 The FIBT World Championships 1935 took place in Igls, Austria (Two-man) and in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Four-man). St. Moritz hosted the four-man event previously in 1931. Two man bobsleigh Four man bobsleigh Medal table References2-Man bo ...

. As an equestrian he competed in the three-day eventing at the

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and finished 32nd individually and fourth with the Swiss team. Musy was the son of

Jean-Marie Musy Jean-Marie Musy (10 April 1876 – 19 April 1952) was a Swiss politician. Affiliated with the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, he was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 11 December 1919 served until 30 April 193 ...

, who was the

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in 1925 and in 1930. He graduated from Collège Saint-Michel and from the

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with a degree in law. From 1931 to 1939 he worked at local and federal banks in Geneva. He took various military posts from 1938 through 1960s, and served as a Swiss military

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in the Middle East (1951–1954) and European countries (1954–1961). Between 1963 and 1967 he headed the Swiss Military Intelligence Service, and after that was appointed as President of

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References

*Wallechinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896–1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 560.

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Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964
* * * * 1910 births 1990 deaths Swiss male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics Swiss male equestrians Olympic equestrians for Switzerland Equestrians at the 1948 Summer Olympics University of Bern alumni Children of presidents Sportspeople from the canton of Fribourg 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub