# Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Four-man

The four-man bobsleigh results at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held on Friday and Saturday, 3 and 4 February 1956.

## Medallists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I Franz Kapus Gottfried Diener Robert Alt Heinrich Angst | Italy (ITA) Italy II Eugenio Monti Ulrico Girardi Renzo Alverà Renato Mocellini | United States (USA) USA I Arthur Tyler William Dodge Charles Butler James Lamy |

## Results

| Rank | Team | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Final |
| Gold | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I | Franz Kapus, Gottfried Diener, Robert Alt, & Heinrich Angst | 1:18.00 | 1:17.19 | 1:17.09 | 1:18.16 | 5:10.44 |
| Silver | Italy (ITA) Italy II | Eugenio Monti, Ulrico Girardi, Renzo Alverà, & Renato Mocellini | 1:17.69 | 1:17.97 | 1:18.13 | 1:18.31 | 5:12.10 |
| Bronze | United States (USA) USA I | Arthur Tyler, William Dodge, Charles Butler, & James Lamy | 1:17.75 | 1:17.87 | 1:18.25 | 1:18.52 | 5:12.39 |
| 4 | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland II | Max Angst, Aby Gartmann, Harry Warburton, & Rolf Gerber | 1:17.41 | 1:17.85 | 1:18.68 | 1:20.33 | 5:14.27 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) Italy I | Dino De Martin, Giovanni De Martin, Giovanni Tabacchi, & Carlo Da Prà | 1:18.10 | 1:18.65 | 1:18.50 | 1:19.41 | 5:14.66 |
| 6 | United Team of Germany (EUA) Germany I | Hans Rösch, Michael Pössinger, Lorenz Nieberl, & Sylvester Wackerle | 1:18.61 | 1:19.04 | 1:19.43 | 1:20.94 | 5:18.02 |
| 7 | Austria (AUT) Austria II | Kurt Loserth, Wilfried Thurner, Karl Schwarzböck, & Frank Dominik | 1:19.37 | 1:19.12 | 1:20.08 | 1:19.72 | 5:18.29 |
| 8 | United Team of Germany (EUA) Germany II | Franz Schelle, Jakob Nirschl, Hans Henn, & Edmund Koller | 1:19.03 | 1:18.84 | 1:19.31 | 1:21.35 | 5:18.50 |
| 9 | Spain (ESP) Spain I | Alfonso de Portago, Vicente Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, Gonzalo Taboada, & Luis Muñoz | 1:18.87 | 1:19.27 | 1:21.37 | 1:19.08 | 5:19.49 |
| 10 | Austria (AUT) Austria I | Karl Wagner, Fritz Rursch, Adolf Tonn, & Heinrich Isser | 1:19.60 | 1:20.74 | 1:19.98 | 1:20.30 | 5:20.62 |
| 11 | Norway (NOR) Norway I | Arne Røgden, Arnold Dyrdahl, Odd Solli, & Trygve Brudevold | 1:20.96 | 1:20.08 | 1:20.45 | 1:20.01 | 5:21.50 |
| 12 | Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain I | Keith Schellenberg, Rollo Brandt, Ralph Raffles, & John Rainforth | 1:21.39 | 1:18.73 | 1:20.42 | 1:21.58 | 5:22.12 |
| 13 | Sweden (SWE) Sweden II | Kjell Holmström, Sven Erbs, Walter Aronson, & Jan Lapidoth | 1:20.58 | 1:20.32 | 1:21.15 | 1:21.13 | 5:23.18 |
| 14 | Romania (ROU) Romania I | Heinrich Enea, Dumitru Peteu, Nicolae Moiceanu, & Mărgărit Blăgescu | 1:21.53 | 1:20.58 | 1:20.64 | 1:20.44 | 5:23.19 |
| 15 | Poland (POL) Poland I | Stefan Ciapała, Jerzy Olesiak, Józef Szymański, & Aleksander Habala | 1:19.95 | 1:20.25 | 1:21.10 | 1:22.19 | 5:23.49 |
| 16 | Sweden (SWE) Sweden I | Olle Axelsson, Ebbe Wallén, Sune Skagerling, & Gunnar Åhs | 1:18.95 | 1:19.98 | 1:22.75 | 1:21.86 | 5:23.54 |
| 17 | Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain II | Stuart Parkinson, John Read, Christopher Williams, & Rodney Mann | 1:20.72 | 1:19.92 | 1:22.51 | 1:20.58 | 5:23.73 |
| 18 | France (FRA) France I | André Robin, Pierre Bouvier, Jacques Panciroli, & Lucien Grosso | 1:20.00 | 1:21.25 | 1:20.95 | 1:21.63 | 5:23.83 |
| 19 | United States (USA) USA II | James Bickford, Donald Jacques, Lawrence McKillip, & Hubert Miller | 1:20.97 | 1:22.47 | 1:21.22 | 1:20.50 | 5:25.16 |
| 20 | Romania (ROU) Romania II | Constantin Dragomir, Vasile Panait, Ion Staicu, & Gheorghe Moldoveanu | 1:21.21 | 1:21.22 | 1:22.37 | 1:23.03 | 5:27.83 |
| 21 | Poland (POL) Poland II | Aleksy Konieczny, Zygmunt Konieczny, Włodzimierz Źróbik, & Zbigniew Skowroński/Jan Dombrowski(*) | | | | | 5:28.40 |
(*) NOTE: Jan Dąbrowski replaced Zbigniew Skowroński after two runs.