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{{Short description|Swiss bobsledder (1917–1959)}}
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'''Werner Spring''' (27 March 1917 – 1959) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[bobsled]]der who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. He won two bronze medals at the [[FIBT World Championships]] with one in the two-man event ([[FIBT World Championships 1951|1951]]) and the other in the four-man event ([[FIBT World Championships 1949|1949]]).

Spring also competed in two [[Winter Olympics]], earning his best finish of fourth in both the two-man and four man events at [[Oslo]] in [[1952 Winter Olympics|1952]].

Spring died in [[Zug]], Switzerland, in 1959.

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030930083045/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-2.html Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040225211023/http://www.sports123.com/bob/mw-4.html Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930]
*Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp.&nbsp;558, 560–1.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418102845/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/werner-spring-1.html Werner Spring's profile at Sports Reference.com]

==External links==
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[[Category:Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Swiss male bobsledders]]
[[Category:1917 births]]
[[Category:1959 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Swiss sportsmen]]


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