Nino Bibbia
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Nino Bibbia (15 March 1922 – 28 May 2013) was an Italian skeleton racer and bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s.[1] Born in Bianzone, Lombardy, he won the gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.[2]
He was Italy's first Winter Olympic medalist in any sport, its first gold medalist in the Winter Games, and its first in bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton.[3]
Biography
Bibbia also competed in bobsleigh at those same games, finishing sixth in the four-man and eighth in the two-man event respectively.[2] Bibbia was also involved in other winter sports, including ski jumping, cross-country skiing, and alpine skiing. All told, he earned 231 golds, 97 silvers, and 84 bronzes in his illustrious careerScript error: No such module "Unsubst"..
Turn 10 at Cesana Pariol, where the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton competitions at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place, is named in Bibbia's honor.[4]
Bibbia spent the last years of his life in Engadin, where he died at the age of 91 on 28 May 2013.[1][5]
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- Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928
- Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 558, 560, 577.
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- 1922 births
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- Sportspeople from the Province of Sondrio
- Italian male bobsledders
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- Olympic bobsledders for Italy
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- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics
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- Olympic medalists in skeleton
- Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics
- 20th-century Italian sportsmen