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  Olympic highlights - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
Switzerland's Donat Acklin was the brakeman on the winning two-man tandem that successfully defended its Olympic title from the 1992 Albertville Games.
Meanwhile, brother Guido Acklin was in the rear seat of a fellow Swiss squad that took second in the '94 race.
Donat Acklin also claimed a bronze and a silver in the four-man events in 1992 and 1994.
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 kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lillehammer 1994
Russian nordic skier Lyubov Egorova won three more golds and a silver to bring her total to a record-tying six golds.
Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin of Switzerland became the first men to successfully defend a two-man bobsled title, and German four-man bobsled veteran Wolfgang Hoppe medaled in his fourth consecutive Games, also a record.
Speed skater Bonnie Blair also set a record with her third consecutive 500m gold, and Dan Jansen finally won a gold in his final chance in the 1,000m -- setting a world record in the process -- after stumbling and failing to medal in the 500m.
www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w17lillehammer.html   (490 words)

  
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The 30-year-old physical education teacher proved it again Sunday, coming from behind in the fourth and final heat to defeat countryman Reto GÜtschi by.05 of a second and repeat his 1992 victory in the two-man bobsled.
GÜtschi had a lead of.03 of a second before the final heat, but clocked 52.93 compared to 52.85 for Weder, whose pusher, Donat Acklin, is the older brother of Guido Acklin, who pushes for Goetschi.
Italy's Gunther Huber won the bronze, which follows the gold and silver his brothers, Willfried and Norbert, won in luge doubles.
wall.jussieu.fr /dyn/txt/Herald94/1/6111271   (650 words)

  
 Comité olympique canadien
Argent : Reto Goetschi and Guido Acklin, Suisse
Argent : Gustav Weder, Donat Acklin, Kurt Meier, Domenico Semeraro, Suisse
Bronze : Gustav Weder, Donat Acklin, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell, Suisse
www.olympic.ca /FR/hopefuls/p_lueders3a.html   (1061 words)

  
 Olympic Winter Games
The third Winter Olympics, in 1932, were held in Lake Placid, New York State, a town of fewer than 4,000 people.
Faced with major obstacles raising money in the midst of a depression, the president of the organizing committee, Dr. Godfrey Dewey, donated land owned by his family to be used for construction of a bobsleigh run.
Sonja Henie defended her figure skating title, as did the French pair of Andree and Pierre Brunet.
www.noc.by /eng/games/winter_games_eng.html   (3104 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Everything You Need to Know About Bobsled
The 1,700-meter track has an elevation of 113 meters and encompasses 15 curves.
1994 Golds: Two-man, Switzerland (Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin in 3:30:81); four-man, Germany (Harald Czudaj, Karestan Brannasch, Olaf Hampel, Alexander Szelig; 3:27:78).
Critical Moment: Finding the perfect racing line is the key to bobsledding: The driver struggles with a violently shaking bobsled to keep it on the path that gives the fastest time down the run.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/bobsled/articles/bobsled.htm   (1179 words)

  
 Sporting Life - Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Kerrigan eventually came second to Oksana Baiul of the Ukrain.
Switzerland's Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin became the first men to succesfully defend the two man bobsleigh team.
America's Dan Jansen finally won gold after his heartache in 1988.
www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics/history   (2087 words)

  
 CBC.CA - Torino 2006
After taking four-man bronze in Albertville, Hoppe became one of a handful of Olympians to win medals in four consecutive Games by claiming the four-man bronze.
Gustav Weder and brakeman Donat Acklin of Switzerland carved out their place in Olympic history by winning gold in 1992 and later became the first duo to repeat as two-man champions in 1994.
The pair joined Swiss four-man crews to earn bronze and silver at the 1992 and 1994 Games, respectively.
www.cbc.ca /olympics/sports/bobsleigh/history.shtml   (1277 words)

  
 Winter Olympics; Swiss Teams Go 1-2 in Two-Man Bobsled and (Whew!) It Was Close - Free Preview - The New York Times
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - It was the second-closest two-man bobsled finish in Olympics history, and Gustav Weder of Switzerland, who won the gold medal in the 1992 Olympics, won it again.
Weder and his brakeman, Donat Acklin, beat their teammates, Reto Goetschi and Guido Acklin, who were the leaders after Saturday's first two...
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 Games Guide : 1994 Winter Olympics
Pairs skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov repeated their 1988 Winter Olympics A massive Norwegian crowd saw their relay team being beaten by the Italians in the final metres of the cross country skiing relay.
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