James Bickford (bobsleigh)
Appearance
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Full name | James John Bickford Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lake Placid, New York, USA | 2 November 1912||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 3 October 1989 Rainbow Lake, New York, USA | (aged 76)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James John Bickford (November 2, 1912 – October 3, 1989) was an American bobsledder who competed from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event at St. Moritz in 1948.
Bickford also carried the United States flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics.
At the FIBT World Championships, he won three medals with one silver (Four-man: 1949) and two bronzes (Two-man: 1954, Four-man: 1937).
References
- 1936 bobsleigh four-man results
- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964[dead link]
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
- Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- List of American flag bearers during the Winter Olympic opening ceremonies.
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