Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics
I. The Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix, a competition was held in bobsled. Eligible were both four - and Fünferbobs. Venue was the natural track Les Pellerin. She had a length of 1464.97 m and consisted of 19 curves. The difference in altitude between the start and finish was 156.29 m.
Bobsled
At the start, there were nine Bobs (39 bobsledder ) from five countries. Competition: February 2, 1924 at 9:42 clock ( 1st run ) and 10:41 clock ( 2nd run ); February 3, 1924 at 12:12 clock ( round 3 ) and 13:01 clock ( round 4 ). Attendance: 1540 ( Day 1 ) and 1854 (2nd day).
The race suffered thaw. The Charles Stoffel ( Switzerland I) controlled Bob Kismet went as a favorite in the race, but crashed in the first run and gave up. II France and Italy II suffered the same fate. Eduard Scherrer ( Switzerland II) went three times best. Scherrer's carriage, which he called Acrobate was before it shares with its extremely wide runners and reached a speed of up to 70.2 km / h The competition was judged at the same time the first bobsleigh world championship.
Paul van den Broeck and Victor Verschueren (both Bob Belgium I) also took part in the ice hockey tournament. Henri Aldebert and Georges André (both Bob France I) also took part in the curling tournament.