Franz Kemser

Franz and Covers (* November 11, 1910; † 20 January 1986) was a German bobsledder. He won in 1952 in the four-man Olympic gold medal.

Career

Franz Kemser competed for the SC Riessersee. At the World Championships in 1938 at the four-man event, which was held in his home town of Garmisch- Partenkirchen, was Kemser brakeman in Bob Hanns Kilian, together with Werner Wind House and Bobby Braumüller they finished second behind the controlled by Frederick McEvoy British Bob. 1939 won Kilian and Covers, Wind House Lechner and the German Championship. At the World Cup 1939 in Cortina d' Ampezzo Kilian won bronze together with wind House, Hans Schmidt and Kemser. Kilian, and Covers, Wind House and Schmidt won ten years later, the first German championship in the four-man bobsleigh after the Second World War.

For the Olympic Games of 1952, Franz Kemser had qualified in the four-man event with a controlled by him Bob. The training runs in Oslo be Bob and the first German Bob controlled by Anderl Ostler were significantly behind the heavier teams from the USA and Switzerland. The German team lead then reported from the second German Bob and put the heaviest people in a bobsled. The composite in this way with Bob Anderl Ostler, Friedrich Kuhn, Lorenz Nieberl and Franz Kemser then won before the U.S. Bob Stanley Benham and Swiss Bob Fritz Feierabend. After the 1952 Olympics weight limits for two - and four-man bobs were introduced.

1953 Kemser stood as brakeman of Anderl Ostler in the two- and won the German championship. At the World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen occupied the two second behind the Swiss, Felix Endrich and Fritz Stoeckli.