Adolf Koxeder

Adolf Koxeder ( born October 9, 1934 in Innsbruck) is a former Austrian bobsledder.

Life

Koxeder was the mid- 1960s brakeman in the Bob's pilot Erwin Thaler. Already in his first major international assignment he could win at the Bob World Cup 1963 in Igls, together with Thaler, Josef Nairz and Reinhold Durnthaler the bronze medal. He reached his greatest success in the following year. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in his hometown Innsbruck he won with Thaler, Nairz and Durnthaler behind the four-man Canadian Vic Emery the silver medal. 1965 in Cortina d' Ampezzo and 1966 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, the Doppelthaler / Koxeder won the European title in two-man bob. It was the first Bob - European Championships since the first and only discharge in 1929. In four he could win in the inaugural tournament at all in the context of a European Championship 1967 Igls a medal. With Thaler, Durnthaler and Herbert Gruber, he won the silver medal behind the Romanian Großbob controlled by Ion Pantaru.

In 1996 he received the Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria.