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Hans Baumann (bobsleigh)

German bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ5649783 ↗
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Hans Baumann (born 26 December 1932) is a former German bobsledder who competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics. In Grenoble he was a member of the West German four-man bobsleigh team, alongside Wolfgang Zimmerer, Stefan Gaisreiter, and Peter Utzschneider, that finished ninth in the event among nineteen squads. He was born in Munich and was a member of Bobclub München.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hans Baumann (bobsleigh)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.