Tony Nash (bobsledder)

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Tony Nash
Medal record
Bobsleigh
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	1964 Innsbruck	Two-man
World Championships
	1965 St. Moritz	Two-man
	1963 Igls	Two-man
	1966 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Two-man

Antony James Dillon Nash MBE (18 March 1936 – 17 March 2022) was a British bobsledder, born in Amersham, who competed in the 1960s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the gold in the two-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

Nash also won three medals in the two-man event at the FIBT World Championships with one gold (1965) and two bronzes (1963, 1966).

Nash and his brakeman, Robin Dixon, were inducted into the British Bobsleigh Hall of Fame as a result of their success. A curve at the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun is named for both Nash and Dixon.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1969 New Year Honours for services to Winter Sports.^[1]

Nash died on 17 March 2022, at the age of 85.^[2]

References

^ United Kingdom list: "No. 44740". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 December 1968. p. 17.
^ "Tony Nash obituary". The Times. 24 March 2022. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2022.

Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964 Archived 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
British Bobsleigh Hall of Fame featuring Nash
DatabaseOlympics.com profile
Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Two-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 559.

Olympic champions in two-man bobsleigh

1932: Hubert Stevens & Curtis Stevens (USA)
1936: Ivan Brown & Alan Washbond (USA)
1948: Felix Endrich & Friedrich Waller (SUI)
1952: Andreas Ostler & Lorenz Nieberl (GER)
1956: Lamberto Dalla Costa & Giacomo Conti (ITA)
1964: Anthony Nash & Robin Dixon (GBR)
1968: Eugenio Monti & Luciano de Paolis (ITA)
1972: Wolfgang Zimmerer & Peter Utzschneider (FRG)
1976: Meinhard Nehmer & Bernhard Germeshausen (GDR)
1980: Erich Schärer & Joseph Benz (SUI)
1984: Wolfgang Hoppe & Dietmar Schauerhammer (GDR)
1988: Jānis Ķipurs & Vladimir Kozlov (URS)
1992: Gustav Weder & Donat Acklin (SUI)
1994: Gustav Weder & Donat Acklin (SUI)
1998: Pierre Lueders & David MacEachern (CAN)
1998: Günther Huber & Antonio Tartaglia (ITA)
2002: Christoph Langen & Markus Zimmermann (GER)
2006: André Lange & Kevin Kuske (GER)
2010: André Lange & Kevin Kuske (GER)
2014: Beat Hefti & Alex Baumann (SUI)
2018: Justin Kripps & Alexander Kopacz (CAN)
2018: Francesco Friedrich & Thorsten Margis (GER)
2022: Francesco Friedrich & Thorsten Margis (GER)

World champions in two-man bobsleigh

1931: Germany (Hanns Kilian, Sebastian Huber)
1933: Romania (Alexandru Papană, Dumitru Hubert)
1934: Romania (Alexandru Frim, Vasile Dumitrescu)
1935: Switzerland (Reto Capadrutt, Emil Diener)
1937: Great Britain (Frederick McEvoy, Brian Black)
1938: Germany (Bibo Fischer, Rolf Thielecke)
1939: Belgium (René Lunden, Jeans Coops)
1947: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Stephan Waser)
1949: Switzerland (Felix Endrich, Friedrich Waller)
1950: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Stephan Waser)
1951: West Germany (Andreas Ostler, Lorenz Nieberl)
1953: Switzerland (Felix Endrich, Fritz Stöckli)
1954: Italy (Guglielmo Scheibmeier, Andrea Zambelli)
1955: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Harry Warburton)
1957–60: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà)
1961: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
1962: Italy (Rinaldo Ruatti, Enrico de Lorenzo)
1963: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
1965: Great Britain (Tony Nash, Robin Dixon)
1966: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
1967: Austria (Erwin Thaler, Reinhold Durnthaler)
1969: Italy (Nevio de Zordo, Adriano Frassinelli)
1970: West Germany (Horst Floth, Pepi Bader)
1971: Italy (Gianfranco Gaspari, Mario Armano)
1973–74: West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider)
1975: Italy (Giorgio Alverà, Franco Perruquet)
1977: Switzerland (Hans Hiltebrand, Heinz Meier)
1978–79: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Joseph Benz)
1981: East Germany (Bernhard Germeshausen, Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt)
1982: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Max Rüegg)
1983: Switzerland (Ralph Pichler, Urs Leuthold)
1985–86: East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer)
1987: Switzerland (Ralph Pichler, Celeste Poltera)
1989: East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł)
1990: Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber)
1991: Germany (Rudolf Lochner, Markus Zimmermann)
1993: Germany (Christoph Langen, Peer Joechel)
1995: Germany (Christoph Langen, Olaf Hampel)
1996: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann)
1997: Switzerland (Reto Götschi, Guido Acklin)
1999: Italy (Günther Huber, Enrico Costa, Ubaldo Ranzi)
2000: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann)
2001: Germany (Christoph Langen, Marco Jakobs)
2003: Germany (André Lange, Kevin Kuske)
2004: Canada (Pierre Lueders, Giulio Zardo)
2005: Canada (Pierre Lueders, Lascelles Brown)
2007–08: Germany (André Lange, Kevin Kuske)
2009: Switzerland (Ivo Rüegg, Cédric Grand)
2011: Russia (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)
2012: United States (Steven Holcomb, Steven Langton)
2013: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Jannis Bäcker)
2015–20: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis)
2021: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Alexander Schüller)
2023: Germany (Johannes Lochner, Georg Fleischhauer)
2024: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Alexander Schüller)

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