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Olympics in Cortina. The Swedish four-man bobsleigh team strengthens its side with a cup of hot chocolate after the races. From left: Gunnar Åhs, Ebbe Wallén, Sune Skagerling and Olle Axelsson.
Gunnar Johan Åhs (5 September 1915, Uppsala – 6 May 1994) was a Swedish bobsledder who competed from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1961 FIBT World Championships in Lake Placid, New York.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Åhs earned his best finish of seventh in the four-man event at Oslo in 1952.
Four years later he finished 16th in the four-man event at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
He was born in Uppsala and died in Johanneshov.
References
- Bobsleigh four-man result: 1948-64
- Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
- Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.
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