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| Full name | Francis William Tyler | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1904-12-11)11 December 1904 Lake Placid, New York, USA | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 April 1956(1956-04-11) (aged 51) Lake Placid, New York, USA | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||
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Francis William Tyler (December 11, 1904 – April 11, 1956) was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the four-man event at St. Moritz in 1948.
After the end of each bobsled run, Tyler was known for lighting up a cigarette to smoke, and was even depicted in an advertisement for Camel cigarettes in 1949.
He died of a heart attack in 1956.
References
- "Burning up the Ice". Bunksplace. Archived from the original on December 13, 2004.
- 1936 bobsleigh four-man results
- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964 Archived March 23, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- History of bobsleigh featuring Tyler
- "Milestones, Apr. 23, 1956". Time. April 23, 1956.
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- 1904 births
- 1956 deaths
- American male bobsledders
- Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
- Sportspeople from New York (state)
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