Belgian bobsledder (1902–1942)
René Henri Theophile Lunden, Baron de Lunden (2 June 1902 – 3 April 1942) was a Belgian bobsledder who competed in the late 1930s. He won a gold medal in the two-man event at the 1939 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz .[ 1]
Lunden also competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , finishing eighth in both the two-man and four-man events.[ 2]
Lunden joined the British RAF during World War II , was commissioned as a Pilot Officer, and was killed in an air crash while returning from a mission in April 1942 aged 39. His body was repatriated to Belgium after the war.[ 3] [ 4]
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 )