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Swiss bobsledder (1909–1981)
Franz Kapus (April 12, 1909 in Zurich – March 4, 1981 in Zurich) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the 1950s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the four-man event at Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956.
Kapus also won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with one gold (Four-man: 1955) and three bronzes (Two-man: 1955, Four-man: 1950, 1951).
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- 1924:
 Scherrer, Neveu, A. Schläppi, H. Schläppi (SUI)
- 1928:
 Fiske, Tucker, Mason, Gray, Parke (USA)
- 1932: Fiske, Eagan, Gray, O'Brien (USA)
- 1936: Musy, Gartmann, Bouvier, Beerli (SUI)
- 1948: Tyler, Martin, Rimkus, D'Amico (USA)
- 1952:
 Ostler, Kuhn, Nieberl, Kemser (GER)
- 1956: Kapus, Diener, Alt, Angst (SUI)
- 1964:
 V. Emery, Kirby, Anakin, J. Emery (CAN)
- 1968:
 Monti, de Paolis, Zandonella, Armano (ITA)
- 1972: Wicki, Hubacher, Leutenegger, Camichel (SUI)
- 1976:
 Nehmer, Babock, Germeshausen, Lehmann (GDR)
- 1980: Nehmer, Musioł, Germeshausen, Gerhardt (GDR)
- 1984: Hoppe, Wetzig, Schauerhammer, Kirchner (GDR)
- 1988: Fasser, Meier, Fässler, Stocker (SUI)
- 1992:
 Appelt, Winkler, Haidacher, Schroll (AUT)
- 1994: Czudaj, Brannasch, Hampel, Szelig (GER)
- 1998: Langen, Zimmerman, Jakobs, Hampel (GER)
- 2002: Lange, Kühn, Kuske, Embach (GER)
- 2006: Lange, Hoppe, Putze, Kuske (GER)
- 2010:
 Holcomb, Olsen, Mesler, Tomasevicz (USA)
- 2014:
 Melbārdis, Vilkaste, Dreiškens, Strenga (LAT)
- 2018: Friedrich, Bauer, Grothkopp, Margis (GER)
- 2022: Friedrich, Margis, Bauer, Schüller (GER)
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- 1930: Italy (Franco Zaninetta, Giorgio Biasini, Antonio Dorini, Gino Rossi (bobsledder))
- 1931: Germany (Werner Zahn, Robert Schmidt, Franz Bock, Emil Hinterfeld)
- 1933: Not held
- 1934: Germany (Hanns Kilian, Fritz Schwarz, Hermann von Valta, Sebastian Huber)
- 1935: Germany (Hanns Kilian, Alexander Gruber, Hermann von Valta, Sebastian Huber)
- 1937: Great Britain (Frederick McEvoy, David Looker, Charles Patrick Green, Brian Black)
- 1938: Great Britain (Frederick McEvoy, David Looker, Charles Patrick Green, Chris Mackintosh)
- 1939: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Heinz Cattani, Alphonse Hörning, Joseph Beerli)
- 1947: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Friedrich Waller, Felix Endrich, Stephan Waser)
- 1949: United States (Stanley Benham, Patrick Martin, William Casey, William D'Amico)
- 1950: United States (Stanley Benham, Patrick Martin, James Atkinson, William D'Amico)
- 1951: West Germany (Andreas Ostler, Xavier Leitl, Michael Pössinger, Lorenz Nieberl)
- 1953: United States (Lloyd Johnson, Piet Biesiadecki, Hubert Miller, Joseph Smith)
- 1954: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Harry Warburton, Gottfried Diener, Heinrich Angst)
- 1955: Switzerland (Franz Kapus, Gottfried Diener, Robert Alt, Heinrich Angst)
- 1957: Switzerland (Hans Zoller, Hans Theler, Rolf Küderli, Heinz Leu)
- 1958: West Germany (Hans Rösch, Alfred Hammer, Theodore Bauer, Walter Haller)
- 1959: United States (Arthur Tyler, Gary Sheffield, Parker Vooris, Charles Thomas Butler)
- 1960–61: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes, Furio Nordio, Renzo Alverà)
- 1962: West Germany (Franz Schelle, Josef Sterff, Ludwig Siebert, Otto Göbl)
- 1963: Italy (Sergio Zardini, Ferruccio Dalla Torre, Renato Mocellini, Romano Bonagura)
- 1965: Canada (Vic Emery, Gerald Presley, Michael Young, Peter Kirby)
- 1966: West Germany (Toni Pensperger (posthumous), Ludwig Siebert, Helmut Werzer, Roland Ebert)
- 1967: Cancelled to weather conditions
- 1969: West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider, Walter Steinbauer, Stefan Gaisreiter)
- 1970: Italy (Nevio de Zordo, Roberto Zandonella, Mario Armano, Luciano de Paolis)
- 1971: Switzerland (René Stadler, Max Forster, Erich Schärer, Peter Schärer)
- 1973: Switzerland (René Stadler, Werner Carmichel, Erich Schärer, Peter Schärer)
- 1974: West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider, Manfred Schumann, Albert Wurzer)
- 1975: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Peter Schärer, Werner Carmichel, Joseph Benz)
- 1977: East Germany (Meinhard Nehmer, Bernhard Germeshausen, Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt, Raimund Bethge)
- 1978: East Germany (Horst Schönau, Horst Bernhard, Harald Seifert, Bogdan Musioł)
- 1979: West Germany (Stefan Gaisreiter, Dieter Gebard, Hans Wagner, Heinz Busche)
- 1981: East Germany (Bernhard Germeshausen, Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt, Henry Gerlach, Michael Trübner)
- 1982: Switzerland (Silvio Giobellina, Heinz Stettler, Urs Salzmann, Rico Freiermuth)
- 1983: Switzerland (Ekkehard Fasser, Hans Märcy, Kurt Poletti, Rolf Strittmatter)
- 1985: East Germany (Bernhard Lehmann, Matthias Trübner, Ingo Voge, Steffen Grummt)
- 1986: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Kurt Meier, Erwin Fassbind, André Kiser)
- 1987: Switzerland (Hans Hiltebrand, Urs Fehlmann, Erwin Fassbind, André Kiser)
- 1989–90: Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell)
- 1991: Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł, Axel Kühn, Christoph Langen)
- 1993: Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Donat Acklin, Kurt Meier, Domenico Semeraro)
- 1995: Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, René Hannemann, Ulf Hielscher, Carsten Embach)
- 1996: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Sven Rühr, Olaf Hampel)
- 1997: Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Sven Rühr, René Hannemann, Carsten Embach)
- 1999: France (Bruno Mingeon, Emmanuel Hostache, Éric Le Chanony, Max Robert)
- 2000: Germany (André Lange, René Hoppe, Lars Behrendt, Carsten Embach)
- 2001: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Sven Peter, Alex Metzger)
- 2003: Germany (André Lange, René Hoppe, Kevin Kuske, Carsten Embach)
- 2004: Germany (André Lange, Udo Lehmann, Kevin Kuske, René Hoppe)
- 2005: Germany (André Lange, René Hoppe, Kevin Kuske, Martin Putze)
- 2007: Switzerland (Ivo Rüegg, Thomas Lamparter, Beat Hefti, Cédric Grand)
- 2008: Germany (André Lange, René Hoppe, Kevin Kuske, Martin Putze)
- 2009: United States (Steven Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler, Curtis Tomasevicz)
- 2011: Germany (Manuel Machata, Richard Adjei, Andreas Bredau, Christian Poser)
- 2012: United States (Steven Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steven Langton, Curtis Tomasevicz)
- 2013: Germany (Maximilian Arndt, Marko Hübenbecker, Alexander Rödiger, Martin Putze)
- 2015: Germany (Maximilian Arndt, Alexander Rödiger, Kevin Korona, Ben Heber)
- 2016: Latvia (Oskars Melbārdis, Daumants Dreiškens, Arvis Vilkaste, Jānis Strenga)
- 2017: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp, Thorsten Margis) & (Johannes Lochner, Matthias Kagerhuber, Joshua Bluhm, Christian Rasp)
- 2019: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp, Thorsten Margis)
- 2020: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp, Alexander Schüller)
- 2021: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer, Alexander Schüller)
- 2023: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer, Alexander Schüller)
- 2024: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Alexander Schüller, Felix Straub)
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