Nino Bibbia

Nino Bibbia was an Italian skeleton racer and bobsledder, born in Bianzone, Lombardy, on 15 March 1922. He competed in the late 1940s and won the men's skeleton gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, which made him Italy's first Winter Olympic medalist in any sport and its first gold medalist at the Winter Games. At the same Games he also raced bobsleigh, finishing sixth in the four-man and eighth in the two-man event. He took part in other winter sports too, including ski jumping, cross-country skiing and alpine skiing, and is credited with 231 golds, 97 silvers and 84 bronzes over his whole career. Turn 10 at Cesana Pariol, the track used for the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton events at the 2006 Winter Olympics, is named in his honor. He spent his last years in Engadin, where he died on 28 May 2013 at the age of 91.