René Schmidheiny
Appearance
René Schmidheiny (born 4 January 1967 in Basel) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the mid-1990s. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he finished seventh in the four-man event.
Prior to being in bobsleigh, Schmidheiny also competed in athletics as a decathlete. He competed in the United States for the University of Arizona and still holds the decathlon records at Sun Devil Stadium in the discus and javelin throws as of 2007[update].
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- 1967 births
- Living people
- Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland
- Swiss decathletes
- Swiss male bobsledders
- Arizona Wildcats men's track and field athletes
- Sportspeople from Basel-Stadt
- 20th-century Swiss sportspeople
- Swiss athletics biography stubs
- Swiss bobsleigh biography stubs