Kjell Holmström

Swedish bobsledder
Kjell Holmström
Medal record
Men's Bobsleigh
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1953 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Four-man

Kjell Albrekt Oliver Holmström (July 8, 1916 – March 14, 1999) was a Swedish bobsledder who competed in the 1950s and in the 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with West Germany) at the 1953 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Holmström also finished sixth in the four-man event and 15th in the two-man event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

Four years later he finished 13th in the four-man event at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

At the 1964 Winter Olympics he finished eleventh in the four-man event.

He was born in Skellefteå and died in Stockholm.

References

  • 1952 bobsleigh two-man results
  • Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
  • Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.


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