James Bickford (bobsleigh)

James John Bickford (November 2, 1912October 3, 1989) was an American bobsledder who competed from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event at St. Moritz in 1948.

Bickford also carried the United States flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics.

At the FIBT World Championships, he won three medals with one silver (Four-man: 1949) and two bronzes (Two-man: 1954, Four-man: 1937).

References

1936 bobsleigh four-man results

Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964

Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931

Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930

DatabaseOlympics.com profile

List of American flag bearers during the Winter Olympic opening ceremonies.

1912 births

1989 deaths

American male bobsledders

Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in bobsleigh