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Full name | Francis William Tyler | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
Born | Lake Placid, New York, USA | 11 December 1904||||||||||||||
Died | 11 April 1956 Lake Placid, New York, USA | (aged 51)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||
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Francis William Tyler (December 11, 1904 – April 11, 1956) was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the four-man event at St. Moritz in 1948.
After the end of each bobsled run, Tyler was known for lighting up a cigarette to smoke, and was even depicted in an advertisement for Camel cigarettes in 1949.[1]
He died of a heart attack in 1956.