Ingo APPELT

Ingo Appelt attended school in Innsbruck, studying machinery. In bobsledding Appelt won the overall World Cup in the 1987-88 season and was the four-man World Cup champion for the 1987-88 and 1988-89 seasons. He was 1989 European Champion in four-man and won a bronze medal in that event at the 1990 World Championships. After winning the 1992 Olympic title in four-man, Appelt retired from the sport, and took over his father’s jewelry store in Fulpmes. From 1994-2003 he was a member of the Tyrolean Parliament, in which he was elected to the provincial election proposal of the FPÖ. In 1992 Appelt was given the Golden Medal for Meritorious Service to the Austrian Republic.