Emmanuel Hostache

Emmanuel Hostache

Undated picture of Hostache.
Medal record Bobsleigh Olympic Games 1998 Nagano Four-man World Championships 1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo Four-man 1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo Two-man

Emmanuel Hostache (sometimes shown as Emanuel Hostache, 18 July 1975 in La Mure, Isère – 30 May 2007) was a French bobsledder who competed from 1991 to 2000. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with Great Britain) at Nagano in 1998.^[1] Hostache was born at La Mure, in south-eastern France.

At the 1999 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Hostache won a gold in the four-man event and a bronze in the two-man event.

Prior to being a bobsledder, Hostache also competed as a track and field athlete in the shot put and discus throw events.

Hostache died of Ewing's sarcoma, a form of cancer in 2007 after fighting the disease for eight years.

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• 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
• FIBT profile
• French Athletic Federation news of Hostache's death (in French)

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