FIBT World Championships 1959

The FIBT World Championships 1959 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland for the record ninth time. The Swiss city had hosted the event previously in 1931 (Four-man), 1935 (Four-man), 1937 (Four-man), 1938 (Two-man), 1939 (Two-man), 1947, 1955, and 1957.

Two man bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Italy (Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà)
Silver	Italy (Sergio Zardini, Sergio Siorpaes)
Bronze	United States (Arthur Tyler, Thomas Butler)

Four man bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	United States (Arthur Tyler, Gary Sheffield, Parker Vooris, Thomas Butler)
Silver	Italy (Sergio Zardini, Alberto Righini, Ferruccio Dalla Torre, Romano Bonagura)
Bronze	West Germany (Franz Schelle, Eduard Kaltenberger, Josef Sterff, Otto Göbl)

This was the last American bobsleigh gold medal at the world championships until 2009.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	1	2	0	3
2	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
3	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 nations)		2	2	2	6

gollark: I actually stole this particular quicksort from a r/haskell post talking about it.

gollark: ```lisp (let (partition_rec xs pred acc) (cond ((= xs '()) acc) (true (partition_rec (tail xs) pred (cond ((pred (head xs)) (list (cons (head xs) (head acc)) (snd acc))) (true (list (head acc) (cons (head xs) (snd acc)))) ))) )) (let (qsort xs cont) (cond ((= xs '()) (cont '())) (true (do (let h (head xs)) (let t (tail xs)) (let part_result (partition_rec t (lambda (x) (< x h)) '(() ()))) (qsort (head part_result) (lambda (ls) (qsort (snd part_result) (lambda (rs) (cont (+ ls (list h) rs)))))) )) ))```These all have to be done tail recursively or it could overflow.

gollark: Continuation passing style quicksort in a hilariously slow interpreter.

gollark: It manages *1* second, which is great.

gollark: When writing osmarkslisp™, I cared about performance to the extent that it would sort a list of 200 integers in under 5 seconds.

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