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| Full name | Francis William Tyler | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 December 1904 Lake Placid, New York, US | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 April 1956 (aged 51) Lake Placid, New York | ||||||||||||||
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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.
He died of a heart attack in 1956.
