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Walter Delle Karth Jr. (Alternate listings: Walter delleKarth, Walter Delle-Karth, born 11 August 1946 in Innsbruck, Tyrol) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. He won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 1973 and a bronze in 1974.
Competing in three Winter Olympics Delle Karth earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Lake Placid in 1980.
In the 1985-86 Bobsleigh World Cup he finished second in the four-man championship.
He has two brothers, Werner and Dieter.
In later years Delle Karth worked as the agent of multiple Olympic, World and World Cup champion alpine skier Hermann Maier. [1]
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