Giacomo Conti joined the Italian Air Force during World War II and reached the rank of major. He was selected for the Italian bobsleigh team through a series of tests carried out in the Air Force. After trying various combinations, a two-man crew was formed with Lamberto Dalla Costa and the combination worked immediately. Conti trained and raced mostly on the track in Cortina d’Ampezzo. At the 1956 Winter Olympics he used his home advantage and won the gold medal in the two-man bob as team Italia I, together with Dalla Costa, defeated the legendary Eugenio Monti. His last international appearance was finishing fourth in the 1957 World Championship. In his later life he ran an ice cream parlor in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Year of birth also seen as 1924.
Italy