René Spies (born 5 July 1973 in Winterberg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German bobsledder who competed from 1991 to 2006. He won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 2003 FIBT World Championships in Lake Placid, New York.

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René Spies

Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	(1973-07-05) 5 July 1973 (age 50) Winterberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	95 kg (209 lb; 15.0 st)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Bobsleigh
Club	BSC Winterberg
Retired	2007
Medal record Men's Bobsleigh Representing  Germany World Championships 2003 Lake Placid Two-man World Cup Championships 2001-02 Two-man 2002-03 Combined 2002-03 Two-man

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Competing in two Winter Olympics, Spies earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Turin in 2006.

His best finish in the Bobsleigh World Cup was second three times (Combined: 2002-3, Two-man: 2000-1, 2002-3).

Spies retired from bobsleigh to become a television commentator in Germany, but attempted to return to the German national team for the 2007-08 season without success. He announced his retirement from competition on November 1, 2007 which was announced on the FIBT website.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to René Spies.

• 2002 bobsleigh two-man results
• 2006 bobsleigh four-man results
• Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
• FIBT profile (birthdate shown is incorrect)
• Official website(in German)
• List of combined men's bobsleigh World Cup champions: 1985-2007
• List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
• Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 May 2011)

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