The town and its village, Lake Placid, were the site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics.
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Competing in two Winter Olympics, he finished fourth in the men's skeleton event at St. Moritz in 1928, and Lake Placid, New York in 1932, he finished fifth in the four-man event and eighth in the two-man event (misspelled Agostini in the two-man event).
Four years later, at the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York, Czech was 7th in the Nordic combined, 12th in ski jumping and 18th in the 18 km cross-country event.
A civil engineer by profession, Homburger was also responsible for the design of the bobsleigh track used for those Winter Olympics; he also did engineering work for Saranac Lake architect William G. Distin in the design of the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid.
Walter Leinweber (1907 – 1997), German ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics
At the 1932 Winter Olympics he and Daniel Armand-Delille finished eleventh in the two-man event