Career
Competing in three Winter Olympics, Hiltebrand earned his best finish of fourth in the two-man event at Lake Placid in 1980. Following his retirement, he coached Canada"s bobsleigh from 1989 to the 1998 Winter Olympics. Afterwards he became a well known bobsleigh designer.
Hiltebrand is still active in his bobsleigh club in Zurich as of 2007.