Bolkart finished fourth in the individual large hill at the
1956 Winter Olympics in
Cortina d'Ampezzo and sixth in the same event at the
1960 Winter Olympics in
Squaw Valley. He is best known as being the winner of the
Four Hills Tournament in 1959–60 when he won three of the four events (
Oberstdorf,
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and
Innsbruck) while finishing fifth in the last event at
Bischofshofen. Those three victories were the only ones in his career. ==Death==