He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1953 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Johnson's sled had a fifth place finish at the 1954 championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

A year later at the 1955 championships in St. Moritz, he competed with a broken collar bone and was thrown off the course at Sunny Corner.

[1] Johnson was a native of Rapid City, South Dakota and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1943.

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