Bernhard Germeshausen

Bernhard Germeshausen
nation	Germany
birthday	21st August 1951 (age 69)
place of birth	Heiligenstadt ,  Germany
job	Graduated sports teacher
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 1 × 0 × World championships 3 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Innsbruck 1976 two gold Innsbruck 1976 four gold Lake Placid 1980 four silver Lake Placid 1980 two  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold St. Moritz 1977 four bronze Lake Placid 1978 four silver Königssee 1979 four gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1981 two gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1981 four

Bernhard Germeshausen (born August 21, 1951 in Heiligenstadt ) is a former German bobsleigh pilot .

Germeshausen began his athletic career as a track and field athlete . In 1974 he was fourth in the GDR championships in the decathlon . According to the decathlon table valid since 1985, his best performance of 7,534 points corresponds to 7,386 points.

After switching to bobsleigh , he was first GDR champion in 1975 when he pushed Meinhard Nehmer's two-man bobsleigh . At the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , he won the gold medal in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh, each controlled by takers. Four years later, he took gold again in Nehmer's four-man bobsleigh in Lake Placid . In the two-man bobsleigh, Germeshausen himself drove with Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt as the pusher for the silver medal behind the Swiss bobsleigh by Erich Schärer but ahead of Meinhard Nehmer and Bogdan Musiol , who won bronze.

He was also world champion in the four-man bobsleigh in 1976, 1977 and 1981 and world champion in the two-man bobsleigh in 1976 and 1981, whereby he was also the bobsleigh pilot in 1981.

Germeshausen is a qualified sports teacher and worked at the sports high school in Erfurt.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 , 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published on Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft

Web links

• Bernhard Germeshausen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )