Bernhard Lehmann

Bernhard Lehmann with Bogdan Musiol at the start in the two-man bobsleigh at the GDR championships in 1984

Bernhard Lehmann (born November 11, 1948 in Großräschen ) is a former German bobsleigh driver .

Bernhard's father was Helmut Lehmann , coach of the handball league team Traktor Lommatzsch, and so he initially became a field handball player. At the age of 17 he was allowed to play with a special permit for activist Sedlitz and the Cottbus district selection. Professionally, he started an officer career with the NVA . There he won the long-distance competition in 1973, consisting of a 3,000 m run, rope climbing and hand grenade throwing. As a sports officer, the first lieutenant was finally deployed in Oranienburg and in the Magdeburg district . In 1974 he registered with the ASK Vorwärts Oberhof as a bobsleigh athlete and was trained there by Erich Enders .

It only took half a year until he and Jochen Babock finished fifth in the GDR championships and second in the pre-Olympic test in Igls . In 1976 he became a pusher in Meinhard Nehmer's four-man bobsleigh and won the gold medal with it at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and the World Championships in Igls. Then Lehmann became a bobsleigh pilot. In 1983 he won the title at the European Championships in Igls in two. In 1984 he was GDR champion in two. He finished the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in both bobsleigh with his pushing crew Bogdan Musiol , Ingo Voge and Eberhard Weise as a silver medalist behind his compatriot Wolfgang Hoppe . In the year after the games, Lehmann was world champion in the four. At the end of his career he took part again in the Olympic Games in Calgary and won the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh. He was not nominated for the four-man competition, so he announced his resignation.

After the fall of the Wall , Lehmann, who now lives in Winterberg , became the state trainer of North Rhine-Westphalia . Today, for example, Olympic and world champion Sandra Kiriasis trained .

Awards

• 1976 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
• 1986 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1988 - Silver Star of Friendship of Nations

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR. Your successes and biographies . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 235.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ «Last News», subtitle: «Lehmann: Resignation», Sport Zürich, No. 24 of February 26, 1988, page 23.