Paul Krenz (bobsleigh driver)

Paul Krenz
nation	Germany
birthday	November 19, 1991
place of birth	Berlin, Germany
size	186 cm
Weight	110 kg
job	Federal policeman
Career
discipline	Two, four
position	Pusher
society	Central German SC
Trainer	Norman Dannhauer
National squad	since 2014
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 2 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championship 0 × 2 × 2 × World cups 1 × 2 × 2 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships bronze Whistler 2019 two bronze Altenberg 2020 four Bobsleigh Junior World Championship silver Altenberg 2015 two bronze Winterberg 2016 two silver Winterberg 2017 four bronze St. Moritz 2018 four

Paul Krenz (born November 19, 1991 in Berlin ) is a German bobsleigh athlete and former judoka .

Career

Paul Krenz was enthusiastic about judo from his father Peter Krenz - a judoka who fought in the Bundesliga . In his youth he fought at the JSC 99 herrings and was several times national champion of Thuringia. In the super heavyweight division, he fought in the 2nd Bundesliga for SV Halle .

In 2014 Krenz switched to bobsleigh and started in the European Bobsleigh Cup for the first time in December and finished third in the overall standings. In February 2015 he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in the two-man bobsleigh in Altenberg as a pusher and Christoph Hafer as a pilot. With Richard Ölsner on the steering ropes, in 2016 he won the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh at the Junior World Championships in the two-man bobsleigh in Winterberg for the Mitteldeutscher Sportclub from Magdeburg . At the 2017 Junior World Championships in the four-man bobsleigh in Winterberg, he won the silver medal with pilot Christoph Hafer and in 2018 in St. Moritz with bobsleigh pilot Bennet Buchmüller the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang Krenz was nominated as a substitute.

After Kevin Kuske ended his career, Nico Walther decided on the sprinting strong Krenz as a new pusher for his bobsleigh. He started in the World Cup for the first time in 2018/19. He won his first world cup race in the four-man bobsleigh at the very first start in Winterberg . Thanks to three additional podium places, he finished fourth in the four-man bobsleigh overall. In a pair, Walther and Krenz took third place in the overall ranking. As the strongest sprint athlete both on the side position (4.53 seconds at 35 meters) and on the brakes (5.57 seconds at 45 meters), he qualified for the World Championships in Whistler . On March 3, 2019, he won the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh with pilot Nico Walther.

Web links

• Paul Krenz in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sandra Arm: Tempo in the ice channel. How judoka Paul Krenz became a successful bobsleigh pusher. In: www.meinanzeiger.de. Mediengruppe Thüringen, February 13, 2015, accessed on March 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Dirk Pille: Heringer bobsleigh pusher Paul Krenz celebrates his first World Cup victory. In: Thuringian General. Mediengruppe Thüringen, December 17, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Daniel Hübner: Krenz from the MSC depends on his hunters. In: www.volksstimme.de. Mediengruppe Magdeburg, December 25, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2019 .