Alexander Baumann (bobsledder)

Alex Baumann
Alex Baumann, left
Full name	Alex Baumann
nation	Switzerland
birthday	1985
place of birth	Appenzell,  Switzerland
job	Food scientist
Career
discipline	Four and two-man bobsleigh
position	Pusher
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Sochi 2014 Two-man bobsleigh

Alex Baumann (* 1985 in Appenzell ) is a Swiss bobsledder .

Career

After a 100-meter run at an athletics meeting in Herisau in 2006 , Baumann was asked whether he would be interested in working as a brakeman in bobsleigh. Baumann accepted the offer and a little later began to train with the Swiss pilot Beat Hefti . He worked with Beat Hefti until 2010, when he switched to Rico Peter , another Swiss pilot. The two won the Swiss championship in two. Baumann moved back to Hefti in 2012. At the Winter Olympics in 2014 he was allowed to Hefti at the start, although Hefti regular brakeman Thomas Lamparter would have been ready to start. The team won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh.

In June 2016, Baumann sustained an adductor injury while training for the new season , so that he was out for almost four months. In August 2016, his move to the team of pilot Rico Peter, with whom he had already worked in 2011, was announced. Baumann cited the ambitions of the four-man bobsleigh of the pilot Peters as reasons. In December 2016, the recovered Baumann won the Swiss championship title in the two-man bobsleigh with Rico Peter. On the track in St.Moritz, Baumann and Peter beat the two-man bobsleigh with pilot Beat Hefti by 79 hundredths.

On Friday, November 24, 2017, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Russian bobsleigh rider Alexander Zubkov would be banned from participating in the Olympic Games for his doping offenses. In addition, all medals won at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi were stripped of him. In March 2019, Hefti and Baumann were finally awarded the Olympic victory retrospectively.

Web links

• Website of the Hefti team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Winkelbauer: Two-man bobsleigh in bobsleigh - disciplines in bobsleigh. Retrieved August 24, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Carl Schönenberger: Alex Baumann pushes Hefti at the best time in the first training session for the European bobsleigh: "I would have loved to get out" . ( blick.ch [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
3. ^ Hefti's medal hunt with Baumann . In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 14, 2014, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
4. ↑ Marco Ackermann: Start of the Bobsleigh World Cup: Hefti and the Boygroup . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 2, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
5. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: "Out of the blue" . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
6. ↑ Baumann changes to Team Peter . In: Swiss Sliding Bob Tobogganing Skeleton Horn Sled . ( swiss-sliding.ch [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
7. ^ Successful premiere of Rico Peter with Alex Baumann . In: Aargauer Zeitung . December 30, 2016 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
8. ↑ IOC confirms: Hefti will definitely inherit Olympic gold. In: srf.ch. March 28, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 .