Alexander Mann (bobsleigh driver)
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| Full name | Alexander Mann | |||||||||||||||
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| birthday | November 11, 1980 | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Munich , Germany | |||||||||||||||
| size | 190 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 107 kg | |||||||||||||||
| job | doctor | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Four - man bobsleigh |
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| position | Pusher | |||||||||||||||
| society | BSC Winterberg | |||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2014 | |||||||||||||||
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Alexander Mann (born November 11, 1980 in Munich ) is a former German bobsleigh athlete .
Career
Mann attended the Albert Einstein Grammar School in Munich from 1991 to 1995 before moving to the Scottish boarding school at Glenalmond College in 1995. From 1999 to 2002 he studied sports and exercise science at the University of Essex . He was able to complete the course with a bachelor's degree in sports and training sciences.
In 2007 he began studying medicine at the LMU in Munich. He achieved early success in athletics , in Scotland he was successful in rugby , and later he was even able to support the German 7-man team in Twickenham and Paris .
Mann started bobsleigh in 2002. At the junior age, which is up to the age of 27 in bobsleigh, he and Christoph Gaisreiter were able to become junior world champion in two-man and four-man bobsleigh at the 2005 Junior Bobsleigh World Championships in Winterberg . In the following season he was Igls' Vice Junior World Champion with Gaisreiter in the four-man bobsleigh . The following season Mann spent in Manuel Machata's four-man bobsleigh team with whom he was able to achieve third place at the Junior World Championships in Altenberg .
Since 2008, Alexander Mann has been pushing both the two-man and four-man bobsled by bobsleigh pilot Matthias Höpfner . In his first World Cup race on February 2, 2008 on the bobsled run at Königssee , he and Höpfner celebrated his first World Cup victory in the two-man bobsleigh. Höpfner had not won a World Cup race for more than two years. On February 10, 2008 at the World Cup in Winterberg, Alexander Mann made a name for himself when he slipped, had major problems getting into the four-man bobsleigh and ended up sitting upside down.
At the 2008 World Championships in Altenberg on February 16 and 17, 2008 he and his pilot Matthias Höpfner initially missed a medal by eight hundredths as fourth in the two-man bobsleigh, after they were third in the first three of four races. In the four-man bobsleigh, however, they achieved the desired success with the bronze medal on February 23 and 24, 2008; for Matthias Höpfner it was the very first medal at world championships or the Olympic Games.
On February 17th, 2008, Alexander Mann received a consolation for the missed two-man bobsleigh medal: With the German team he was team world champion 2008 in Altenberg. With a lead of 1.78 seconds, the German team won with Matthias Höpfner and the Sportschule Fürstenfeldbruck-Puch employed Alexander Mann as a coach in the two-man bobsleigh, ahead of Canada and the United States . The team included record world champions Sandra Kiriasis and Berit Wiacker , Matthias Höpfner and Alexander Mann in the two-man bobsleigh as well as the skeleton aces Anja Huber and Sebastian Haupt .
After Höpfner tore his Achilles tendon at the World Cup in Igls the following year and had to give up his career, Alexander Mann switched to Team Angerer that same year. Unfortunately, at the four-bobsleigh World Championships in the same season, they fell in the first round of the World Championship in Lake Placid .
In the 2009/10 season, Mann is a member of Karl Angerer's team Angerers and took part in the Olympic Games in Vancouver , where he was able to achieve seventh place in the four-man bobsleigh with the fastest speed ever (153.4 km / h). In the 2010/11 season , Mann and his team colleagues Gregor Bermbach and Christian Friedrich made it to second place in the four-man bobsleigh at the World Championships at Königssee behind driver Karl Angerer . In 2011, Mann became the German champion pushing Angerer.
In the Olympic season in Sochi 2014, Alexander Mann celebrated his last World Cup (Königssee) with a medal from the European Championships in the four-man bobsleigh. This bronze medal was Francesco Friedrich's first international men's four-place title with the fastest start time (4.80s) and crowned a successful bobsleigh career.
After all, the medical doctor continued to focus on his academic career and completed his medical degree in 2015. The first employment takes place in the same year in the medical teaching hospital of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in Großhadern . Here Alexander Mann aims to become a specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery . In the course of his training, Alexander Mann acquired additional training as an emergency physician. This was followed by the practice of the emergency doctor activity at the location of the NAW-Mitte (Florian München Mitte 70/1) in Munich.
As part of his orthopedic and trauma surgery training, Alexander Mann switched to the Orthopedic Schön Clinic in Harlaching on January 1, 2019 (Chief Consultant M. Walther). Under the chief physicians Mehren (spine department) and Hermann Mayr (knee, shoulder and hip endoprosthetics), he was able to gain experience in diagnostic and therapeutic areas of spine and knee orthopedics. During this time, he also began training in manual medicine.
Another position finally followed from March 1, 2020, again in the medical teaching hospital of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in Großhadern , and this time in the department of orthopedics and physical medicine. In the department, the focus is primarily on pain therapy, manual and sports therapy, conservative measures. As part of the corona pandemic, Alexander Mann was able to support his colleagues in anesthesia on the ITS3 and ITS2 wards (head physician Zwißler).
Web links
- Alexander Mann in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
- Alexander Mann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Club history BSC Winterberg. (No longer available online.) In: bobclub-winterberg.de. Archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Winter sports: Oh man! Alex, the Munich man in the ice canal. In: Abendzeitung-muenchen.de . November 13, 2008, accessed November 15, 2017 .
- ↑ André Lange leads the skate team for the Olympics. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de . January 18, 2010, accessed November 15, 2017 .
- ^ Bob: First championship title for Karl Angerer. In: t-online.de. January 10, 2011, accessed November 15, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Man, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bobsleigh driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich , Germany |