Bernhard Germeshausen
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nation | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 21st August 1951 (age 69) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Heiligenstadt , Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Graduated sports teacher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 )
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SURNAME | Germeshausen, Bernhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bobsleigh pilot |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heiligenstadt |