Bodo Bittner
Bodo Bittner 
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 Germany
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| birthday | 5th February 1940 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Berlin | ||||||||
| date of death | 23rd September 2012 | ||||||||
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| discipline | four | ||||||||
| society | BRC Black Forest | ||||||||
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Bodo Bittner (born February 5, 1940 in Berlin ; † September 23, 2012 ) was a German bobsleigh driver .
Bodo Bittner grew up in the GDR , but came to the Federal Republic before 1961. He served in the armed forces as a fighter pilot and worked as an athletics trainer at the University of Freiburg . He last lived in the community of Bötzingen am Kaiserstuhl ( district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald ).
From 1974 to 1976 Bittner started out as a bobsleigh driver. He contested several races in the Nations Cup together with Georg Großmann . His greatest success was winning the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . In the same year the four-man, which also included Wolfgang Zimmerer , Peter Utzschneider and Manfred Schumann , won the silver medal at the European Championships in St. Moritz .
Web links
- Bodo Bittner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- The BSD mourns Bodo Bittner. Obituary on the website of the Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland , accessed on October 15, 2012.
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| SURNAME | Bittner, Bodo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bobsleigh driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd September 2012 |