Candy Bauer

Candy Bauer with the gold medal from the 2018 Olympic Games

Candy Bauer (born July 31, 1986 in Zschopau ) is a German bobsleigh driver who was world champion in 2017 and Olympic champion in four-man bobsleigh in 2018 .

athletics

Bauer began his sporting career as a shot putter at LV 90 Thum, for which he was active even after the name was changed to LV 90 Erzgebirge . At the 2003 World Youth Championships, Bauer finished fifth, and at the 2005 European Youth Championships, he came tenth. His best performance with the adult ball was in 2011 with 19.88 m and in the hall in 2012 with 20.10 m. At the German championships he finished fourth in 2010 , in the hall he was second behind David Storl in 2012 . Bauer also competed at the World Indoor Championships in 2012 , but did not reach the final as 15th in the qualification.

Bobsleigh

In 2013, Bauer switched to bobsleigh. At the BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg he is part of the team around the bobsleigh pilot Francesco Friedrich . He won his first international medal at the European Bobsleigh Championships in 2015 , when Francesco Friedrich and the pushers Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis took third place behind the four-man bobsleigh from Latvia and Russia. At the 2016 Bobsleigh World Cup , Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Gregor Bermbach and Thorsten Margis won the silver medal behind the Latvian bobsleigh. At the 2017 Bobsleigh World Championship on the Königssee artificial ice rink , two German bobsleighs took first place at the same time. In the fourth run, Johannes Lochner's team was able to catch up with the leading bobsleigh with Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis. In 2018, Bauer won silver at the European Championship with a four-man . At the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, Friedrich, Bauer, Grothkopp and Margis won with over half a second ahead of the tied bobs of Korean Won Yun-jong and German Nico Walther .

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society. P. 50/51

Web links

• Candy Bauer in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Bobsleigh team Friedrich , accessed on February 28, 2017.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Portrait at the Bobsleigh Association , accessed on February 28, 2017.
2. ↑ Lochner and Friedrich in the four-man bobsleigh at the same time. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 26, 2017, accessed on August 27, 2020 .