Dietmar Schauerhammer

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GDR championship March 1985: Dietmar Schauerhammer pushes Wolfgang Hoppe's bobsleigh

Dietmar Schauerhammer (born August 12, 1955 in Neustadt an der Orla ) is a former German athlete and bobsleigh driver . He was a double Olympic champion in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh in 1984 .

Life

He started his career in athletics. In 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1980 Dietmar Schauerhammer was GDR pentathlon champion in the hall. In 1977 he was GDR runner-up in the decathlon and tenth in the all-around European Cup . At the European Championships in 1978 he finished 14th. In 1979 he won the all-around European Cup with the GDR team (single place 8th). The Schauerhammer , which started for the SC Motor Jena , achieved his best performance of 8054 points in 1980. For the Olympic Games in Moscow , however, he could not qualify.

In 1981 he therefore switched to bobsleigh at ASK Vorwärts Oberhof . He was the pusher of Wolfgang Hoppe , with whom he won bronze in the two-man bobsleigh at the 1983 World Bobsleigh Championships. 1984 was the most successful year for the two athletes. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , they won gold in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh - Roland Wetzig and Andreas Kirchner also sat in the four-man bobsleigh . The four-man bobsleigh was voted team of the year in 1984 in the elections for GDR athlete of the year.

GDR championship 1987: Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musiol, Ingo Voge and Dietmar Schauerhammer

In 1985 and 1986 Hoppe and Schauerhammer became world champions in the two-man bobsleigh. In 1987 they won bronze in the two-man bobsleigh and silver in the four-man bobsleigh at the World Championships. In 1988, Schauerhammer was replaced as a pusher in the two-man bobsleigh by Bogdan Musiol due to an illness . However, together with Hoppe, Musiol and Ingo Voge in the four-man bobsleigh , he won the silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary in a competition affected by a sandstorm .

Because of a back injury, Schauerhammer ended his sports career and became an association trainer. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Schauerhammer was found among the doped athletes.

Dietmar Schauerhammer completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic and graduated as a sports teacher. After reunification, he was offered the position of national bobsleigh coach, but he turned it down and found a job in the sports equipment industry.

Awards

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005, published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Schauerhammer, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bobsleigh driver
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Orla