Eberhard Weise (bobsleigh driver)

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Eberhard Weise (born August 3, 1953 in Lauta ) is a former German bobsleigh athlete from the GDR . As a substitute for the sprint relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics and as a participant in the four-man bobsleigh at the 1984 Winter Olympics , Weise was the first GDR athlete to be part of the GDR's Olympic squad for both the Summer and Winter Games.

Life

Weise started out as a track and field athlete at SC Cottbus . After the sprinter had set a European indoor record over 100 yards in 9.5 seconds in Senftenberg on January 9, 1974, he also took part in the 1974 European Athletics Indoor Championships , where he eliminated over 60 m in 6.69 seconds in the intermediate run. In 1976, Weise was a substitute for the sprint relay in the GDR's Olympic squad .

From 1977, Weise was active as a bobsleigh athlete for ASK Vorwärts Oberhof . At the European Bobsleigh Championship in 1981 in Igls, he started in Bernhard Lehmann's four-man bobsleigh with Bogdan Musiol and Roland Wetzig and won the bronze medal behind the bobsleds by Bernhard Germeshausen and Horst Schönau in the triple success of the GDR . In the two-man bobsleigh, Lehmann und Weise took fifth place. At the 1982 World Bobsleigh Championship in St. Moritz, Lehmann, Wetzig, Musiol and Weise won the silver medal behind the Swiss Silvio Gibbolina's bobsleigh . In the line-up of Lehmann, Musiol, Ingo Voge and Weise, the Oberhofer won the silver medal behind the Swiss Ekkehard Fasser at the 1983 European Bobsleigh Championships in Sarajevo . The 1984 Winter Olympics also took place on the Sarajevo track. Lehmann, Musiol, Voge and Weise received the silver medal behind the GDR bobsleigh pilot Wolfgang Hoppe and his crew.

The trained car mechanic Weise later worked as a sports teacher at a Cottbus comprehensive school.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft p. 1279

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Four- man European Championships
  2. ↑ Four- man bobsleigh world championships
personal data
SURNAME Wise, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bobsleigh athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauta