Friedrich Kuhn (bobsledder)
Friedrich "Fritz" Kuhn (* October 24, 1919 ; † January 8, 2005 ) was a German bobsleigh driver . In 1952 he won the Olympic gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh .
Career
Fritz Kuhn started for the Munich bobsleigh club . For the Olympic Games in 1952 , Kuhn qualified as Theodor Kitt's pusher . The two took eleventh place in the two-man bobsleigh .
Anderl Ostler and Franz Kemser had qualified with their bobsleighs for the four-man bobsleigh competition. In the training runs in Oslo, the two German bobsleighs were clearly behind the heavier teams from the USA and Switzerland. The German team management then announced the second German bobsleigh and put the heaviest people in a bobsleigh. The bobsled in this way with Anderl Ostler, Friedrich Kuhn, Lorenz Nieberl and Franz Kemser then won ahead of the US bobsleigh by Stanley Benham and the Swiss bobsleigh by Fritz Feierabend . After the Olympic Games in 1952, weight limits were introduced for two and four-man bobsleighs.
The movie comedy Schwere Jungs by Marcus H. Rosenmüller from 2006 takes up the story of the 1952 Olympic bobsleigh team.
Honors
- Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Silver bay leaf
literature
- Volker Kluge : Olympic Winter Games, the chronicle . Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-328-00631-1
Web links
- Fritz Kuhn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Kluge, page 134, note 40
1924: Scherrer , Neveu , A. Schläppi , H. Schläppi | 1928: Fiske , Tucker , Mason , Gray , Parke | 1932: Fiske , Eagan , Gray , O'Brien | 1936: Musy , Gartmann , Bouvier , Beerli | 1948: Tyler , Martin , Rimkus , D'Amico | 1952: Ostler , Kuhn , Nieberl , Kemser | 1956: Kapus , servant , old , fear | 1964: V. Emery , Kirby , Anakin , J. Emery | 1968: Monti , De Paolis , Zandonella , Armano | 1972: Wicki , Hubacher , Leutenegger , Camichel | 1976: Nehmer , Babock , Germeshausen , Lehmann | 1980: Nehmer , Musiol , Germeshausen , Gerhardt | 1984: W. Hoppe , Wetzig , Schauerhammer , Kirchner | 1988: Fasser , Meier , Fässler , Stocker | 1992: Appelt , Winkler , Haidacher , Schroll | 1994: Czudaj , Brannasch , Hampel , Szelig | 1998: Langen , Zimmermann , Jakobs , Hampel | 2002: Lange , Kühn , Kuske , Embach | 2006: Lange , Kuske , R. Hoppe , Putze | 2010: Holcomb , Mesler , Tomasevicz , Olsen | 2014: Melbardis , Vilkaste , Dreiskens , Strenga | 2018: Friedrich , Bauer , Grothkopp , Margis
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuhn, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuhn, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bobsleigh driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1919 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 2005 |