Friedrich Kuhn (bobsledder)

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Friedrich Kuhn (right) and Oswald Schelter at the GDR winter sports championships in 1953

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

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Kuhn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Volker Kluge, page 134, note 40