Hans Brandner

Hans Brandner
nation	BR Germany
birthday	February 19, 1949
place of birth	Berchtesgaden ,  Germany
size	86 cm
Weight	183 kg
job	Plumber
Career
discipline	Two-seater
society	RC Berchtesgaden
status	resigned
End of career	1980
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 1976 Innsbruck Two-seater  Luge World Championships bronze 1977 Igls Two-seater gold 1979 Königssee Two-seater  European Luge Championships silver 1972 Königssee Two-seater bronze 1973 Königssee Two-seater gold 1977 Königssee Two-seater bronze 1980 Olang Two-seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 1977  Overall World Cup DS 2nd place 1977/78
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-seater 3 0 1

Hans Brandner (born February 19, 1949 in Berchtesgaden ) is a former German luge athlete .

Hans Brandner is a trained plumber and temporarily lived in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden , where he and his family ran a hotel until 2011. He is married and has children. Brandner formed a two-seater with Balthasar Schwarm and competed in three Winter Olympics , in 1972 in Sapporo the two achieved fifth place. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck Brandner / Schwarm won the silver medal behind the East German duo Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn , and at the 1980 Olympic Games they finished the competition in seventh place at the end of Brandner's career.

For this achievement, Hans Brandner and his partner Balthasar Schwarm were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

In 1979 they beat Rinn / Hahn at the World Championships in Königssee , their club mates and long-time competitors Winkler / Wembacher finished third. Two years earlier, Brandner / Schwarm won the bronze medal in Igls . At the European Championships they won gold once (1977) and silver (1972), as well as twice bronze (1973, 1980). In 1978 the duo came second and in 1979 third in the overall World Cup. In 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979 and 1980 the two athletes starting for RC Berchtesgaden became German champions.

successes

World Cup victories

Two-seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 29, 1978	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
2.	Jan. 18, 1979	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	04th Mar 1979	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run

Web links

• Hans Brandner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Brandner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ Petra Sobinger: Wellness Hotel or Asylum Accommodation ? OVB24 GmbH, March 17, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchronik 1974-76: ... 1976 Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf. ...