Harald Czudaj

Harald Czudaj
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	14th February 1963 (age 57)
place of birth	Wermsdorf ,  GDR
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Two, four
position	pilot
society	SWC Zinnwald RG Altenberg SC Riesa
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 2 × 2 × European championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championships 0 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1994 Lillehammer four  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 1990 World Bobsleigh Championship two silver 1990 World Bobsleigh Championship four bronze 1991 World Bobsleigh Championship four bronze Bobsleigh World Championship 1995 four European bobsleigh championships gold 1992 four gold 1998 four JWM

Harald Czudaj (born February 14, 1963 in Wermsdorf ) is a former bobsleigh driver who started for the GDR and reunified Germany . At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he won the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh.

Career

Czudaj initially started for SG Dynamo Zinnwald . He won four medals at the Bobsleigh World Championship of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing  - two silver medals in the two and four-man bobsleigh, both in 1990 in St. Moritz for the GDR and two bronze medals in 1991 in Winterberg and 1995 in Altenberg in the four-man bobsleigh for Germany.

Harald Czudaj was twice European champion in the four-man bobsleigh. He won the gold medal for Germany in Königssee in 1992 and in Igls in 1998 . At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he was the coach of the Dutch bobsleigh drivers.

In May 2001, Czudaj went into sporting retirement.

Today Czudaj runs two large sports studios in Riesa and Coswig together with his former trainer Gerd Leopold . As a member of the supervisory board of Wintersport Altenberg GmbH and as Vice President of BRC Riesa, he is still connected to bobsleigh and also drives senior races. At the World Championships in Altenberg in 2008, Czudaj worked as a track bob driver.

State Security staff

Czudaj worked as an unofficial employee with the code name "Ralf Richter" for the State Security of the GDR and prepared reports about the passengers in his sled.

Web links

Commons : Harald Czudaj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Harald Czudaj in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Czudaj ( Memento from February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - Profile at www.databaseolympics.com
2. ↑ World Championships - Men: 2-Man ( Memento from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (archived in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ World Championships - Men: 4-Man ( Memento of August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (archived in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ European four-man bobsleigh championships since 1967 ( Memento from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Czudaj, Harald bei mdr.de ( Memento from August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (archived in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Jörg Winterfeldt: Mielke's avenger unpunished . welt.de. March 22, 2000. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
7. ^ We were all at the Stasi , Der Spiegel , November 23, 1992