Heinz Busche

Heinz Busche (born September 6, 1951 in Mönchengladbach ) is a former German athlete and bobsleigh driver who was world champion in the four-man bobsleigh in 1979 .

athletics

Busche started at 1. FC Mönchengladbach and then moved to ASV Köln . From 1975 he started for the SV Jugend 07 Bergheim . Busche took sixth place in the pole vault at the 1970 European Junior Championships with a jump of 4.70 m , and he set his best performance of 5.23 m in 1972. In 1974 he finished second at the German Championships as the best German behind the Australian Donald Baird , who started for Kassel . In addition to the pole vault, Busche was also successful in the sprint, in 1975 and 1977he won the sprint title at the German indoor championships. From 1972 to 1977 Busche competed in 14 competitions in the national jersey, in 1974 he was twelfth in the pole vault at the European Championships in Rome .

Bobsleigh

From 1977 Busche competed for SC Riessersee and SV Ohlstadt in bobsleigh. In 1978 he won the German championship title in the two-man bobsleigh with Toni Mangold , and in the four-man bobsleigh with Stefan Gaisreiter , Hans Wagner and Manfred Schumann . In 1979 Busche also won both titles, in the two-man bobsleigh with Gaisreiter and in the four-man bobsleigh Gaisreiter, Wagner, Busche and Schumann again won. At the 1979 Bobsleigh World Cup , Manfred Schumann was injured in the two-man bobsleigh competition. In the four-man bobsleigh, Gaisreiter drove the bobsleigh with Wagner, Busche and Dieter Gebhard to the world championship title. A year later, Busche competed at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid with pilot Peter Hell . In the two-man bobsleigh, the two finished eighth; In the four-man bobsleigh, Peter Hell, Hans Wagner, Heinz Busche and Walter Barfuss achieved seventh place.

Busche was honored with the silver bay leaf on April 12, 1984.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society. P. 162

Web links

• Heinz Busche in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ World Championships in the four-man bobsleigh
2. ↑ Federal Arch. Sports awards (silver laurel), presentation of the silver laurel leaf ... on April 12, 1984, signature BArch, B122 / 29158