Horst Müller (luge rider)

Horst Mueller
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	April 10, 1952
place of birth	Zwickau
date of death	March 1, 2011
Place of death	Mittelberg,  Austria
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	SC tractor Oberwiesenthal
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × GDR medals 1 × 1 × 3 ×
Luge World Championships bronze 1974 Königssee singles silver 1975 Hammarstrand Double silver 1977 Igls singles  European Luge Championships silver 1975 Olang Double GDR Luge Championship bronze 1972 Double silver 1974 singles gold 1975 Oberhof Double bronze 1976 singles bronze 1976 Double
last change: end of career

Horst Müller (born April 10, 1952 in Zwickau ; † March 1, 2011 in Mittelberg ) was a German luge athlete .

The Müller / Neumann doubles when they surprisingly won the GDR championship in 1975

Müller was active for SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal and was particularly successful in the 1970s in both single and double sledges. At the 1974 Luge World Championships in Königssee , he won the bronze medal behind local hero Josef Fendt and his East German team-mate Hans Rinn . In 1975 a silver medal was added in Hammarstrand , which he won together with Hans-Jürgen Neumann behind the victorious GDR double Bernd and Ulrich Hahn . The same place was achieved by the Müller / Neumann doubles at the European Luge Championships in Olang in 1975 , where they had to admit defeat to their compatriots Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn . At the Luge World Championships in 1977 in Igls , Müller again won a silver medal behind Hans Rinn.

At the GDR championships in 1972, Müller won his first national medal with a bronze medal, with A. Hahn in a two-seater behind Horst Hörnlein and Reinhard Bredow as well as Klaus Bonsack and Wolfram Fiedler . In 1974 he was second behind Hans Rinn in the single seater, in 1975 he won the doubles title with Hans-Jürgen Neumann ahead of Rinn / Hahn and Hahn / Hahn. In Oberhof the doubles achieved a total time of 1: 29.56 minutes. In the following year it won bronze again behind these two doubles, and Müller also won the bronze medal in the individual behind Rinn and Dettlef Günther .

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• Results of the GDR championships