Ingo Voge

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Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol , Ingo Voge and Dietmar Schauerhammer at the GDR championships in 1987

Ingo Voge (born February 14, 1958 in Falkensee ) is a former German bobsleigh athlete .

Voge started for the ASK Vorwärts Oberhof and was trained by Raimund Bethge . He was initially a track and field athlete for eleven years and competed for the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam . In 1980 he ran the 100 meter distance in 10.6 seconds. However, an increase was no longer to be expected, which is why his trainer Hermann Burde advised him to stop this sport. Voge took part in a test for pushers in Oberhof in the spring of 1981 and was successful. From 1982 he was pushing Bernhard Lehmann's four-man bobsleigh , with whom he won the silver medal at the 1983 European Bobsleigh Championship. At the world championship in 1983 the team finished fourth. In 1984 he took part in the Olympic Games in Sarajevo and won the silver medal in the Lehmann four-man behind the large bobsleigh of double Olympic champion Wolfgang Hoppe . In the following year, the successes at the Bobsleigh World Championships in 1985 continued, where he won the gold medal in the Lehmann foursome in Cervinia . In the two-man bobsleigh, both came second at the European Championships. In 1986 they were again vice European champions in the four. 1988 Voge took part in Calgary for the second time in the Winter Olympics. He has now started in Wolfgang Hoppe's bobsleigh. They won the silver medal behind the four-man bobsleigh run by the Swiss Ekkehard Fasser . Voge won the last international medal at the 1989 World Bobsleigh Championship in Cortina d'Ampezzo , where the Hoppe four came in third.

Voge was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit in 1984 and 1988 .

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 402.

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personal data
SURNAME Voge, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bobsleigh athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkensee