Jens Müller (luge rider)

Jens Müller 1987 in Innsbruck- Igls

Jens Müller (born July 6, 1965 in Torgau ) is a former German luge athlete and Olympic champion .

Jens Müller started for the ASK Vorwärts Oberhof and the BSR Rennsteig Oberhof . From the end of the 1980s until 2002 he was one of the best German tobogganists. The highlight of his career was winning the Olympic Games in 1988 in Calgary . Later he became European champion in Sigulda in 1996 and in Winterberg in 2000 and world champion in St. Moritz in 2000 , and also took numerous podium places at European and world championships.

After his active career, Müller became a trainer and trained, among other things, the skeleton pilot Steffi Jacob . From 2002 to 2018 he was national coach for skeleton at the German Bobsleigh and Sled Association (BSD).

Jens Müller has been an honorary citizen of Ilmenau in Thuringia since 1988 . In the same year he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

successes

World Cup victories

Single seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	10 Mar 1985	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
2.	0Feb. 8, 1987	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
3.	Dec 11, 1988	Sarajevo	Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run
4th	Dec 18, 1988	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
5.	0Dec 2, 1990	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
6th	Nov 22, 1992	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
7th	Dec 18, 1994	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
8th.	Dec 17, 1995	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
9.	Jan. 30, 2000	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
10.	Jan. 14, 2001	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh

literature

• Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Müller, Jens . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Jens Müller in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jens Müller is the new skeleton trainer: His ideas, his goals ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany V., April 19, 2002, accessed June 15, 2015.  
2. ↑ Portrait at Munzinger.de, accessed on June 15, 2015.
3. ↑ Resignation of the national skeleton trainer: The money is not in the ice