Josef Sterff

Josef Sterff
nation	BR Germany
birthday	January 2, 1935
place of birth	Seeshaupt ,  German Empire
size	167 cm
Weight	85 kg
job	Butcher
date of death	September 7, 2015
Career
society	SV Ohlstadt
National squad	since 1958
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 1958 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Four-man bobsleigh bronze 1959 St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh gold 1962 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Four-man bobsleigh

Josef Sterff (born January 2, 1935 in Seeshaupt ; † September 7, 2015 ) was a German bobsledder .

Career

Josef Sterff comes from Ohlstadt in Upper Bavaria , a municipality in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district , and was a butcher by profession. Since Ohlstadt is one of the communities in which winter sports, especially bobsleigh, plays an important role, Josef Sterff was also interested in this sport. He became a member of SV Ohlstadt and chose the four-man bobsleigh as his preferred discipline within bobsleigh. He became a member of Franz Schelle's team , with whom he soon took part in national and international competitions. The first great success was second place in the four-man bobsleigh at the German Championships in 1958 with Schelle, Eduard Kaltenberger , Sterff and Otto Göbl . The nomination for the bobsleigh world championships in 1958 justified the four with winning the runner-up world championship behind the bobsleigh Germany I with Hans Rösch . Third place followed and won a bronze medal at the 1959 Bobsleigh World Championships in St. Moritz with Schelle, Sterff, Hartl Geiger and Göbl. In 1962, Schelle's bobsleigh team was particularly successful; First they became German champions and then they succeeded in the line-up of Schelle, Sterff, Ludwig Siebert and Göbl at the four-man bobsleigh championships held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and thus won the gold medal. They defended the German championship title in 1963. Another highlight of his career were the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , with his pilot Franz Schelle and the pushers Otto Göbl and Ludwig Siebert he finished fifth in the Germany I bobsleigh, with the fastest time in the second run.

For winning the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh, Sterff and the team were awarded the silver laurel leaf by Federal President Heinrich Lübke on January 30, 1962 .

Web links

• Josef Sterff in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef Sterff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ List of German four-man bobsleigh champions, 1958
3. ↑ ^{a b} Bobgeschichte and history of Olympic bobsled on Riessersee. Bobsleigh department of SC Riessersee, accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
4. ^ List of world champions in bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh, 1959
5. ↑ List of world champions, four-man bobsleigh, 1962, men
6. ↑ Chronicle - Bayerischer Bob- und Schlittensportverband eV 1948–1998. (PDF) Bayerischer Bob- und Schlittensportverband eV, p. 9 , accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 -