Manfred Schumann (bobsledder)

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Manfred Schumann

Manfred Schumann (born February 7, 1951 in Hanover ) is a former German athlete and bobsleigh driver . He was the first athlete to do both sports at the same time from 1973 to 1979 and is one of the few German athletes who took part in both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. In bobsleigh, he won two Olympic medals and a world champion title and was multiple German champion.

Manfred Schumann began athletics at TuS Wunstorf and became a German youth champion in 1967 and 1968, he started in 1971 and 1972 for Bayer 04 Leverkusen , was at USC Mainz from 1973 to 1977 and then returned to his hometown of Wunstorf. As a bobsledder, he competed for SV Ohlstadt . With a height of 1.86 m, his competition weight was 86 kg.

athletics

Schumann won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Junior Championships in 1970 , in which Schumann was the starting runner and Franz-Peter Hofmeister was the final runner. In 1971 he joined the European Championships in Helsinki in the 110-meter hurdles and made it to the intermediate run. At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Grenoble in 1972 , he finished second over 50 meter hurdles behind the French Guy Drut . In Munich at the 1972 Summer Olympics , Schumann was eliminated in advance. At the European Indoor Championships in San Sebastián in 1977 , Schumann once again finished fifth in the hurdles. Manfred Schumann received the Silver Laurel Leaf award for his sporting successes in 1974 and 1976 .

Silver bay leaf

After he had already finished third in the German championships in the 110-meter hurdles in 1970, Schumann won the title in 1971 and 1974, and in 1972 he finished third again. In the hall, Schumann was German champion over the hurdles four times, namely from 1972 to 1974 and then again in 1977. In 1972 and 1973 Schumann was also runner-up in the indoor sprint. During his athletic career, Schumann had four Achilles tendon avulsions (twice in 1975, 1977 and 1979), each time throwing him back in his preparations. With the fourth Achilles tendon avulsion, he officially ended his career as an athlete in 1979. But he stepped on the track again as a substitute to support his club MTV Herrenhausen at the state championships in the all-around competition in 1982 in Hanover. After a good first day, Schumann became regional champion of Lower Saxony in the decathlon, despite a poor performance in the 1,500 meter run. His best times are 10.2 s over 100 meters and 13.6 s over 110 meter hurdles.

Bobsleigh

At the beginning of the 1970s, some bobsleigh nations tried to win athletes for bobsleigh, in the Federal Republic of Germany Manfred Schumann was one of the pioneers.

FIS World Championships Gold Medal

In 1974 he won the four-man bobsleigh title at the Bobsleigh World Championship together with pilots Wolfgang Zimmerer , Peter Utzschneider and Albert Wurzer . Two bobsleighs from Germany won the 1976 European Bobsleigh Championships in St. Moritz. Stefan Gaisreiter won the title ahead of Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider, Bodo Bittner and Manfred Schumann, while the bronze went to Erich Schärer from Switzerland. At the 1976 Winter Olympics , Manfred Schumann won the silver medal for Wolfgang Zimmerer in the two-man bobsleigh behind Meinhard Nehmer and Bernhard Germeshausen . In the four-man bobsleigh, Zimmerer, Utzschneider, Bittner and Schumann won bronze behind the GDR bobsleigh controlled by Meinhard Nehmer and behind Erich Schärer.

At the 1977 Bobsleigh World Championship , Schumann won bronze as a pusher for Stefan Gaisreiter behind the Swiss bobsleighs by Hans Hiltebrand and Fritz Lüdi . In 1979 he and Gaisreiter won silver behind Erich Schärer and Josef Benz , whereby Schumann injured himself in the third run and was unable to start in the fourth run . Fritz Ohlwärter stepped in for him .

Schumann was German champion in the two-man bobsleigh in 1974 and 1977, and in the four-man bobsleigh in 1978 and 1979.

Boxing

The boxing association of Lower Saxony elected him president in 2018. His tasks for the coming years were to promote boxing and turn it into a school sport.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )

Personal bests

  • 100 m : 10.46 s, July 10, 1971, Stuttgart (hand-stopped: 10.2 s, June 12, 1971, Bonn )
  • 50 m hurdles (hall): 6.58 s, March 12, 1972, Grenoble
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.69 s, February 26, 1972, Stuttgart
  • 110 m hurdles: 13.97 s, July 1, 1978, Dortmund (hand-stopped: 13.6 s, May 21, 1972, Bonn )

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personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and bobsledder
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover