Matthias Benesch

Matthias Benesch (2018)

Matthias "Benni" Benesch (born August 28, 1968 in Merseburg ) is a former German bobsleigh driver and current sports functionary .

Career

He trained at the children's and youth sports school (KJS) in Halle and at the SC Einheit Dresden pole vault . In 1987 he switched to bobsleigh at SG Dynamo Zinnwald , where he achieved success in two and four-man bobsleighs until 2003. Benesch was a soldier in the sports promotion group Berchtesgaden for 12 years. As a sergeant major, he ended his sporting career in 2003. In 2005 he made up his Abitur at the Naumburg Armed Forces College and then studied at the Saxony University of Cooperative Education in Riesa with a focus on sports event management and marketing.

Since October 2007 he has been the managing director of Wintersport Altenberg (Osterzgebirge) GmbH , which takes care of the operation of the Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run . The highlights of his work were the hosting of the Bobsleigh World Championship in 2008 and the parallel Skeleton World Championship in 2008 . In September 2018 it was announced that Benesch will move to the top of the Luge, Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association of Saxony at the end of the 2018/19 season and has therefore asked the shareholders to be dismissed as managing director of Wintersport Altenberg (Osterzgebirge) GmbH . The district council of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district approved this request in September 2018. Jens Morgenstern became his successor as managing director of Wintersport Altenberg (Osterzgebirge) GmbH on June 1, 2019 .

Sporting successes

• 6th place at the 2001 Bobsleigh World Championships in a four-man in St. Moritz
• 7th place at the 1997 Bobsleigh World Championships in two-man in St. Moritz
• European champion in four: 2001 at Königssee
• Bronze at the European Championships in 2002 in a foursome in Cortina d'Ampezzo
• World Cup third in four: 2000/01
• German champion in four: 2001
• German runner-up in the four: 1996
• Winner of the Senior European Championship in two in Innsbruck
• 2 × junior world champion in a foursome: 1993 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1994 in St. Moritz

Web links

Commons : Matthias Benesch  - Collection of Images

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Astrid Hofmann: Benesch changes to the association. In: dnn.de. Dresdner Latest News , September 20, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Uta Schirmer: Change of managing director at Wintersport Altenberg GmbH - Jens Morgenstern will take over from Matthias Benesch on June 1, 2019. In: wia-altenberg.de. Wintersport Altenberg GmbH, June 1, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Matthias Benesch in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 24, 2011 ( beginning of article freely accessible)