Thomas Florschütz

This article deals with the bobsledder Thomas Florschuetz , for the photographer and artist see Thomas Florschuetz .

Thomas Florschütz
nation	Germany
birthday	February 20, 1978
place of birth	Sonneberg ,  GDR
size	184 cm
Weight	97 kg
job	Law enforcement officer
Career
discipline	Two, four
position	pilot
society	BRC Riesa
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 3 × 3 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2010 Vancouver two  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 2008 Altenberg two gold 2009 Lake Placid team silver 2009 Lake Placid two silver 2011 Königssee two  European bobsleigh championships bronze 2009 St. Moritz two silver 2009 St. Moritz four silver 2011 Winterberg four gold 2012 Altenberg two bronze 2012 Altenberg four silver 2013 Igls two bronze 2014 Königssee two  Bobsleigh Junior World Championships silver 2004 Cortina d'Ampezzo four
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2006
last change: January 19, 2013

Thomas Florschütz (born February 20, 1978 in Sonneberg ) is a former German bobsleigh pilot who competed for the BRC Riesa .

Career

The law enforcement officer, trained by Gerd Leopold , has been bobsleigh since 2001, before he was a luge and won the FIL Summer Cup in his age group around 1997 . In 2004 he was the runner-up in a four-man bobsleigh behind Jānis Miņins in Cortina d'Ampezzo . Florschütz had his breakthrough in the senior division in 2006 in the European Cup , where he won the two-man and four-man competitions, having finished second in the two-man bobsleigh and seventh in the four-man bobsleigh in the previous season. He won two races in two, three in four.

In the 2006/07 season, Florschütz started more often in the World Cup. Several times he was able to occupy good ranks, up to fourth places. In the overall standings, he finished 16th in a two-man and 18th in a four-man. He also took fourth place at his first European championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the four-man bobsleigh. In two he was sixth with Mirko Pätzold . At the final German Championships in Königssee , he won the titles in both bobsleigh classes, after he was third in a two-man in 2005.

In the 2007/08 season he was runner-up in the two-man bobsleigh in Altenberg. In the 2008/09 season he first won three World Cups in Igls, Königssee and Vancouver / Whistler. He also took second place in the four-man bobsleigh and third place in the two-man bobsleigh at the EM in St. Moritz. In addition, he was runner-up in the two-man bobsleigh in Lake Placid for the second time and won gold in the team competition together with Sandra Kiriasis' two-man bobsleigh and the skeleton pilots Frank Rommel and Marion Trott . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Florschütz was one of the favorites. With Richard Adjei as a pusher, he won the silver medal in two behind the second German bobsleigh with André Lange and Kevin Kuske on the Whistler track . In the four, he finished fourth.

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Before the 2014/15 season, Florschütz did not meet the starting time standards of the association and therefore could not take part in the World Cup races. In November 2015, Florschütz announced the end of his career.

Florschütz's team included the pushers / brakemen Richard Adjei , Andreas Barucha , Enrico Kühn , Marc Kühne , Kevin Kuske , Ronny Listner , Mirko Pätzold , Nico Scheler , Sascha Schelter and Daniel Hoch-Kraft .

Florschütz is the younger brother of the luge driver André Florschütz . As a Thuringian police commissioner, he lives in Erfurt . He was a member of the police sports promotion group and works as a sports instructor at the Thuringian Police Education Center in Meiningen .

successes

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh

Four-man bobsleigh

No. date place train 1. Dec 13, 2008  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 2. Jan. 10, 2009  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 3. 0Feb 7, 2009  Whistler Whistler Sliding Center 4th 0Jan. 9, 2010  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 5. 0Dec 9, 2011  La Plagne La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run 6th Nov 17, 2011  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 7th 0Jan. 8, 2012  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 8th. 0Jan. 5, 2013  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run

No. date place train 1. 0Feb 3, 2008  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 2. Nov 22, 2009  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 3. Nov 18, 2011  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run

Web links

• Thomas Florschütz in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spiegel.de of February 22, 2009: Wintersport Kompakt - Florschütz takes silver in the two-man bobsleigh
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bob: Florschütz ends career Sport1.de, November 28, 2015, accessed on November 30, 2015.
3. ↑ Uwe Gerth: Already world champion in racing sleds and wrestling. ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 573 kB) Meininger Tageblatt, January 30, 2008.