Thomas Schroll

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Thomas Schroll (born November 26, 1965 in Hall in Tirol ) is a former Austrian bobsleigh driver who was Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh in 1992 .

Athletic career

The 1.83 m tall Thomas Schroll from the Igls bobsleigh club won his first international medal at the European bobsleigh championship in 1989 , together with Peter Kienast , Franz Siegl and Kurt Teigl he finished third behind the bobsleigh of Austrian Ingo Appelt and the GDR -Bob by Harald Czudaj . In 1990 the European championship took place on the track in Igls and the Austrians achieved a double victory. Peter Kienast, Thomas Schroll, Martin Riedl and Johann Lindner won ahead of Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Redl , Jürgen Mandl and Harald Winkler .

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville, Schroll was part of Ingo Appelt's team. Appelt and Schroll took fourth place in the two- man bobsleigh, while Ingo Appelt, Harald Winkler Gerhard Haidacher and Thomas Schroll won the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh with two hundredths of a second ahead of Wolfgang Hoppe's German bobsleigh , the only Olympic gold medal to date (as of the 2014 Winter Games) for Austrian bobsledders in general.

Two years later, Schroll took part in the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer with Hubert Schösser in the two-man bobsleigh and finished in fifth place. In 1995 Hubert Schösser, Gerhard Redl, Thomas Schroll and Martin Schützenauer took second place at the European Championship behind Wolfgang Hoppe's four. The Schösser team also won silver behind Hoppe's bobsleigh at the 1995 Bobsleigh World Championship .

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