Tino Bonk

Tino Bonk (born March 1, 1967 in Dresden ) is a former German bobsleigh athlete.

Bonk started out as a track and field athlete at SC Einheit Dresden . In 1986 he finished seventh in the shot put at the Junior World Championships . Also in 1986 he set his best performance with the adult ball with 17.92 m. In 1987 he finished seventh at the GDR indoor championships.

Parallel to his athletics career, Tino Bonk began as a push in bobsleigh. Here he started for SG Dynamo Zinnwald , later for the successor club SWV Altenberg . At the 1989 European bobsleigh championships , the GDR four-man bobsleigh with driver Harald Czudaj , as well as Tino Bonk, Karsten Brannasch and Peter Förster, won the silver medal behind the Austrian bobsleigh from helmsman Ingo Appelt . In the same year Harald Czudaj's bobsleigh took fourth place at the 1989 World Bobsleigh Championship . In the last year of the GDR, the four-man bobsleigh with Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Alexander Szelig and Axel Jang won the silver medal at the 1990 World Bobsleigh Championship behind the bobsleigh of the Swiss Gustav Weder .

After reunification , the four-man bobsleigh with Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Alexander Szelig and Axel Jang won the German championship title in 1991 and 1992. The 1991 bobsleigh world championship was held on the Altenberg sled and bobsleigh track , with Czudaj's bobsleigh taking third place behind Wolfgang Hoppe from Thuringia and Gustav Weder from Switzerland. In 1992 Czudaj, Bonk, Jang and Szelig won the title at the 1992 European Bobsleigh Championships . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville, the team finished sixth.

Bonk was a trained electronics technician, but trained as a sports teacher during his sports career. He later worked in police training and won several German police championship titles in the shot put.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society. P. 116

Web links

• Tino Bonk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ European Championships in the four-man bobsleigh
2. ↑ World Championships in the four-man bobsleigh
3. ^ German championships in bobsleigh