Wolfgang Hoppe

Wolfgang Hoppe
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	November 14, 1957
place of birth	Apolda ,  GDR
Career
discipline	Two, four
position	pilot
society	SC Turbine Erfurt ASK Forward Oberhof WSV Oberhof 05
Trainer	Raimund Bethge
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
winter Olympics 2 × 3 × 1 × World championships 6 × 1 × 7 × European championships 4 × 4 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1984 Sarajevo Two-man bobsleigh gold 1984 Sarajevo Four-man bobsleigh silver 1988 Calgary Two-man bobsleigh silver 1988 Calgary Four-man bobsleigh silver 1992 Albertville Four-man bobsleigh bronze 1994 Lillehammer Four-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships bronze 1983 Lake Placid two gold 1985 Cervinara two gold 1986 Königssee two bronze 1987 St. Moritz two silver 1987 St. Moritz four gold 1989 Cortina d'Ampezzo two bronze 1989 Cortina d'Ampezzo four bronze 1990 St. Moritz two bronze 1991 Altenberg two gold 1991 Altenberg four bronze 1993 Igls two gold 1995 Winterberg four bronze 1996 Calgary four gold 1997 St. Moritz four European bobsleigh championships silver 1985 two silver 1985 four gold 1986 two gold 1987 two gold 1987 four silver 1989 two gold 1995 four silver 1996 four
last change: February 15, 2010

Wolfgang Hoppe (born November 14, 1957 in Apolda ) is a former German bobsleigh driver , Olympic champion and current trainer . Since 1999 he has been the national coach of the German female bobsledders.

Athletic career

Wolfgang Hoppe's father Werner was a GDR master of motocross several times , his brother Heinz even made it the GDR's record champion on the off-road motorcycle with 37 titles.

Wolfgang Hoppe began his athletic career in athletics . At SC Turbine Erfurt he tried his hand at first as a decathlete . In 1976 he was runner-up at the GDR youth championships. In 1981, the trained mechanical engineer switched to the bobsleigh, initially as a pusher, because of the lack of prospects in athletics. His club became the ASK Vorwärts Oberhof (after the reunification as WSV Oberhof 05 ), his coach Raimund Bethge .

With his two gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal at the Olympics , the world championship titles in the four in 1984, 1990 and 1997 and in the two in 1985 and 1986, the European title in the four in 1987, the European title in the two in 1985, 1986 and 1987, the German champion in the four and in two in 1994 and as a five-time GDR champion, the Thuringian is one of the most successful bobsleigh drivers. Hoppe, who served as a major in the NVA , won a total of 36 medals in international championships, 17 of them gold. His long-term pushers were Dietmar Schauerhammer and Bogdan Musiol .

Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musiol, Ingo Voge, Dietmar Schauerhammer at the GDR Bobsleigh Championship 1987.

After his victories in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh at the 1984 Olympic Games, he was able to achieve silver medal in both disciplines four years later in Calgary. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Wolfgang Hoppe was the flag bearer of the first all-German Olympic team after reunification at the opening ceremony . For his sporting successes he received the silver bay leaf in 1993 .

In 1993 Hoppe, who was taken over in a sports promotion company of the Bundeswehr after reunification in 1990 , was dismissed because it became known that he had concealed contact with the Stasi when he was hired .

Coaching

In 1998, Hoppe started a career as a coach. Since 1999, the qualified sports teacher has looked after the German bobsleigh riders as national coach. He achieved the greatest success in this position when his athlete Sandra Kiriasis won the gold medal at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin . He is currently in charge of the National Bobsleigh Association.

further activities

Wolfgang Hoppe is a volunteer ambassador for the Children's Hospice Foundation for Central Germany in Nordhausen in Tambach-Dietharz. In the elections to the city council of his hometown Apolda, Hoppe was elected to the city council in June 2009.

Awards

• 1984 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1986 - Gold Star of Friendship between Nations
• 1988 - Silver Star of Friendship of Nations

Olympic successes

• 1984 in Sarajevo
  • Gold in a two-man bob
  • Gold in the four-man bob
• 1988 in Calgary
  • Silver in a two-man bob
  • Silver in the four-man bob
• 1992 in Albertville
  • Silver in the four-man bob
• 1994 in Lillehammer
  • Bronze in the four-man bob

literature

• Short biography for:  Hoppe, Wolfgang (»Hoppfried«) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Hoppe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wolfgang Hoppe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from May 28, 1993: .... With the silver laurel leaf ... Wolfgang Hoppe's four-man bobsleigh team and his fellow riders Bogdan Musiol, Rene Hannemann and Axel Kühn are in Oberhof on Thursday ...
2. ^ Stasi tax affair: "That is unbelievable audacity". In: Spiegel Online . February 1, 2006, accessed February 17, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Christian Schwager: Wolfgang Hoppe, bobsleigh idol, plagues fear of the future. In: Berliner Zeitung. December 28, 1995, accessed February 17, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 27, 1984, p. 3
5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 15, 1986, p. 6
6. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 26, 1988, p. 4