Alex Mann

Alexander Mann ( born November 11, 1980 in Munich) is a German bobsledder.

Man visited in the years 1991 to 1995, the Albert -Einstein -Gymnasium in Munich, before he moved to the Scottish boarding school Glenalmond College in 1995. 1999-2002 he studied at the University of Essex in sports and exercise science. In 2007 he began the study of medicine at the University of Munich. Early success he achieved in athletics, in Scotland, he ran successfully the rugby, later he could even here support the German 7s team in Twickenham and Paris.

Since 2002, Alexander Mann runs the sport of bobsleigh racing. In the junior age (which is in the sport of bobsleigh racing to 27.Lebensjahr ) he could be with Christoph Gaisreiter, Junior World Champion in the 2-Man as well as in 4-man at the Junior World Championships in Winterberg ( 2005). The following season, he could be with Gaisreiter in 4 Bob Vice World Champion ( JWM Igls / Innsbruck 2006). The following season spent man on the team Manuel Machata with which he was able to achieve a 3rd place in the 4 Junior World Championships in Altenberg.

Since 2008, Alexander Mann brakeman in both the two - and four-man of the bob pilot Matthias Hoepfner. Already in his first World Cup race on February 2, 2008 at the bobsleigh track in Koenigssee he celebrated his first World Cup victory in the two-man bob with Hoepfner. Hoepfner had won over 2 years no World Cup races. 10 February 2008 at the World Cup in Winterberg Alexander Mann was much talked about, as he slipped, had big problems when getting into the 4- Bob and the journey finally brought sitting upside down to end. At the World Championship 2008 in Altenberg, 16-17. February 2008, he missed his first pilot, Matthias Hoepfner by 8 hundredths in fourth place in 2 Bob a medal after they were in the first 3 of 4 runs on the third medal rank. In the 4- Bob but they succeeded with the bronze medal 23-24. February 2008, the longed-for success; Matthias Hoepfner it was the first medal ever at the World Championships or Olympic Games.

Alexander Mann scored a consolation for the missed two-man medal on February 17, 2008: With the German national team, he was In the team 's World Cup women and men start in Altenberg Team World Champion 2008, respectively in the two- and on the skeleton sled succession.. The times are added to the overall result. With a lead of 1.78 seconds, the German team won with Matthias Hoepfner and at the sports school Fürstenfeldbruck -Puch as manager employed in the two- man Alexander read before Canada and the United States. On one of the most difficult tracks in the world, the Germans have so used their home advantage and won confidently. The team consisted of record-breaking world champion Kiriasis and Berit Wiacker, Matthias Hoepfner and Alexander in the two- man and the Skeleton aces Anja Huber and Sebastian Haupt.

After Höpfner the following year tore the Achilles tendon and therefore had to give up his career, Alexander Mann moved that same year to bobsled team Angerer. However, at the World Championships in 4 Bob the same season (2009/ 2010) they fell unfortunately in the first race of the World Championships in Lake Placid.

In the 2009/10 season has been a member in the team of Karl Angerer Angerer and participated in the Olympic Games in Vancouver, where he was the 7th place in the 4- bob with hitherto fastest measured speed ( 153.4 km / h ) to achieve.

In the season 2010/2011 managed man with his teammates Gregor Bermbach and Christian Friedrich Karl Angerer behind pilots with Startbestzeit No. 2 in the 4-man World Cup in Koenigssee.