Bodo Bittner

Bodo Bittner ( born February 5, 1940 in Berlin, † September 23, 2012 ) was a German bobsledder.

Bodo Bittner grew up in East Germany, but came before 1961 in the Federal Republic. He served in the Armed Forces as a fighter pilot and worked as an athletics coach at the University of Freiburg. He last lived in the community Bötzingen the Emperor chair ( Breisgau - Black Forest ).

From 1974 to 1976 Bittner started as a bobsledder. He played several races in the Nation together with Georg Grossmann. His greatest achievement was winning the bronze medal in the four-man event at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976. In the same year brought the foursome, which included further Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider and Manfred Schumann, the silver medal at the European Championships in St. Moritz.