Ingo Voge

Ingo Voge ( born February 14, 1958 in Falkirk ) is a former German Bobsportler.

Voge launched for the ASK forward Oberhof and was trained by Raimund Bethge. At first he was eleven years track and field athlete, and stood in for the forward ASK Potsdam. In 1980, he ran the 100 - meter track in 10.6 seconds. An increase, however, was not to be expected, why him his coach Hermann Burde advised to quit the sport. Voge took in the spring of 1981, participated in a test for brakeman in Oberhof and had success. From 1982 he was a brakeman in the four-man event by Bernd Lehmann, with whom he won the silver medal already in the Bob Championship 1983. At the World Cup of 1983, the team finished fourth. In 1984 he took as his then wife Petra Voge, a cross-country skier, in the Olympic Games of Sarajevo and won in the Lehmann- four behind the Großbob of double Olympic champion Wolfgang Hoppe the silver medal. In the following year, the success in the Bob World Cup in 1985 continued where in Cervinia he won the gold medal in the Lehmann- four. In the two-man bob both placed second at the European Championships. In four they were again in 1986 Vice European Champion. In 1988 Voge in Calgary for the second time at the Olympic Winter Games. Meanwhile he started in Bob Wolfgang Hoppe. Behind the four-man of the Swiss Ekkehard setters, they won the silver medal. The last international medal winning Voge at the Bob World Cup in 1989 in Cortina d' Ampezzo, where the Hoppe- four came in third place.

Voge 1984 and 1988 awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.