Thomas Pöge

Thomas Pöge ( born May 6, 1979 in Potsdam) is a former German bobsledder and former decathlete.

Thomas Pöge is sports soldier in the German army and operates since the age of eight active competitive sports, especially athletics. He won many championship titles on national champion and German championships level. In 1993, he specialized in the discipline decathlon track and field. The most important success of his decathlon career he achieved at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Annecy with second place. Also worth mentioning is the 5th place at the 2001 European Championships in Amsterdam. He achieved his best performance in 2000 with 7853 points.

In 2002, Thomas Pöge for Bobsleigh and starts for the BSR Rennsteig Oberhof. Until 2007 he was a brakeman for André Lange. Almost all of his success he achieved in the four-man event. At the European Championships 2005, he won the silver medal in the Long - four. At the Junior World Championships 2003 ( Bob Andre Zschocke ) and 2004 ( Bob Karl Angerer ) he won four bronze. In the World Cup he won 3 races, 2003 in Calgary and Igls and 2004 in Calgary. In 2005 he arrived in Lake Placid on the second, in Igls and Altenberg to third place. Best Result at German Championships 2008 was the first place in the two- and 2nd place in the four-man event. 2007 moved to Pöge René Spies, who, however, still before the season ended his career due to injuries. Pöge Then moved to the Bob Matthias Hoepfner. With Matthias Hoepfner Pöge Thomas was third in February 2008. At the World Championships in Altenberg Bobsled In 2009, he reached the 3rd place at the European Championships in St. Moritz, after the injury of his pilots Höpfner with the team Angerer. Thomas was then Pöge from 2009 to September 2010 active the bobsleigh team at Angerer. On 13 September 2010 he announced his official retirement from competitive sport.

In October 2010 Pöge began a study to the police commissioner at the University College of the police in the state of Brandenburg Oranienburg.