Wolfgang Hoppe

Wolfgang Hoppe ( born November 14, 1957 in Apolda ) is a retired German bobsledder and current coach. Since 1999 he has been national coach of the German Bobfahrerinnen.

Sports career

Wolfgang Werner Hoppe's father was several times GDR champion in Motocross, his brother Heinz brought it with 37 tracks even for giants of the GDR on the dirt bike.

Wolfgang Hoppe began his athletic career in track and field. The SC Turbine Erfurt, he initially began as a decathlete. In 1976 he was runner-up in the GDR youth championships. In 1981, the trained mechanical engineer, due to lack of prospects at the Athletics in the Bob, first as a brakeman. His club was the ASK forward Oberhof ( after the turn as WSV Oberhof 05), his coach Raimund Bethge.

With two gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal at the Olympics, the World Champion titles in four in 1984, 1990 and 1997 and the two 1985 and 1986, the European Championship title in four in 1987, winning the European Championship in two in 1985, 1986 and 1987, the German Champion in the four and two in 1994 and as a five-time East German champion is the Thuringian one of the most successful bobsledder. Hoppe, who served as a major in the NVA, won at international championships a total of 36 medals, including 17 gold. His longtime brakeman were Dietmar Schauer hammer and Bogdan Musiol.

After his victories in both the two - and four-man event at the Olympic Games in 1984, he could reach four years later in Calgary in both disciplines the silver medal. At the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 Wolfgang Hoppe was standard-bearer of the first all-German Olympic team after reunification at the opening ceremony.

1993 Hoppe, who was acquired in 1990 after reunification in a sports promotion company of the German Armed Forces was dismissed because it was announced that he had kept contact with the Stasi in its setting.

A trainer

Of 1998, Hoppe a coaches career. Since 1999, the qualified sports teachers cared as national coach the German Bobfahrerinnen. The greatest success in this position, he scored when his athlete Kiriasis could win the gold medal at the 2006 Olympics in Turin.

Other activities

Wolfgang Hoppe volunteers his time as an ambassador for the Children's Foundation Hospice Central Germany Nordhausen in Tambach -Dietharz. In the elections to the city council of his hometown Apolda Hoppe was elected in June 2009 in the City Council.

Awards

Olympic success

  • Silver in two-man bobsleigh
  • Silver in the four-man bobsled
  • Silver in the four-man bobsled
  • Bronze in four-man bobsled
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