Andreas Kirchner
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Andreas Kirchner(17 August 1953 – 10 November 2010) was anEast Germanhammer throwerandbob pusherfor record holderWolfgang Hoppe.
He competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in twoWinter Olympics,he won two medals in the four-man with a gold in1984and a bronze in1980.He was born inErlbach-Kirchberg,Saxony.
Kirchner also won two medals in the two-man event at theFIBT World Championshipswith a silver in1981and a bronze in1982.
On 15 November 2010 he was found dead in his apartment inSuhl,Thuringiawhere he worked as a teacher.[1]He was 57.
References
[edit]- ^Andreas Kirchner found dead in SuhlSüddeutsche.de(in German)
External links
[edit]- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964Archived23 March 2019 at theWayback Machine
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;Mallon, Bill;et al."Andreas Kirchner".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Sports Reference LLC.Archived fromthe originalon 18 April 2020.
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