Heinz Busche (born 6 September 1951) is a
West German
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bobsled
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Fede ...
der who competed in the late 1970s. He won the gold medal in the four-man event at the
1979 FIBT World Championships in
Königssee
The Königssee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park.
Description
Situated within the Bercht ...
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At the
1980 Winter Olympics
The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
Lake Placid was elected ...
in
Lake Placid, Busche finished seventh in the four-man event and eighth in the two-man event.
References
Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1924*Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 559, 562.
Bobsledders at the 1980 Winter Olympics
German male bobsledders
German male sprinters
Living people
1951 births
Olympic bobsledders of West Germany
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