Bernhard Glass

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'''Bernhard Glass''' (born 6 November 1957) is an East German former luger who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won the gold medal in the men's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Glass also won a bronze medal in the men's singles event at the 1979 FIL European Luge Championships in Oberhof, East Germany.

After his retirement from luge as an athlete, Glass became a luge coach. Among his famous pupils in luge were Silke Kraushaar, Tatjana Hüfner, and David Möller while others who started in luge, but later went to bobsleigh included André Lange and Sandra Kiriasis. In July 2010, Glass became a coach of the Canadian Luge Association.

==References== * [http://www.fil-luge.org/News-Detail.155.0.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=11753&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=45&cHash=c14ee689ee Canadian Luge Association Bolsters Coaching Staff with New German Recruit.] at the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (30 July 2010 article accessed 15 August 2010.) * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221081843/http://www.fuzilogik.com/Sports-Library/Luge/Men-s-Luge-Olympic-Medals.html |title=Fuzilogik Sports – Winter Olympic results – Men's luge |date=21 February 2010}} * {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020223004127/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olluge.shtml |title=Hickoksports.com results on luge and skeleton. |date=23 February 2002}} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325014953/http://www.eiskanal.com/eiskanal-kunstbahnrennrodeln-europameisterschaften.html |title=List of European luge champions |date=25 March 2008}} {{in lang|de}}

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