Horst Schönau (born 2 April 1949 in Waltershausen, Thuringia) is an East German bobsledder who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.

Schönau also won a complete set of medals at the FIBT World Championships with a gold (Four-man: 1978), a silver (Two-man: 1981), and a bronze (Two-man: 1982).

Horst Schönau

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Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964

Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931

Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930

1949 births

Living people

People from Waltershausen

German male bobsledders

Bobsledders at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Bobsledders at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Olympic bobsledders for East Germany

Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany

Olympic medalists in bobsleigh

National People's Army sportspeople

Sportspeople from Thuringia

Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Horst Schönau