Alfons Lütke-Westhues

Alfons Lütke-Westhues (born May 17, 1930 in Westbevern , † March 8, 2004 in Warendorf ) was a German show jumper .

He celebrated his greatest success at the 1956 Olympic Games in Stockholm when he won the Olympic team gold medal together with Fritz Thiedemann and Hans Günter Winkler . For this he received the silver bay leaf on November 21, 1957 .

His older brother August Lütke-Westhues also won Olympic medals in eventing in 1956 .

successes

• Olympic games
  • 1956 in Stockholm: Gold medal team on Ala

swell

1. ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 23, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 71
2. ↑ Database on the homepage of the IOC May 2006
3. ↑ www.sport-komplett.de May 2006

Rhineland's riders - horses ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) April 2004

literature

• Eckhard F. Schröter: The happiness of this earth ...: Life and career of German show jumpers Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1980, ISBN 3-596-23019-5