Gerd Wiltfang

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Gerd Wiltfang receives a trophy from Freddy Heineken (1965)

Gerhard "Gerd" Wiltfang (born April 27, 1946 in Stuhr ; † July 1, 1997 in Thedinghausen ) was a German show jumper .

Career

With the German team he was Olympic champion in jumping at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 . In 1978 he was able to achieve his greatest success in singles when he became world champion on Roman in Aachen . Because of the Olympic boycott, he could not compete in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow .

Wiltfang died of heart failure at the age of 51. At his death he was a third marriage and had two sons from this marriage. He found his final resting place in the cemetery of the Ganderkesee community in the Bookholzberg district . He also had two children from a previous marriage. For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted into the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History in 1998. He was also awarded the silver bay leaf .

successes

Gerd Wiltfang with a novel at the Internationaal Springruiterfestival Rotterdam 1980
  • Olympic games
    • 1972 in Munich : Gold medal team and 16th place in the individual ranking on Askan
  • Olympic substitute competitions of the boycotting states
  • World Championship
    • 1978 in Aachen : 5th place team ranking and gold medal singles on Roman
    • 1982 in Dublin : Silver medal team and 23rd place in the individual ranking on Roman
  • European Championship
    • 1977 in Vienna : bronze medal team
    • 1979 in Rotterdam : silver medal team, gold medal individual on novel
    • 1981 in Munich: Gold medal team
  • German championship
    • German champion 1966, 1971, 1979
  • CHIO Aachen
    • Winner of the 1976 Grand Prix of Aachen on Davos
  • German jumping derby
    • 1979 winner on novel

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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 .

Web links

Commons : Gerd Wiltfang  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ Gerd Wiltfang is dead , Rhein-Zeitung, July 2, 1997
  2. ^ Wiltfang & Co. auf proud Rossen , Die Zeit, August 24, 1979
  3. ↑ Died Gerhard Wiltfang, . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1997 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Obituary for Wiltfang on Welt.de
  5. ↑ The Olympic and world champion collapsed in his house / He leaves behind a wife and two small children: Gold-Reiter Wiltfang - cardiac death at 51 , Hamburger Morgenpost, July 2nd, 1997
  6. ↑ Klaus Nerger: The grave of Gerd Wiltfang. In: knerger.de. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Alwin Schockemöhles hopeful derby candidate Scott was doped: Shadows over paradise , Berliner Zeitung, July 29, 1995
  8. ↑ World Championships Show Jumping 1978, result of individual evaluation
  9. ↑ World Show Jumping Championships 1978, result of the team ranking
  10. ↑ Individual ranking World Championship Show Jumping 1982 in Dublin
  11. ^ Team ranking World Championship Show Jumping 1982 in Dublin
  12. ↑ Database on the homepage of the IOC May 2006
  13. ↑ www.sport-komplett.de May 2006
  14. ↑ CHIO Aachen May 2006
personal data
SURNAME Wiltfang, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiltfang, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German show jumper
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuhr
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1997
Place of death Thedinghausen