Gottfried Oliwa

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Gottfried Oliwa is a former German basketball player and today's sports reporter.

Life

Oliwa, who is also known by the nickname “Goofy” in basketball circles, was a student at the Margravine Wilhelmine High School in Bayreuth . The 1.91-meter-man, who often tried to hit the basket with a hook throw in the attack, played in the inside position, he rose in 1976 with the Post-SV Bayreuth in the basketball Bundesliga  . He was part of the Bayreuth team for 13 years. In the 1982/83 season, his converted free throw in the final second of the game against Hapoel Tel Aviv ensured that Bayreuth moved into the group stage of the best 16 teams in the Korac Cup , which at that time meant the biggest European Cup success of a German representative at the time. However, the additional expenses resulting from the following games in the Korac Cup put the club economically strong, contributed to the end of the then USC Bayreuth and its successor club Olympia USC, before the entry of the Steiner brothers saved the Bayreuth team in 1984. Oliwa was part of the squad until 1989 and was involved - albeit not as a top performer - in the great successes at the end of the 1980s (cup winners in 1988 and cup winners and German champions in 1989). In the championship season 1988/89 he was still part of the squad as a training player.

Oliwa, who studied at the Universities of Bayreuth and Würzburg during his basketball career and worked in public relations for the Bayreuth basketball team during his time as a player, worked as a sports reporter for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Dino Reisner: Because Gottfried Oliwa is the man of the records . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 34-36 .
  2. ↑ Norbayerischer Kurier Germany: 111 reasons to love Medi: Book presentation turns into a humorous review - Nordbayerischer Kurier. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Norbayerischer Courier Germany: Historical: wanted to win when nobody - North Kurier. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Wolfram Porr: Basketball in Bayreuth: Everything started as Post SV . April 27, 2017 ( br.de [accessed May 3, 2019]).
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SURNAME Oliwa, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century