Jürgen Wiefel

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Jürgen Wiefel (left) at the opening of the Children's and Youth Partakiad 1985

Jürgen Wiefel (born March 10, 1952 in Leipzig ) is a former German marksman and current coach . He won two Olympic silver medals for the GDR with the rapid-fire pistol .

Wiefel started for the club for sport shooting in Leipzig. In 1972 he finished third in the GDR championship, in 1973 he was runner-up and in 1975 he won his first championship title. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he finished second with 596 rings behind his compatriot Norbert Klaar , who had scored 597 rings. After two further championship titles in 1977 and 1978 and the runner-up in 1979, Wiefel competed in Moscow for the second time at the Olympic Games in 1980. With the Romanian Corneliu Ion , the Austrian Gerhard Petritsch and Jürgen Wiefel, three shooters reached 596 rings in the competition, the medals were therefore knocked out in the playoff. In the first jump-off Ion and Wiefel achieved 148 rings, Petritsch received the bronze medal for 146 rings. After Ion and Wiefel had both achieved 147 rings in the second jump-off, Ion won the third jump-off with 148 to 147; Jürgen Wiefel had won his second silver medal. In 1981 Wiefel finished fourth at the European Championships, in 1982 and 1983 he was GDR champion. Wiefel missed his third Olympic participation in 1984 through the Olympic boycott . Jürgen Wiefel was still one of the best GDR shooters with the rapid-fire pistol in the years that followed, but the new man at the GST Club Leipzig, Ralf Schumann , was the dominant shooter in this discipline.

Wiefel is a trained body shop worker. After the reunification , Wiefel played a key role in founding the Sächsischer Schützenbund eV in the federal state of Saxony and was managing director here (1991 to 1994) and then at the Badischer Sportschützenverband (1994 to 1996). As a trainer at the Olympic base in Erfurt, he worked for the Thuringian Rifle Federation from 1999 to 2000 and trained at the federal performance base in Suhl Ralf Schumann (Olympic rapid fire pistol) in preparation for the Olympic competitions in Sydney 2000. This was followed by coaching activities at the German Rifle Federation and the Westphalian Rifle Federation. After being a member of the Leipziger Schützengesellschaft eV (1990 to 1998), Wiefel switched to the "Knauthainer Löwen" shooting club (Leipzig) and continues to be active as a hobby shooter. As such, he won his first German championship title in the rapid fire pistol discipline (age group) with 572 rings, shooting for SV Chemnitz. Ten years later, in October 2012, he won the second championship title for his parent club Knauthain. Now in the air pistol discipline (edition) Class Senior A with 294 out of 300 possible rings. He won tied with three other shooters because of his better last 10 series (96.99.99). From 2006 Wiefel successfully led the German national team as a coach. Rifle Federation in the ISSF disciplines standard pistol and center fire pistol for the European Cup competitions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR championships
  2. a b c d Beck, Hans-Joachim: Sport shooting in the GDR from the beginnings to 1990 . Ed .: Deutscher Schützenbund eV Wiesbaden 2002, p. 478 .
  3. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
  4. Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 4.

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