Werner Seibold

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Werner Seibold (born January 24, 1948 in Tegernsee ; † November 29, 2012 ) was a German sports shooter . He took part in the Olympic Games twice for the Federal Republic of Germany and won a bronze medal. He was the holder of the Medal of Honor of the Bad Wiessee community for his voluntary commitment to the Wiesseer Schützengemeinschaft, the Bavarian curling club and the Bad Wiessee Yacht Club.

Werner Seibold came from a hotel family that provided the hunter of the Tegernsee monastery for centuries . He attended elementary school from 1954 to 1962 and trained as a chef until 1965, when he worked. In 1972 he was one of the torchbearers of the Olympic flame.

He was a sports shooter with the Bad Wiessee shooting club , but had not yet won a national title when he cut ahead of Bernd Klingner , the 1968 Olympic champion, in the eliminations for the Olympic team in 1976 . Together with air rifle world champion Gottfried Kustermann , he took part in the 1976 Olympic Games . In a three-position battle with the small bore rifle , Seibold scored 1,160 rings and won the bronze medal behind the two Americans Lanny Bassham and Margaret Murdock . For this he received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Walter Scheel . In the following years he was a permanent member of the German national team. In 1978 he and the team won the world championship with the air rifle. In 1979 and 1981 Seibold was vice European champion in the prone competition with the small bore rifle. With the large-bore rifle, he also managed to win a European championship in the kneeling position. At his second Olympic start in Los Angeles in 1984 , Seibold only achieved 25th place with the small bore rifle in the prone position.

In 2001 he received a donor heart and died in November 2012. His grave in the Bad Wiessee cemetery is marked on the plaque of honor.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1984

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mourning Werner Seibold. In: Bad Wiessee in view. January 2013, p. 6 , accessed May 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Lorenz Radlmaier: Chronicle of Wiessee . Edited by Hermine Kaiser, self-published in 2014, without ISBN, p. 115.
  3. ↑ Memories of the Olympian Werner Seibold
  4. ^ Schützengesellschaft Bad Wiessee: About us
  5. ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchronik 1974-76: .... 1976 .. Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf.
personal data
SURNAME Seibold, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marksman
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tegernsee
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2012