Wilhelm Dick

Willy / Willi Dick
Full name	Wilhelm Dick
nation	Czechoslovakia German Empire
birthday	September 10, 1897
place of birth	Weipert ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	1980
Place of death	Wermelskirchen ,  Germany
Career
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1925 Johannisbad Large hill silver 1927 Cortina d'Ampezzo Large hill

Wilhelm Josef Dick , short Willi or Willy Dick , (born September 10, 1897 in Weipert , † 1980 in Wermelskirchen ) was a ski jumper from Czechoslovakia .

Dick was a German Bohemian . He was the son of the painter Wenzel Dick and his wife Marie, daughter of a master carpenter. His paternal grandmother, Anna Hörnig, came from Annaberg .

Career

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Johannesbad (Janské Lázně) in 1925 , he became the first world champion in ski jumping from the normal hill. Since the Main Association of German Winter Sports Clubs of the Czechoslovak Republic did not send skiers to the World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1926 , Dick started for the German Ski Association , presumably with a special permit, since a ski association was normally only allowed to register for immediate nationals .

In 1927 he was able to win the silver medal again in Cortina d'Ampezzo .

After the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia , he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and from there in 1952 moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Nordic World Ski Championships

• Johannisbad 1925 :
  • 1st place: Ski jumping :
• Lahti 1926 :
  • 21st place: Nordic combined
  • ? Rank: Ski jumping : (Rank over 15)
• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1927 :
  • 46th place: cross-country skiing 18 km
  • 2nd place: ski jumping :
  • 10th place: Nordic combined

Web links

• Wilhelm Dick in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weipert's birth book, 1895–1900. P. 236 f.
2. ↑ Aussiger Bote 1967. archiv.pixelprint.info, 1967, accessed on February 20, 2015 .