Wolfgang Danne

Wolfgang Danne
nation	Germany
birthday	December 9, 1941
place of birth	Hildesheim
size	184 cm
Weight	75 kg
date of death	June 16, 2019
Place of death	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Margot Glockshuber
society	SC Riessersee
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Grenoble 1968 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Vienna 1967 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Bratislava 1966 Couples silver Ljubljana 1967 Couples

Wolfgang Danne (born December 9, 1941 in Hildesheim ; † June 16, 2019 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a former German figure skater who started in pair skating .

Danne represented the SC Riessersee . He began his pair skating career at the side of Sigrid Riechmann . In 1963 and 1964 they were third in the German championships . Her best international placings were sixth place at the 1964 European championship and ninth place at the 1964 world championship . Then Danne changed his figure skating partner and from now on competed with Margot Glockshuber . With her he became German pair skating champion in 1967 and 1968 . In the period from 1965 to 1968 Glockshuber and Danne competed in world and European championships . At the European Championships they won the bronze medal in 1966 and the silver medal in 1967 . They won their only world championship medal in Vienna in 1967 , where they were runner-up behind Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov from the Soviet Union. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , the couple won bronze. After the end of their amateur career, Glockshuber and Danne appeared in the ice revue Ice Capades until 1972.

On December 11, 1965, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements .

From 1982 Wolfgang Danne worked as a trainer, first in Frankfurt am Main , later in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He is the first athlete to be sponsored by Deutsche Sporthilfe .

Results pair skating

(until 1964 with Sigrid Riechmann , from 1965 with Margot Glockshuber )

Competition / year	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968
winter Olympics						3.
World championships		9.	11.	4th	2.	Z
European championships	11.	6th	7th	3.	2.	4th
German championships	3.	3.	2.	3.	1.	1.

• Z = withdrawn

Web links

• Wolfgang Danne in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice at trauer.merkur.de
2. ^ Sports report from the federal government to the Bundestag, printed matter 7/1040, page 57.