Wolfgang Hunger (sailor)

Wolfgang Hunger
Nationality:	Germany
Birthday:	July 19, 1960
Place of birth:	Kiel , FR Germany
Size:	181 cm
Weight:	72 kg
Society:	Potsdam Yacht Club
Boat classes:	470 and 505
Medal table
World championships 7 × 4 × 2 ×
Sailing world championships silver 1983 Weymouth 470s silver 1986 Salou 470s gold 1990 Medemblik 470s gold 1991 Brisbane 470s gold 2001 Cascais 505 gold 2003 Malmö 505 gold 2005 Warnemünde 505 bronze 2008 Palermo 505 gold 2010 Aarhus 505 gold 2011 Hamilton Island 505 bronze 2013 Barbados 505 bronze 2014 Kiel 505 bronze 2016 Weymouth 505

Wolfgang Hunger (born July 19, 1960 in Kiel ) is a former German regatta sailor and orthopedist .

biography

After Wolfgang Hunger's father bought an optimist in 1968 , Wolfgang Hunger and his brothers Joachim and Klaus began to gain experience in sailing on the Kiel Fjord . When the family moved from Hanover to Berlin in 1970, the brothers sailed on the Wannsee .

Together with his brother Joachim took Wolfgang Hunger at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and 1988 in Seoul in part. Both times the brothers started together in regattas with the 470 dinghy . However, they missed the medal ranks with places 4 (1984) and 5 (1988). In his third Olympic participation in 1992 in Barcelona , he also took part in the regatta with the 470 dinghy , but this time he started with Rolf Schmidt and finished eighth.

At the sailing world championships , Wolfgang Hunger and his brother won the silver medal with the 470 dinghy in 1983 and 1986. With Schmidt he became world champion in this class in 1990 and 1991. He was world champion seven times with the 505 dinghy .

He won the Kiel Week 21 times .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiel Week 2015 - The Olympic Story with Dr. Wolfgang Hunger. In: YouTube . June 25, 2015, accessed June 15, 2020 .