Wolfgang Weise (volleyball player)

Wolfgang Weise
portrait
Date of birth	June 12, 1949
place of birth	Leipzig , Soviet occupation zone
size	1.77 m
position	passing
societies
-1963 1963-198x	Großdeuben SC Leipzig
National team
1969-1976	GDR national team
successes
1969-1976 1969 1970 1971 1972	GDR master Winner World Cup GDR Winner World Cup Bulgaria 4th place European Championship Italy Silver Olympic Games Munich
As of April 13, 2015

Wolfgang Weise (born June 12, 1949 in Leipzig ) is a former volleyball player from the GDR .

Weise began volleyball in Großdeuben and moved to SC Leipzig in 1963 . The 1.77 m tall player won the GDR championship from 1969 to 1976.

Weise went through the youth and junior national team and belonged to the GDR national team from 1969 . In 1969 he won the Volleyball World Cup and the following year he was there when the title was won at the 1970 World Cup in Bulgaria. After a fourth place at the European Championships in 1971 , the GDR team reached the final at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and received the silver medal after the final defeat against the Japanese team .

After completing his studies, the trained locomotive fitter was Pedagogical Director at the Leipzig Institute for Foreign Studies.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , pp. 505-506.

Web links

• Wolfgang Weise in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Forgotten high flyers (PDF file; 548 KByte)
• Volleyball world champion
• GDR champions in volleyball