Wolfgang Zimmerer

nation

Germany

birthday

November 15, 1940

place of birth

Ohlstadt

Career

discipline

Two, four

position

pilot

society

SV Ohlstadt

National squad

since A-squad

status

resigned

Medal table

Olympic medals

1 ×

2 ×

Wolfgang Zimmerer (born November 15, 1940 in Ohlstadt ) is a former German bobsleigh driver and Olympic champion .

He won the gold medal in the two-man bobsleigh and the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh (with Stefan Gaisreiter and Walter Steinbauer ) at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo with brakeman Peter Utzschneider . He won further world titles in 1973 in the two-man bobsleigh and 1974 in the two-man bobsleigh and four-man bobsleigh. At the opening ceremony of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , he was the flag bearer of the German team. There he won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh and the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh (with Peter Utzschneider and Bodo Bittner ) with the athlete Manfred Schumann as a brakeman .

A year before the Olympic Games in Sapporo, he won the pre-Olympic four-man bobsleigh competition on February 13, 1971, ahead of Italy II (De Zordo) and Switzerland I (Wicki).

For his sporting successes he received the silver bay leaf on June 8, 1970 .

Zimmerer is the uncle of ski racers Maria Höfl-Riesch and Susanne Riesch .

Web links

Wolfgang Zimmerer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , World Championships 1970–1979

Individual evidence

↑ time-width-results . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 14, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 56 (pdf , 1.86 MB)
↑ Vita ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of Maria Riesch @1@ 2

German flag bearers at the Olympic Games

summer

The German Imperium German Empire	1896–1904 no standard bearer • 1906 Georg Hax • 1908 Wilhelm Kaufmann • 1912 Karl Halt
German Empire German Empire	1920/24 no participation • 1928 Ernst Paulus • 1932 Georg Gehring
German Empire German Reich NS	1936 Hans Fritsch
Under Allied occupation Germany 1946	1948 no participation
Germany Germany Federal Republic	1952 Friedel Schirmer
Saarland Saarland 1947	1952 Toni Breder
All-German team Germany team all German 1956	1956 Karl-Friedrich Haas / Fritz Thiedemann (equestrian games)
All-German team Germany team all German	1960 Fritz Thiedemann (E) / Ingrid Krämer (S) • 1964 Ingrid Engel-Krämer
BR Germany Germany BR	1968 Wilfried Dietrich • 1972 Detlef Lewe • 1976 Hans Günter Winkler • 1980 no participation • 1984 Willi Kuhweide (E) / Ulrike Meyfarth (S) • 1988 Reiner Klimke (E) / Anja Fichtel (S)
GDR Germany Democratic Republic 1949	1968 Karin Balzer • 1972 Manfred Wolke • 1976 Hans-Georg Reimann • 1980 Kristina Richter • 1984 no participation • 1988 Ulf Timmermann
Germany Germany	1992 Manfred Klein (E) / Nicole Uphoff (S) • 1996 Arnd Schmitt (E) / Birgit Fischer (S) • 2000 Birgit Fischer (E) / Heike Drechsler (S) • 2004 Ludger Beerbaum (E) / Kathrin Boron (S. ) • 2008 Dirk Nowitzki (E) / Katrin Wagner-Augustin (S) • 2012 Natascha Keller (E) / Kristof Wilke (S) • 2016 Timo Boll (E) / Sebastian Brendel (S)

winter

German Empire German Empire	1924 no participation • 1928 Karl Neuner • 1932 Martin Schröttle
German Empire German Reich NS	1936 Georg von Kaufmann
Under Allied occupation Germany 1946	1948 no participation
Germany Germany Federal Republic	1952 Helmut Böck
Saarland Saarland 1947	1952 no participation • 1956 all-German team
All-German team Germany team all German 1956	1956 Andreas Ostler
All-German team Germany team all German	1960 Helmut Recknagel • 1964 Georg Thoma
BR Germany Germany BR	1968 Hans Plenk • 1972 Walter Demel • 1976 Wolfgang Zimmerer (E) / Rosi Mittermaier (S) • 1980 Urban Hettich • 1984 Monika Pflug (E) / Peter Angerer (S) • 1988 Peter Angerer
GDR Germany Democratic Republic 1949	1968 Thomas Köhler • 1972 Klaus-Michael Bonsack • 1976 Meinhard Nehmer • 1980 Jan Hoffmann • 1984 Frank Ullrich • 1988 Frank-Peter Roetsch
Germany Germany	1992 Wolfgang Hoppe (E) / Antje Misersky (S) • 1994 Mark Kirchner (E) / Claudia Pechstein (S) • 1998 Jochen Behle (E) / Gunda Niemann (S) • 2002 Hilde Gerg (E) / Georg Hackl (S. ) • 2006 Kati Wilhelm (E) / Claudia Pechstein (S) • 2010 André Lange (E) / Magdalena Neuner (S) • 2014 Maria Höfl-Riesch (E) / Felix Loch (S) • 2018 Eric Frenzel (E) / Christian Ehrhoff (S)

personal data
SURNAME	Carpenter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bobsleigh driver
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ohlstadt

[1] time-width-results . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 14, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[2] Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 56 (pdf , 1.86 MB)

[3] Vita ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of Maria Riesch @1@ 2