Wilhelm Dick
German-Czech ski jumper (1897–1980)
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Wilhelm Josef Dick (10 September 1897 – 1980) was a German-Czech ski jumper who competed for Czechoslovakia and later Germany in the 1920s. He won two ski jumping medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in 1925 and a silver in 1927.
Born10 September 1897
Died1980 (aged 82–83)
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At the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he competed for Germany under the name Willy Dick.
He was a Sudeten German. After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in 1952 he moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia,[1] where he died in 1980.
