Wolfram Fiedler
East German luger (1951–1988)
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Wolfram Fiedler (29 September 1951 – 11 April 1988) was an East German luger who competed from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. He won two bronze medals at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, earning them in the men's singles and men's doubles event, respectively.
Fieldler at the 1972 European Luge championships in Königssee, West Germany. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 29 September 1951 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 April 1988 (aged 36) East Berlin, East Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiedler also won two medals in the men's singles event at the FIL World Luge Championships with a gold in 1975 and a silver in 1973.
He also won three medals in the men's singles event at the FIL European Luge Championships with two golds (1972, 1976) and one silver (1975).
Fiedler died of cancer in 1988. The summer luge track in his hometown of Ilmenau was named in his honor the following year.
References
- Fuzilogik Sports – Winter Olympic results – Men's luge at the Wayback Machine (archived 21 February 2010)
- Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton. at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 June 2007)
- Deprecated link at archive.today (archived 4 December 2012)
- Ilmenau information on Fiedler, shown as W. Fiedler Archived 4 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- List of European luge champions Archived 25 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
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