Horst Löffler

Horst Loeffler ( born March 17, 1942 in Langenau ) is a former swimmer from the Federal Republic of Germany, as a member of the all-German team won an Olympic silver medal in 1964.

Horst started for spoonbills the SSV Ulm 1846., He was able to qualify in 1964 as the third swimmer from the Federal Republic of Germany for the Olympic participation on the 100 - meter freestyle track. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, he swam in the run 55.6 seconds in the semifinals, he retired in 56.0 seconds from. With the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay in the cast Horst Löffler, Frank Wiegand from Rostock, Uwe Jacobsen from Darmstadt and Hans -Joachim Klein of Darmstadt, he won with four seconds behind the squadron of the United States the silver medal. This season was one of the few teams in the all-German team in the East and West German athletes competed together.