Olaf von Schilling

Olaf Baron von Schilling ( born September 16, 1943 in Stralsund ) was a German documents and freestyle swimmer.

The water for the friends Wuppertal An incoming and Heinz Hoffmann trained 1,87 m tall athlete achieved his greatest success on the shorter distances crawl. So he scored with the German 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay for men in 1965 set a world record. In the Summer Olympics 1968 in Mexico City, he reached with the two freestyle relays in the finals each sixth. In individual, he retired in the semifinals over 100 m of 55.9 sec and 200 m freestyle in the lead with 2:01,7 min. In the European Swimming Championships 1970 in Barcelona, he replaced in the finals of the long freestyle relay Hans -Günther Vosseler and won as a team with Werner lamp, his time his team mate Folkert Meeuw and Hans Fassnacht the gold medal. At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, the excellent stylist managed to be the oldest participant of the German swimming team in an individual over 200 m in the flow 2:00,27 min.