Sepp Weiler

Sepp Weiler ( born January 22, 1921 in Oberstdorf, † 24 May 1997 Kempten ) was a German ski jumper.

Weiler was the third youngest of seven siblings, he had a brother and five sisters. After he had already jumped in his childhood great distances and had left his older opponent behind him, he was appointed at age 16 for the first time in the German national team. Great successes were the Oberstdorf fails, which could be attributed also to the circumstances of the time: Due to the war found the Winter Olympics in 1940 and 1944 not held; 1948 in St. Moritz, the German athletes were not allowed to participate in the competitions. In 1952 came the hamlet at the age of 31 years to his first Olympics start: In Oslo, he was initially traded as early contender, but eventually finished only the eighth position. Four years later, the German said from his participation in the Games in Cortina d' Ampezzo after the death of his mother.

Apart from the hamlet of success at major events - at the World Ski Championships 1941, he jumped Although most, but received poor marks for style and placed on the fourth - was the Oberstdorf as one of the world's best ski jumpers of the 1940s and 1950s. In his best season (1948 /49), he won 35 of the 36 contests in which he participated. He also presented various hill records on, held in March 1950 in the meantime the ski flying world record and made together with his teammates Heini Klopfer of Oberstdorf and Toni breeding shear for a surge in popularity for the ski jumping in Germany. He won the first ski flying Week 1950 in Oberstdorf with a best distance of 133 meters. The first Four Hills Tournament In 1953 he finished second in the overall standings 5.Platz.1957 he ended his 20 - year career.

Weiler married in 1946; the marriage lasted until the death of his wife in 1980, from her had three children. Frank Löffler, team Junior World Champion of 1998 and German champion in 2002, is a grandson of the hamlet. Until his death from cancer in May 1997, the qualified installer led the restaurant at the Heini Klopfer ski jump which was subsequently taken over by his son.