Wolfgang Zimmerer

Wolfgang Zimmerer (* November 15, 1940 in Ohlstadt ) is a retired German bobsledder.

He won the gold medal in two-man bobsleigh, as well as the bronze medal in four-man bobsled ( with Stefan Gaisreiter and Walter Steinbauer ) at the Olympic Winter Games in 1972 in Sapporo with brakeman Peter Utzschneider. For more world titles he won in 1973 in the two-man bobsleigh and 1974 in the two-man bobsleigh and in the four-man bob. At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976 he was flag-bearer of the German team. There he won with the athletes Manfred Schumann as brakeman the silver medal in two-man bobsleigh, as well as the bronze medal in four-man bobsled ( with Peter Utzschneider and Bodo Bittner ).

Carpenter is the uncle of Maria Hoefl - Riesch ski racers and Susanne Riesch.

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