Wilhelm Dick

Wilhelm Josef Dick (10 September 1897 –1980) was a Czechoslovak ski jumper who competed in the 1920s. He won two ski jumping medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in 1925 and a silver in 1927.

Wilhelm Dick
Personal information
Born(1897-09-10)10 September 1897
Vejprty, Austria-Hungary
Died1980
Wermelskirchen, West Germany
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Representing  Czechoslovakia
World Championships
1925 Johannisbad Individual large hill
1927 Cortina d'Ampezzo Individual large hill

At the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he competed for Germany under the name Willy Dick.

He was a Sudeten German. After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in 1952 he moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia,[1] where he died in 1980.

References

  1. "Aussiger Bote 1967". archiv.pixelprint.info (in German). 1967. Retrieved 2015-02-20.


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