Wolfgang Danne (9 December 1941 – 16 June 2019)
[ was a ]West German
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pair skater
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. He was born in Hildesheim
Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the L ...
. With partner Margot Glockshuber, he became the 1968 Olympic bronze medalist. They were also the 1967 World and 1967 European silver medalists.[
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Results
With Margot Glockshuber
With Sigrid Riechmann
References
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Database Olympics
German male pair skaters
Figure skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters of West Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
1941 births
2019 deaths
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Hildesheim
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