Dirk Wiese is a German
bobsled
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der who competed in the 1990s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the
1997 FIBT World Championships in
St. Moritz
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.
Wiese also 11th in the two-man event at the
1998 Winter Olympics
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in
Nagano.
His best finish in the
Bobsleigh World Cup
The Bobsleigh World Cup is an annual bobsleigh competitions. It has taken place since the 1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian language, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene lan ...
championship was second in the four-man event in 1993-4.
References
1998 bobsleigh two-man results
Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics
German male bobsledders
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Olympic bobsledders for Germany
20th-century German sportsmen
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