Michael Peter (7 May 1949 – 23 October 1997) was a

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...

player from

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

, who captained the West German team that won the gold medal at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972 ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

. Twelve years later, at age 35, he was a member of the squad that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in

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, California. He was born in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

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German hockey remains strong for Pete’s sake - stick2hockey

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* 1949 births 1997 deaths German male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players of West Germany Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in field hockey Olympic gold medalists for West Germany Olympic silver medalists for West Germany Sportspeople from Heidelberg 20th-century German people {{Germany-fieldhockey-Olympic-medalist-stub