Eberhard Wiese (born 3 August 1953) is an
East German
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
bobsled
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der who competed during the mid-1980s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the
1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...
in
Sarajevo
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.
Wiese also earned a silver medal in the four-man event at the
1982 FIBT World Championships in
St. Moritz.
References
Boobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964
Bobsledders at the 1984 Winter Olympics
German male bobsledders
German male sprinters
Olympic bobsledders for East Germany
Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
Living people
1953 births
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics
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