Gerhard Oechsle (born 14 October 1957) is a
West German
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 ...
bobsledder who competed in the early 1980s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the
1983 FIBT World Championships in
Lake Placid, New York
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The village of Lake Placid is near the center of the town of North Elba, southwest of Plattsburgh. ...
.
Oechsle also finished ninth 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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.
References
External links
1984 bobsleigh four-man results
Bobsledders at the 1984 Winter Olympics
German male bobsledders
Living people
1957 births
Olympic bobsledders for West Germany
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