Joseph "Peppi" Heiß (born 13 June 1963 in

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...

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) is a retired

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ice hockey goaltender. He started his career with SC Riessersee in 1980. He played for Riessersee,

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and

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. After playing about 1200 games in the German League and 140 games for the German national men's hockey team he retired in 2001 because of a knee injury. His daughter

Stella Heiß Stella Heiß (born 15 January 1993 in Cologne) is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She played lead for Andrea Schöpp when she represented Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Curling. At seventeen years, she was the youngest curler ...

is a successful curler who represented Germany at the

2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...

. At seventeen years, she was the youngest curler at the Games.

Career accomplishments

*German Champion 1981, 1995 *

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-Participation 1990 (7th Place), 1991 (8th), 1992 (6th), 1993 (5th), 1994 (9th), 1995 (9th), 1996 (8th), 1997 (11th), 1998 (11th) *

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-Participation

Albertville 1992 ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...

(6th), Lillehammer 1994 (7th), Nagano 1998 (9th) *

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1996 (8th)

References

* * 1963 births Living people German ice hockey goaltenders Ice hockey players at the 1992 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Kölner Haie players Olympic ice hockey players for Germany Sportspeople from Garmisch-Partenkirchen {{Germany-icehockey-bio-stub