Uwe Wünsch (born 15 February 1963 in

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) is an

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cross-country skier who competed in the early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the

1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982 took place on 19–28 February 1982 in Oslo, Norway at the Holmenkollen ski arena. This was Oslo's record-tying fourth time hosting the event after previously doing so in 1930, the 1952 Winter Olympics, ...

(Tied with

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). Winsch finished 12th in the 15 km event at a 1983 World Cup event in

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. He also competed at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian language, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: ; ) and commonly known as Sarajevo '84 (Serbian Cy ...

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games

World Championships

* 1 medal – (1 bronze)

World Cup

Season standings

Team podiums

*1 podium Note: Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship races were included in the World Cup scoring system.

References

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* 1963 births Living people People from Frankenberg, Saxony East German male cross-country skiers FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing Olympic cross-country skiers for East Germany Cross-country skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Skiers from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt {{Germany-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub