Wolfgang Junginger (27 October 1951 – 17 February 1982) was a German

alpine skier Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...

who competed in the

1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...

. There he finished on 6th place in Special Slalom and on 4th place in Alpine Combined. Two years before, in World Championships at St. Moritz (

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), he won the bronze medal in Alpine Combined. Mr. Junginger died in an airplane crash when he piloted a small airplane from

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in Germany. Including the pilot himself there were four persons in the plane and one of them was Mr. Ulrich Hoeness, well known manager of

Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...

. Mr. Hoeness was the only one who had survived the accident.

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1951 births 1982 deaths German male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of West Germany Alpine skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in Germany 20th-century German people {{Germany-alpine-skiing-bio-stub