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Wilhelm Dick

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Wilhelm Dick
Personal information
Born(1897-09-10)10 September 1897
Vejprty, Austria-Hungary
Died1980
Wermelskirchen, West Germany
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Representing  Czechoslovakia
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1925 Johannisbad Individual large hill
Silver medal – second place 1927 Cortina d'Ampezzo Individual large hill

Wilhelm Josef Dick (10 September 1897 –1980) was a Czechoslovak ski jumper who competed in the 1920s. He won two ski jumping medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in 1925 and a silver in 1927.

At the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he competed for Germany under the name Willy Dick.

He was a Sudeten German. After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in 1952 he moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia,[1] where he died in 1980.

References

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  1. ^ "Aussiger Bote 1967". archiv.pixelprint.info (in German). 1967. Retrieved 2015-02-20.