Sepp Weiler

Sepp Weiler
Sepp Weiler in 1953
Country West Germany
Born(1921-01-22)22 January 1921
Oberstdorf, Weimar Republic
Died24 May 1997(1997-05-24) (aged 76)
Kempten, Germany
Ski clubSC Oberstdorf
Personal best133 m (436 ft)
Oberstdorf, West Germany
(3 March 1950)

Sepp Weiler (22 January 1921, Oberstdorf, Bavaria – 24 May 1997) was a West German ski jumper who competed from 1952 to 1956.

Career

He finished tied for eighth in the individual large hill event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Weiler's best career finish was fifth in an individual normal hill event in Austria in 1953.

On 2–3 March 1950 he set two world records at 127 metres (417 ft) on Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze ski flying hill in Oberstdorf, West Germany.[1][2][3][nb 1]

Ski jumping world records

Date Hill Location Metres Feet
2 March 1950   Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze Oberstdorf, West Germany 127 417

*Weiler jumped 133 metres after Dan Netzell set world record (Ljudska pravica; 4/3/1950).[1]

Notes

  1. ^ According to official German radio report, which was cited and published in Ljudska pravica (4/3/1950), jumps were following in the next order: Andreas Däscher (130 m), then Dan Netzell (135 m) and the last Sepp Weiler (133 m).

References

  1. ^ a b "135 m dolg smučarski skok je dosegel šved Netzl (page 4)" (in Slovenian). Ljudska pravica. 4 March 1950.
  2. ^ "Sepp Weiler" (in German). skiclub-oberstdorf.de. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Danes 250 tekmovalcev: V Oberstdorfu je šlo 135 metrov daleč" (in Slovenian). Slovenski poročevalec. 4 March 1950.