Roland Wetzig
East German bobsledder
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (July 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
- View a machine-translated version of the German article.
- Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
- Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,154 articles in the main category, and specifying
|topic=will aid in categorization. - Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
- You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Roland Wetzig]]; see its history for attribution. - You may also add the template
{{Translated|de|Roland Wetzig}}to the talk page. - For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's bobsleigh | ||
Representing  East Germany | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 1984 Sarajevo | Four-man |
 | 1980 Lake Placid | Four-man |
| World Championships | ||
 | 1982 St. Moritz | Four-man |
| 1987 St. Moritz | Four-man |
Roland Wetzig (born 24 July 1959 in Oschatz, Saxony) is an East German bob pusher for 17-time gold medal winner Wolfgang Hoppe who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the four-man with a gold in 1984 and a bronze in 1980.
Wetzig also won two silver medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships, earning them in 1982 and 1987.
References
- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964[dead link]
- Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
- Kluge, Volker (2000). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler. Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. (in German)
- v
- t
- e
- 1924:
Scherrer, Neveu, A. Schläppi, H. Schläppi (SUI) - 1928:
Fiske, Tucker, Mason, Gray, Parke (USA) - 1932: Fiske, Eagan, Gray, O'Brien (USA)
- 1936: Musy, Gartmann, Bouvier, Beerli (SUI)
- 1948: Tyler, Martin, Rimkus, D'Amico (USA)
- 1952:
Ostler, Kuhn, Nieberl, Kemser (GER) - 1956: Kapus, Diener, Alt, Angst (SUI)
- 1964:
V. Emery, Kirby, Anakin, J. Emery (CAN) - 1968:
Monti, de Paolis, Zandonella, Armano (ITA) - 1972: Wicki, Hubacher, Leutenegger, Camichel (SUI)
- 1976:
Nehmer, Babock, Germeshausen, Lehmann (GDR) - 1980: Nehmer, Musioł, Germeshausen, Gerhardt (GDR)
- 1984: Hoppe, Wetzig, Schauerhammer, Kirchner (GDR)
- 1988: Fasser, Meier, Fässler, Stocker (SUI)
- 1992:
Appelt, Winkler, Haidacher, Schroll (AUT) - 1994: Czudaj, Brannasch, Hampel, Szelig (GER)
- 1998: Langen, Zimmerman, Jakobs, Hampel (GER)
- 2002: Lange, Kühn, Kuske, Embach (GER)
- 2006: Lange, Hoppe, Putze, Kuske (GER)
- 2010:
Holcomb, Olsen, Mesler, Tomasevicz (USA) - 2014:
Melbārdis, Vilkaste, Dreiškens, Strenga (LAT) - 2018: Friedrich, Bauer, Grothkopp, Margis (GER)
- 2022: Friedrich, Margis, Bauer, Schüller (GER)
 | This biographical article relating to German bobsleigh is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
  | This article about a German Winter Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
