Wolfgang Schwarz

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Olympic medal record
Men's figure skating
Gold	1968 Grenoble	Singles

Wolfgang Schwarz

Personal Info
Country:	Austria
Date of birth:	August 14, 1947 (1947-08-14) (age 60)
Retired:	1968

Wolfgang Schwarz (born September 14, 1947 in Vienna) was an Austrian figure skater who won the gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Prior to that, he was best known for finishing as runner-up to Austrian teammate Emmerich Danzer at the World Figure Skating Championships and European Figure Skating Championships multiple times.

Schwarz was convicted in 2002 on charges relating to trafficking in human beings after he brought five women from Russia and Lithuania to Austria to work as prostitutes. In 2006, he was convicted and sentenced to 8 years in prison for plotting a kidnapping of a Romanian teenager.

[edit] Competitive highlights

Event/Season	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968
Winter Olympics	15th				1st
World Championships		7th	2nd	2nd
European Championships	7th	5th	2nd	2nd	2nd

[edit] References

• Olympian jailed over kidnap plot
• Skating gold medalist gets 8 years for kidnap plot

v • d • e Olympic champions in figure skating – Men's singles 1908: Ulrich Salchow · 1920: Gillis Grafström · 1924: Gillis Grafström · 1928: Gillis Grafström · 1932: Karl Schäfer · 1936: Karl Schäfer · 1948: Dick Button · 1952: Dick Button · 1956: Hayes Alan Jenkins · 1960: David Jenkins · 1964: Manfred Schnelldorfer · 1968: Wolfgang Schwarz · 1972: Ondrej Nepela · 1976: John Curry · 1980: Robin Cousins · 1984: Scott Hamilton · 1988: Brian Boitano · 1992: Viktor Petrenko · 1994: Alexei Urmanov · 1998: Ilia Kulik · 2002: Alexei Yagudin · 2006: Evgeni Plushenko

Persondata
NAME	Schwarz, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Austrian figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna, Austria
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH