Willi Holdorf
In 1964 he won the first Olympic medal for Germany in decathlon and was named German Sportspersonality of the Year.He was trained as a high-voltage electrician, but later worked as a sporting goods representative and a coach, both in athletics and football.He coached Olympic pole vaulter Claus Schiprowski, Reinhard Kuretzky and Günther Nickel, and later managed German Bundesliga side SC Fortuna Köln in football, where he could not avoid relegation.[1][2][3] At the Bobsleigh European Championships 1973 he was runner up in the two men competition.This article about an athletics Olympic medalist for Germany is a stub.