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Wilhelm Bichl

Austrian luger

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ8002097 ↗
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Wilhelm Bichl (born 3 February 1949 in Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian luger who competed in the late 1960s. He won a gold medal in the men's doubles event at the 1967 FIL European Luge Championships in Königssee, West Germany.

Bichl also finished seventh in the men's doubles event at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.

References

Wallechinsky, David. (1984). "Luge - Men's two-seater". The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 576.

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The public source identifies “Wilhelm Bichl” as austrian luger. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wilhelm, Bichl and Austrian.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1967, 1968, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wilhelm, Bichl and Austrian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wilhelm Bichl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.