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When the Olympic flame came to Landsberg

2022-02-15T18:13:49.799Z


When the Olympic flame came to Landsberg Created: 02/15/2022, 19:00 By: Thomas Ernstberger Unforgettable, unique: Landsberger Werner Nagl (left) accompanied Torchbearer Walter Kiening (3rd from left) with Toni Friesenegger (2nd from left) and three other athletes on the short section of the Olympic flame to the Augsburg Ice Canal. © Private Landsberg – It is an anniversary that is already cast


When the Olympic flame came to Landsberg

Created: 02/15/2022, 19:00

By: Thomas Ernstberger

Unforgettable, unique: Landsberger Werner Nagl (left) accompanied Torchbearer Walter Kiening (3rd from left) with Toni Friesenegger (2nd from left) and three other athletes on the short section of the Olympic flame to the Augsburg Ice Canal.

© Private

Landsberg – It is an anniversary that is already casting its shadow everywhere – not just in Bavaria.

In 2022 it will be exactly 50 years since the Summer Olympics took place in Munich.

The games that started so happily until the assassination attempt on the Israeli team caused horror around the world.

Werner Nagl from Landsberg has very special memories of the 1972 Olympics.

The 80-year-old proudly presents a white, sleeveless T-shirt with the Olympic rings, the inscription "Munich 1972" and the Olympic spiral, the official logo of the "Games of the XX.

Olympiad”, as they were officially called.

The “jersey”, as he calls it, he found “accidentally while cleaning up”.

"For 50 years it had disappeared under other laundry," says Nagl.

"Just before the Olympic anniversary, I rediscovered it." And he knows: "I can't wash it anymore.

I'll leave it like that.

I heard that an Olympic Museum is to be built in Munich.

Maybe they'll be interested in my jersey."


Rediscovered by chance: the running shirt that Werner Nagl wore five decades ago.

© Greiner

But how did Werner Nagl get hold of this rare piece in the first place?

You have to know that the pensioner was once an ice bockey player and trainer.

He was already playing at EV Landsberg at the end of the 1950s - "Partly still on natural ice on Augsburger Straße." - Then in Herrsching and with the Edelmann brothers "Witschi" and Anton, both German national players, in Weßling, before he left in 1960 returned to his home club in the Oberliga.

He was active there for two more years, then worked for 20 years, until 1982, as a junior, youth and student coach.


Among others, Werner Nagl trained EVL legend Jockl Ried, the father of the current Denklinger soccer goalscorer and ice hockey fan Simon Ried.

Nagl's greatest success as a coach: With the Landsberg school team, he played against top clubs such as Cologne, Düsseldorf, Riessersee, Rosenheim and Bad Nauheim for the German championship.

“We finished seventh out of eight teams and didn't get relegated.

That was a huge success for us,” he recalls.


The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich took place while Nagl was working as a junior coach.

As is well known, the competitions were not held exclusively in the state capital at the time.

The canoe slalom competitions took place in Augsburg – and somehow the Olympic flame had to go there.

Runners, always in small groups, brought it from Munich to the Swabian metropolis with silver torches.

One of these groups of runners came from Landsberg - and there were Nagl and five ice hockey comrades from the EVL with them.

He remembers: “In a tavern in Stegen, everything was planned and prepared in great detail.

When the time came, we walked about one and a half kilometers with Walter Kiening from Schwifting, who carried the torch - from the old cemetery over the Waitzinger Berg in the direction of Augsburg.


Was he then live in the stadium at the Olympics?

"Yes, one afternoon at athletics."

Nagl had chosen a good day.

He watched the 100-meter final, which Russian super sprinter Valery Borsov (now 72 years old) won in 10.14 seconds.

"He ran the first 25 meters like he was flying low," he remembers.

It was Nagl's only trip to the games: "After that there was this terrible attack."


A short final pan to the current ice hockey events.

Does the former EVL player still watch the Riverkings games?

Werner Nagl doesn't have to think long: "No, not for a few years.

I don't know anyone there and no longer have any connection to Landsberger ice hockey."

Olympic memories?

Do you have photos or very special memories of any kind from the 1972 Olympics in Munich?

And would you like to make them available to us for publication in KREISBOTEN?

Then go to the computer and send us your contribution via e-mail to redaktion-LL@kreisbote.de, of course with your contact details.

We are looking forward to your message!

Source: merkur

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