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Starnberg mourns the loss of sailing star Wolfgang Rappel: Former world champion died at the age of 82

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Starnberg mourns the loss of sailing star Wolfgang Rappel: Former world champion died at the age of 82 Created: 11/30/2022, 2:57 p.m By: Thomas Ernstberger Wolfgang Rappel was an athlete through and through. Photo: Private © Private The former sailing world champion Wolfgang Rappel from Starnberg died at the age of 82. He was an athlete through and through - and not only collected trophies in


Starnberg mourns the loss of sailing star Wolfgang Rappel: Former world champion died at the age of 82

Created: 11/30/2022, 2:57 p.m

By: Thomas Ernstberger

Wolfgang Rappel was an athlete through and through.

Photo: Private © Private

The former sailing world champion Wolfgang Rappel from Starnberg died at the age of 82.

He was an athlete through and through - and not only collected trophies in sailing.

Starnberg – Mourning for a man who knew everyone who had anything to do with sailing around Lake Starnberg: Wolfgang Rappel, once world champion and two-time runner-up European champion in the kite, died at the age of 82.

Wolfgang Rappel: sailing, skiing and football

Rappel was not only one of the great sailors in the Five Lakes Region, he was a sportsman through and through.

Skiing – he had to give up his racing career at the age of 18 because of pneumonia – was just as much a passion as football.

He didn't start kicking until he was over 30, but then played in the reserves and with the veterans of SpVgg Starnberg until he was almost 40.

“Wolfi was in the condition of a bull.

And you could have a lot of fun with him,” former teammates recall.

Wolfgang Rappel: Cupboards full of trophies in Starnberg

But sailing - that was Rappel's life.

"Just let me sail," was his motto.

Early on he was hired by the Munich Yacht Club and later by the Bavarian Yacht Club.

In a portrait from 2017, the BYC wrote: “The athletically committed rascal from Wilhelmshöhenstraße in Starnberg did not spend most of his time at the unloved school desk like others, but preferred to take care of the ship, sails and regatta tactics.

And in winter we went skiing.”

Hardly any other athlete in the Bavarian Yacht Club has sailed so many regattas around the world as successfully as Wolfi Rappel.

A book would have to be written about the many individual victories.

Excerpt from a portrait of the Bavarian Yacht Club about Wolfgang Rappel from 2017

The result: "In his house, he lives in his parents' house, the cupboards are filled with hundreds of silver cups and other glittering trophies.

The wooden walls are adorned with photos of an extraordinarily successful athlete's life."

Both ski and regatta motifs each told an exciting success story.

“Hardly any other athlete in the Bavarian Yacht Club has sailed so many regattas around the world as successfully as Wolfi Rappel.

You would have to write a book about the many individual victories,” says the club.

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Wolfgang Rappel and his success story in sailing

Rappel, who came to Starnberg in 1944 at the age of four with his parents – his mother ran a well-known costume shop – always described the BYC as his “second home”.

There he helped young sailors with valuable tips.

At the end of the 1950s, Rappel competed in a regatta for the first time - and won right away.

His success story in the Flying Dutchman began in the mid-1960s.

Rappel once said: "We at the BYC were a feared group in all areas: Karl Haist, Franz Höflinger and I.

With my crew, Ralph Weyler, we were good for top rankings everywhere for almost 20 years.

And then I came up with the dragon.

I have always really, really enjoyed sailing this ship.”

Funeral service for Wolfgang Rappel in Starnberg

Rappel celebrated his greatest successes in the kite: in 1985 he became world champion in France together with Michael Obermaier and Michael Lipp.

In 1995 and 2007, the Starnberger secured the Vice European Championship.

He particularly enjoyed the “ski yachting” – skiing and sailing in one category: “I held all the trumps there.

Every start a victory.”

Rappel has lived a secluded life in Starnberg for the past few years.

The funeral service will take place on Monday, December 12, at 11 a.m. in the funeral parlor of the Starnberg Forest Cemetery.


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Source: merkur

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