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unusual facts about Garmisch Partenkirchen



Sandra Šarić

Representing Croatia at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, she won the silver medal in the welterweight (-67 kg) division, losing to 2000 Olympic champion Lee Sun-Hee of South Korea in the final.


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1936 Olympics

The 1936 Winter Olympics, which were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

1940 Olympics

The 1940 Winter Olympics, which were to be held in Sapporo, Japan, before moving to St. Moritz, Switzerland, before moving to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, before being cancelled due to World War II

Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov

After the war ended, in 1948 Avtorkhanov began working for the US Army Russian Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Albert Pudas

In 1936 Pudas coached the Port Arthur Bearcats who represented Canada in the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.

Bavarian pine vole

This rodent was previously known from only one location in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany, which has since been altered by the construction of a hospital in the 1980s.

Bundesautobahn 95

The A 95 cross the districts Starnberg, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Weilheim-Schongau until the motorway reaches the district Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Carol Heiss

However, at the following World Figure Skating Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, Heiss defeated Albright for the title; it was the first of her five consecutive world titles.

Component-based software engineering

The idea that software should be componentized - built from prefabricated components - first became prominent with Douglas McIlroy's address at the NATO conference on software engineering in Garmisch, Germany, 1968,

County of Werdenfels

The county was divided into three administrative areas: Garmisch, Partenkirchen and Mittenwald.

David Tevzadze

From 1994 to 1996, he received training at various NATO education centers such as the NATO Defence College (Rome, Italy), George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany), and Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, United States).

Dragan Šutanovac

He is also holder of the diploma of Marshall Centre for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Edgardo Vaghi

Vaghi finished 11th in the two-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Feldafing station

The station building of 1865 was built on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen line to a design in the style of the Maximilian age by Georg von Dollmann, the district engineer of the Royal Bavarian State Railways.

Franz Heinzer

Heinzer won at the world's most famous downhill venues: Kitzbühel (3x), Wengen, Val Gardena (2x), Garmisch, Val-d'Isère, Aspen, Lake Louise, and St. Anton.

Franz Isser

Along with Pepi Isser, Heini Isser, and Fritz Isser, he won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1962 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Gerhard Stolze

Gerhard Stolze (1 October 1926, Dessau – 11 March 1979, Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German tenor.

Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Gratia competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, finishing 14th in the alpine combined event.

Great Britain at the 1936 Winter Olympics

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Gudiberg

It hosted the slalom part of the alpine skiing combined event for the 1936 Winter Olympics in neighboring Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Gustaf Douglas

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (born 3 March 1938) is the oldest son of count Carl Ludvig Douglas (26 July 1908 Stjärnorp - 21 January 1961 Rio de Janeiro), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (13 February 1910 Partenkirchen - 17 July 2001).

Hannelore Possmoser

She won the silver medal in the women's singles at the 1960 FIL World Luge Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Heinz Wendlinger

He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1953 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Helmut Berndt

He won the gold medal in the men's singles event at the 1960 FIL World Luge Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Hiroki Yamada

In the World Cup he finished four times among the top 10, his best results being two fourth places from Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1 January 2002) and Hakuba (24 January 2002).

Horst Tiedge

He won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1960 FIL World Luge Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Hugh T. Broomall

In 2009 he attended the Senior Executive Seminar, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany and the Senior Executives in National and International Security program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Ivett Gonda

She finished in fifth place at the 2003 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in the Finweight-47 kg event.

Jean-Marie Musy

Another son, Pierre, received numerous equestrian competition titles and won the four-man bobsleigh gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

L. Scott Rice

:2009 George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Louis Balsan

Competing in two Winter Olympics, Balsan earned his best finish of ninth in the four-man event at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936.

Luis Schlögl

He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1952 European luge championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Michael Ende

Ende was born November 12, 1929 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria, Germany), the only child of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende and Luise Bartholomä Ende, a physiotherapist (Coby).

Ende returned to his birthplace of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he was billeted in a boarding-house, ‘Haus Kramerhof’ and later in ‘Haus Roseneck’.

Monika Kryemadhi

In 1999, she performed studies at the George Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for regional security policies.

Olympische Hymne

During the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the composer invited members of the IOC executive board to hear the work sung by an opera star from Munich.

Pauline de Ahna

De Ahna outlived her husband, but only by eight months, dying in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in May 1950.

Port Arthur Bearcats

When the 1935 Allan Cup champion Halifax Wolverines was unavailable, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association chose the runnerup Bearcats to be Canada's representative at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Sebastian Gorka

Previously, he was a policy expert of the Hungarian Ministry of Defense, founding director of the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security and adjunct professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Simona Miculescu

Other professional training includes a Diplomatic Course at the Institute of International Relations at The University of Leeds, UK, and a Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (2002).

Sverre Fredheim

He competed in ski jumping at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, where he placed sixth in ski jumping.

Thomas Fanara

At Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, he finished sixth in 2011 but failed to finish the first run in 2013 at Schladming, Austria.

Walter Haller

He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1958 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Warszawianka Warszawa

Among Warszawianka's most famous sportspeople, one can single out: Aleksander Szenajch (athletics) – 1924 Olympics in Paris, Janusz Kusociński (athletics) – 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles (a track and field event is held annually in his honor), Janusz Kalbarczyk (speedskating) – 1936 Olympics Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Emil Ochra (fencing) – 1960 and 1964 Olympics; and Stanisław Baran, a football player.