Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Holger•Meitinger |
Used name | Holger•Meitinger |
Born | 28 March 1957 in Augsburg, Bayern (GER) |
Measurements | 180 cm / 78 kg |
Affiliations | Mannheimer ERC, Mannheim (GER) |
NOC | West Germany |
West German ice hockey forward Holger Meitinger earned 78 international caps and scored 33 goals. He played at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics and the World Championships in 1979 and 1981-83. In 1981 he was the leading scorer with 20 points at the Worlds.
Domestically, Meitinger played with Augsburger EV (until 1977), Krefelder EV (1977-78), Sportbund Rosenheim (1978-79), Mannheimer ERC (1979-81), and finally Kölner Haie (1981-90). He helped Mannheim win the West German Championship in 1980 and Köln in 1984 and 1986-88. In 1981 he was named Player of the Year and was inducted into the German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. Meitinger later owned a finance and real estate agency and managed his son Nikolas, who became a golf professional.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1980 Winter Olympics | Ice Hockey (Ice Hockey) | FRG | Holger Meitinger | |||
Ice Hockey, Men (Olympic) | West Germany | =9 |