Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Benno Edwin Julius•Wandolleck |
Used name | Benno•Wandolleck |
Born | 18 April 1864 in Gdańsk, Pomorskie (POL) |
Died | 1930 |
NOC | Germany |
German sports shooter Benno Wandolleck finished seventh in team dueling pistol at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. By profession he was a zoologist who worked at the Zoological and Anthropologic-Ethnographic Museum in Dresden. He also had an extensive interest in photography and firearms. Wandolleck owned one of the biggest handgun collections in Germany at the time. As a professor he examined the weapons famous German author Karl May described in his Winnetou novels.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1912 Summer Olympics | Shooting | GER | Benno Wandolleck | |||
Dueling Pistol, 30 metres, Team, Men (Olympic) | Germany | 7 |