Wolfgang Mayrhofer was an Austrian sailor who started sailing at the age of five. He surprisingly won the silver medal at the 1980 Moskva (Moscow) Olympics when the sailing events were held in Tallinn, Estonia. Mayrhofer won the medal in the one-person dinghy Finn class. From 1963-73 he sailed Optimist, the most popular single-handed boat for children below the age of 15. He sailed OK-Dinghy from 1974-76 and Finn-Dinghy 1976-83.
Mayrhofer later became professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Wien (Vienna). He had previously held research and teaching positions in Germany at the University of Paderborn, and at Dresden University of Technology, after receiving his diploma and doctoral degrees in Business Administration at the University of Wien.
Austria