Ice hockey defenseman Sylvester Wackerle, Jr. competed at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics tournament, with the German team finishing seventh. He earned 25 international caps with the West German national team, also playing at the 1963 World Championships. Domestically Wackerle played exclusively for SC Riessersee, winning the West German Championships in 1960. In 1994 he took over the “Gasthaus Bräustüberl” in Garmisch. Both, his father Sylvester Wackerle, Sr. and his brother Anton Wackerle were Olympic bobsleigh athletes.