Ice hockey defenseman Helmut Zanghellini competed at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics tournament, with the German team finishing seventh. He earned 50 international caps with the West German national team, also playing at the 1963 World Championships and the 1965 B World Championships. Domestically Zanghellini played exclusively for EV Füssen, winning eight West German Championships in 1961, 1963-65, 1968-69, 1971, and 1973. In 1964 the team also won the Spengler Cup in Davos. Zanghellini later owned the “Café Zanghellini” in Füssen.