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Full name | Ulrich Strohschneider | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Austrian | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Salzburg, Austria | May 12, 1940|||||||||||||||||
Died | September 20, 1998 St. Gilgen, Austria | (aged 58)|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6.2 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
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Class | Soling | |||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 1 March 2014 |
Ulrich "Uli" Strohschneider (12 May 1940 in Salzburg – 20 September 1998 in St. Gilgen) was a sailor from Austria.[1][2] Strohschneider represented his country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Kiel. Strohschneider took 17th place in the Soling with Peter Denzel and Robert Haschka as fellow crew members.
Strohschneider served many terms within the ISA. During that period, he succeeded to change the class rules to make the Soling unsinkable.
Strohschneider was a pharmacologist in the Austrian federal government.