| Personal Information | ||
| Country represented: |  Austria |
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| Date of birth: | August 14, 1947 | |
| Retired: | 1968 | |
| Olympic medal record | ||
| Men's figure skating | ||
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| Competitor for Austria |
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| Gold | 1968 Grenoble | Singles |
Wolfgang Schwarz (born September 14, 1947 in Vienna) was an Austrian figure skater who won the gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Prior to that, he was best known for finishing as runner-up to Austrian teammate Emmerich Danzer at the World Figure Skating Championships and European Figure Skating Championships multiple times.
Schwarz was convicted in 2002 on charges relating to trafficking in human beings after he brought five women from Russia and Lithuania to Austria to work as prostitutes. In 2006, he was convicted and sentenced to 8 years in prison for plotting a kidnapping of a Romanian teenager.
Competitive highlights
| Event/Season | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 |
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| Winter Olympics | 15th | 1st | |||
| World Championships | 7th | 2nd | 2nd | ||
| European Championships | 7th | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd |
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