Werner Delmes

Werner Delmes was a German field hockey player, born in Cologne on 28 September 1930 and died there on 13 January 2022. A club player with Rot-Weiss Koeln, he played for the German team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where it won the bronze medal by beating Great Britain 3-1 in the deciding match, and again at the 1960 Games, where it finished seventh. He earned 40 international caps between 1954 and 1962 and received the Silver Bay Leaf in 1956, the highest award of the German government for sport. He later became a sports official in the German Hockey Federation and coached the West German men's team that won its first Olympic hockey gold at Munich in 1972.