Wolfgang Nordwig (born 27 August 1943) is a former East German pole vaulter.

Nordwig's keenest rivals for the title the Americans Bob Seagren, Steve Smith and Jan Johnson and the Swede Kjell Isaksson were amongst those vaulters banned by the world governing body the IAAF from competing with the lighter poles they had been using all season.

Seagren, the defending champion, finished second; Johnson third; and Smith and Isaksson did not even qualify for the final.

[1] Nordwig was voted by the experts at Track and Field News to be ranked among the best in the world (the best in 1970 and 1971) in the pole vault in the period from 1965 to 1972.

He worked for VEB Carl Zeiss Jena eventually becoming a director of research and development.