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|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1934 Turin|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 110 m hurdles
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|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1935 Budapest|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 110 m hurdles
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Erwin Wegner (5 April 1909 – 16 February 1945) was a German athlete, born in Stettin. Wegner won the silver medal at the 1934 European Championships in the 110 metres hurdles and competed in the Olympic Games as both a hurdler and a decathlete.
Career[]
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Wegner competed in the 110 m hurdles and the decathlon.[1] In the hurdles he placed third in his heat in 15.1 and qualified for the semi-finals, where he failed to finish.[1] In the decathlon he placed ninth, winning the hurdles in 15.4 ahead of another specialist, Bob Tisdall.[1][2]
At the 1934 European Championships in Turin Wegner won the silver medal in the hurdles in 14.9, losing only to Hungary's József Kovács.[1][3][4] Wegner defeated Kovács at the International University Games in Budapest the following year, winning the gold in 14.7.[5]
Wegner returned to the Olympics in 1936, this time only competing in the 110 m hurdles and again going out in the semi-finals.[1] His personal best in the 110 m hurdles was 14.5, which he ran in 1935.[1] He was also good in the 400 m hurdles,[2] winning silver behind Kovács in that event at the 1935 International University Games.[5]
An SS officer, Wegner was killed in action in the last months of World War II in France.[6]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Erwin Wegner Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/erwin-wegner-1.html. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jukola, Martti (1935) (in Finnish). Huippu-urheilun historia. Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö.
- ↑ "EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (MEN)". http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ec.htm. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
- ↑ Template:Tilastopaja
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "WORLD STUDENT GAMES (PRE-UNIVERSIADE)". http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsg.htm. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
External links[]
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