German Athletics Championships 1898

1st German Athletics Championships
city	Hamburg (+ unofficial: marathon)
Competitions	3 (+ unofficial: marathon)
opening	September 4, 1898
Final day	September 25, 1898
timeline
	Strasbourg / Braunschweig / Pforzheim 1899 →

The 1st German Athletics Championships were held in Hamburg in three disciplines on two different dates in 1898 . In addition, on July 3, a marathon over 40 km took place in Leipzig for the second time after 1897 , but - until 1924 - it was not officially part of the championship competitions, but was carried out independently as the "German Marathon".

Winners list

discipline	athlete	power	place	date
100 m	Paul Fischer ( FC Altona 93 )	12.2 s	Hamburg	September 4th
200 m	Paul Fischer ( FC Altona 93 )	23.0 s	Hamburg	25th of September
1500 m	Franz Duhne ( Germania Hamburg )	4: 26.2 min	Hamburg	25th of September
Marathon, 40 km	Arthur Techtow ( Arminia-Urania Berlin )	3:19:50 h	Leipzig	3rd of July

See also

• German athletics - current top performances
• German athletics - current top performances in the context of German championships

literature

• Fritz Steinmetz : 75 years of the German Athletics Championships (1898–1972) . Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2 .

Web links

• German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de

References and comments

1. ↑ as "German Marathon" not yet in the official championship program