Ernst Krebs (athlete)

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Ernst Krebs (1936)

Ernst Krebs (born November 4, 1906 in Munich ; † July 20, 1970 in Gauting ) was a German mountaineer , cross-country skier and canoeist who won an Olympic gold medal in canoeing in 1936.

Career

He started his sporting career with skiing . For example, at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1929 , he was the best Central European in 8th place over 18 km and was four-time German champion in the relay of the Bavarian Ski Association from 1928 to 1932 .

Ernst Krebs won the first European championship in a single kayak over 10,000 meters in Prague in 1933 ahead of the Swede Nils Wallin and the German Edi Kleckers . In 1936 he won the German championship over 10,000 meters. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he won the 10,000 meter competition in 46: 01.6 minutes with a thirteen second lead over the Austrian Fritz Landertinger . Olympic canoeing competitions were held for the first time in 1936. On August 7th the competitions over 10,000 meters were held, the decisions over 1000 meters took place on August 8th. Ernst Krebs was the first canoe Olympic champion in an individual discipline.

Krebs was an avid mountaineer, and in 1932, as Toni Schmid's mountain companion, he survived a fall from a great height on the Wiesbachhorn . The master plumber died in 1970 when he fell while fixing a gutter at the level of the third floor.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , pp. 914-915 (note 389).
personal data
SURNAME Cancer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canoeists
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 1970
Place of death Gauting