Erwin Blask

Erwin Blask (* 20th March 1910 in Frederick Heyde , East Prussia ; † 6. February 1999 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German athlete , who in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin second in hammer throw was set up in 1938 and a world record.

Life

Erwin Blask was born in East Prussia in 1910 as the tenth child. He married Dora (Dorle) Voigt , the younger sister of the 400 meter runner Harry Voigt , who won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meters at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin together with Helmut Hamann , Friedrich von Stülpnagel and Rudolf Harbig -Season won (3: 11.8 min). Dora Voigt belonged to the world record relay over 4 x 200 meters in 1938 and was multiple German champion over 200 m and with the sprint relay. Professionally, Blask was a police officer, most recently district chief in Frankfurt (Main). Erwin and Dorle Blask lived in Frankfurt (Main) until his death in 1999.

Athletic career

The East Prussian Erwin Blask came to hammer throwing on the basis of a circular from autumn 1934, when the then acting head of the department, Karl Ritter von Halt, asked middle-class rock pusher, shot putter and discus thrower to retrain for hammer throwing. Erwin Blask and Karl Hein were also among the athletes contacted . In 1935, in the international match against Finland, Erwin Blask was the first German to exceed the 50-meter mark with a record distance of 50.44 m. He won a gold watch that an industrialist from Pforzheim had offered as a prize for the first 50-meter throw.

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Erwin Blask was second in the hammer throw with 55.04 m (52.55 - 55.04 - invalid - 54.10 - 54.48 - invalid) behind his compatriot Karl Hein, who scored 56.49 m won and set an Olympic record .

On August 27, 1938, Blask set a world record in Stockholm with 59.00 m, which lasted until 1948 ( Imre Németh : 59.02 m). At the beginning of August 1939 Blask reached 58.65 m in Norrköping ( Sweden ). He also competed during the Second World War until 1943.

After the Second World War, Blask continued to take a hammer throw. As third in the German championships in 1952, he missed participation in the Olympic Games . At the German Championships in 1953 in Augsburg , 43-year-old Blask took leave of active sport in third place with a throw of 53.71 m.

He started in his record time for the Berlin Sport Club and trained with Sepp Christmann . Before he started for the police SV Königsberg , later for Grün-Weiß Frankfurt . In his active time he was 1.80 m tall and 97 kg heavy.

successes

• Silver medal at the XI. Olympic Games 1936
• World record in the international competition in Stockholm 1938 (59.00 m)
• Second at the European Championships in 1938 (57.34 m)
• Six-time German champion in hammer throw and stone throwing
• Seven times improvement of the German hammer throw record
• Three times improvement of the German stone kick record
• East Prussian champion in table tennis

Web links

• Erwin Blask in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )