Franz Wanderer

Franz Wanderer
nation	German Empire
birthday	February 20, 1901
place of birth	Ilmenau ,  German Empire
size	174 cm
Weight	62 kg
job	Tax clerk
date of death	1944
Career
discipline	Marathon run
Best performance	2:48:57 h
society	VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde
Medal table
German championships 3 × 2 × 2 ×
German championships silver Berlin 1926 25,000 m bronze Braunschweig 1926 Marathon run gold Wroclaw 1927 Marathon run gold Düsseldorf 1928 Marathon run gold Wroclaw 1929 Marathon run silver Berlin 1930 Marathon run bronze Berlin 1931 Marathon run

Franz Wanderer (born February 20, 1901 in Ilmenau , † 1944 ) was a German marathon runner .

Services

• 1924 and 1925: Master of the Reichswehr .

• 1926: Second in the German Fighting Games and third in the German Championship in Braunschweig .

• 1927: German champion in the marathon in 2:58:30 h. in Wroclaw

• June 17, 1928: Fifth in 2:39:00 h in the German qualifying race for the Olympic Games on an allegedly 40 km long track. Four weeks later he won the DM in Düsseldorf with his personal best of 2:48:57 h. He gave up at the Olympic marathon in Amsterdam .

• 1929: he defended his title in 3:07:16 h. in Wroclaw

• A second place followed in 1930 and a third place in 1931 .

literature

• Karl Lennartz : marathon run. Part 3. Verlag Werbung UM Sport, Lohmar 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811512-1-3 , p. 1146f.

Web links

• Franz Wanderer in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English)
• Franz Wanderer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )