Hans Raff

Hans Raff
Full name	Hans Heinrich Raff
nation	German Empire
birthday	October 30, 1910
place of birth	Osterfeld ,  German Empire
size	167 cm
Weight	61 kg
date of death	May 13, 1990
Place of death	Oberhausen ,  FR Germany
Career
discipline	Long distance running , obstacle course
Best performance	3,000 m obstacle: 9: 21.8 min
society	TB Osterfeld (until 1936) VfL Oberhausen (1936–1946) Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (from 1946)
Trainer	Arthur Lambert
Medal table
German championships 2 × 3 × 2 ×
German championships gold Berlin 1936 5000 m bronze Berlin 1937 5000 m silver Berlin 1940 3000 m obstacle bronze Berlin 1940 5000 m gold Berlin 1941 5000 m silver Berlin 1940 5000 m silver Frankfurt am Main 1946 3 × 1000 m

Hans Heinrich Raff (born October 30, 1910 in Osterfeld , † May 13, 1990 in Oberhausen ) was a German long-distance and obstacle runner .

biography

Hans Raff was born in today's Oberhausen district of Osterfeld. At the German Championships in Berlin in 1936 , he won over 5000 meters. At the Olympic Games , which took place a few weeks later and were also held in Berlin, however, he faced over 3000 m obstacles . However, he could not finish his preliminary run and was eliminated.

With his participation in the Olympics, Raff ensured that athletes from Oberhausen joined VfL Oberhausen , where he was initially active as both an athlete and a coach. After the war, he and all the other athletes in the club joined the SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen .

Web links

• Hans Raff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )