Klara Milch

Klara Milch (born May 24, 1891 in İzmir ; † July 13, 1970 in Multan ) was an Austrian , Jewish swimmer .

Career

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, swimming competitions for women were on the program for the first time. On July 8th, Milch was eliminated in the first run in the 100 meter freestyle competition. On July 15, 1912, Margarete Adler , Klara Milch, Josephine Sticker and Bertha Zahourek won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100-meter freestyle relay behind the relays from the United Kingdom and Germany. This made the four swimmers the first Austrian women to win an Olympic medal.

literature

Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .
Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

Klara Milch in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Paul Taylor: Jews and the Olympic Games . The clash between sports and politics. Sussex Academic Press, 2004, ISBN 1-903900-87-5 , pp. 236 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Milk, Clare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	İzmir
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1970
Place of death	Multan , Punjab, Pakistan

[1] Paul Taylor: Jews and the Olympic Games . The clash between sports and politics. Sussex Academic Press, 2004, ISBN 1-903900-87-5 , pp. 236 ( online ).