Kurt Doerry
Kurt Wilhelm Doerry (born September 24, 1874 in Wilhelmshaven , † January 4, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German track and field athlete , Olympic participant and sports journalist.
Life
On September 20, 1896, he achieved a time of 1: 09.0 min in a 500-meter run in Dresden , which was the first German record in athletics and was also a world best. In 1896, 1897 and 1899 he set further German best performances on distances of 50 to 400 meters , and in 1899 he was German champion in the 200-meter run . In 1896 he was also the winner of the Crown Prince Cup of Denmark
At the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , he took part in the 100 and 400-meter run and was eliminated in the preliminary run. At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 he started in the 100-meter run and was eliminated in the intermediate run. In 1904 he ended his sports career. Kurt Doerry belonged to the sports club Sport-Excelsior Friedenau . During his competition time he was 1.79 m tall and weighed 73 kg.
Since the end of the 19th century he was a sports journalist - as editor of the Allgemeine Sportzeitung and later of the magazine Sport im Bild (1895) and Sport im Wort (1899) founded by the Scotsman Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles . As a member of the German Reich Committee for the Olympic Games, later the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise , he enjoyed a high reputation. From 1909 to 1919 he was chairman of the hockey association and took an active part in hockey.
In 1910 he was a founding member of the German Sport Press Association and from 1911 its first chairman. In 1928 he was elected to the Presidium of the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive in Amsterdam . His last sporting activity was probably in 1937 when he was 63 years old. At the sports festival of the BFC Germania 1888 in Lichtenrade, he still ran the 50-meter distance in 7.5 seconds. His best time in this discipline was 5.6 s for decades.
Web links
- Kurt Doerry in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Steinmetz : 100 years of athletics in Berlin. (No longer available online.) 1987, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; retrieved on September 9, 2015 (published in the program for the Berlin Marathon 1987). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Doerry, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doerry, Kurt Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete, Olympic participant and sports journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmshaven |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1947 |
| Place of death | Berlin |