Kurt Schneider (athlete)

Kurt Schneider
nation	German Empire
birthday	3rd February 1900
place of birth	Hirschberg ,  German Empire
size	173 cm
Weight	58 kg
date of death	July 26, 1988
Place of death	Bad Oldesloe ,  BR Germany
Career
discipline	Long distance and marathon running
society	TSG Germania Hirschberg
Medal table
German championships 2 × 5 × 1 ×
German championships gold Berlin 1925 25,000 m silver Berlin 1925 10,000 m gold Berlin 1926 25,000 m silver Berlin 1927 10,000 m silver Berlin 1927 25,000 m silver Wroclaw 1927 marathon bronze Düsseldorf 1928 marathon silver Wroclaw 1929 marathon

Kurt Schneider (born February 3, 1900 in Hirschberg , Province of Silesia , † July 26, 1988 in Bad Oldesloe ) was a German marathon runner .

In 1925 and 1926 he was German champion in the 25 km road race .

At the marathon of the German Championships in 1927 he finished second in 3:06:15 h. The following year, on June 17, he finished sixth in 2:43:10 h in the German qualifying race for the Olympic Games on a presumably 40 km long route. Four weeks later he was third in the marathon of the German Championships in Düsseldorf in 2:54:10 h.

At the Olympic marathon in Amsterdam he came in 47th place in 2:59:36 hours.

At the marathon of the German Championships in 1929 he finished second in 3:14:34 h.

literature

• Karl Lennartz : marathon run. Part 3. Verlag Werbung UM Sport, Lohmar 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811512-1-3 , p. 1137

Web links

• Kurt Schneider in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )