Sid Kiel
Sid Kiel (actually Sidney Kiel; * July 18, 1916 in Vrede ; † July 19, 2007 ) was a South African hurdler who specialized in the 110-meter distance .
In 1936 he was nominated for the Olympic Games in Berlin , but, as a Jew , refrained from starting in National Socialist Germany .
At the British Empire Games in Sydney in 1938 , he was fifth. He set his best time over this distance of 14.4 s on October 2, 1937 in Cape Town .
Web links
- Sid Kiel in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English)
- Sid Kiel: The South African who boycotted Hitler's Games , obituary by Maurice Silbert in the South African Medical Journal, Vol. 97, No. 10, October 2007, p. 936
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| SURNAME | Kiel, Sid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kiel, Sidney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African hurdler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vrede |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 2007 |