Vincenz Duncker

Vincent Duncker (* 9. November 1884 in Wepener , Orange Free State , South Africa , † after 1910) was a German athlete and medalist at the Olympic Games , in 1906 in the interludes in Athens the bronze medal in the 110-meter hurdles won.

Vincenz Duncker had a father who was born in Germany ( Schleswig-Holstein ) and who emigrated to South Africa, where Vincenz was born. After the Second Boer War , the family returned to Germany in 1902. The father received the city charter in Dresden and thus he and his son Vincenz received German citizenship.

From 1903 to 1904 Vincenz Duncker worked as a trainee in the training factory at the Mittweida technical center . From 1904 to 1907 he studied electrical engineering at the technical center. From 1905 he was a member of the " Mittweidaer Ballspiel-Club am Technikum Mittweida eV " in the sports of athletics and soccer and took part in national and international athletics competitions. Vincenz Duncker won the German championship in the 110-meter hurdles three times in a row from 1905 to 1907 and in 1906 he took part in the Interim Olympiad in Athens for Germany. Vincenz Duncker won the bronze medal in the 110 meter hurdles. In 1906 and 1907 he was also German champion in the runs over 100 and 400 meters, where he started at the championships in 1907 for the Dresdner SC . In 1907 he and his family returned to South Africa.

South Africa registered Duncker, who was now a professional runner, for the 1908 Olympic Games in London for the 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter, 110 meter hurdles, 400 meter hurdles and a relay. He was probably prevented from taking part because the claim was spread in Germany at the time that Duncker had smuggled himself into the German team for the 1906 Games with the false claim that he was a German citizen.

After 1908 his track is lost; in 1911 his father only wrote in a letter to the Technikum Mittweida that his son was working as an engineer in a gold mine.

Web links

• Vincenz Duncker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

• Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world . Hochschule Mittweida (Ed.): Mittweida 2014, p. 36 f.
• Fritz Steinmetz: 75 years of the German Athletics Championships (1898–1972) . Bartels & Wernitz publishing house, Berlin 1973.