Walter Schönrock

Walter Schönrock
nation	German Empire
birthday	April 10, 1912
place of birth	Berlin ,  German Empire
size	167 cm
Weight	55 kg
date of death	March 19, 1996
Place of death	Wittenberg ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	10,000 m: 30: 49.1 min
society	KTV Wittenberg
Medal table
German championships 4 × 2 × 5 ×
German championships bronze Dresden 1934 Cross-country team competition gold Wittenberg 1935 Cross-country team competition bronze Wittenberg 1935 Cross-country run bronze Berlin 1935 10,000 m gold Freiburg im Breisgau 1936 Cross-country team competition gold Berlin 1937 10,000 m gold Frankfurt am Main 1937 4 × 1500 m silver Wroclaw 1938 10,000 m bronze Darmstadt 1939 3 × 1000 m bronze Berlin 1942 10,000 m silver Berlin 1942 3 × 1000 m

Walter Schönrock (born April 10, 1912 in Berlin , † March 19, 1996 in Wittenberg ) was a German long-distance runner .

biography

Walter Schönrock competed over 10,000 meters at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and finished 21st. Schönrock was able to win a total of four gold medals at German championships .

Schönrock's teammates Max Syring and Karl-Heinz Becker were also his brothers-in-law. His granddaughter Sybille Schönrock won a silver medal as a swimmer at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow .

Web links

• Walter Schönrock in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )