Hugo Strauß
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| Born | 25 June 1907 Mannheim | |||||||||||||
| Died | 1 November 1941 (aged 34) Golodayeva, Sverdlovsk, Russia | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||
| Club | Mannheimer RC | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hugo Strauß (25 June 1907 – 1 November 1941) was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
In 1936 he won the gold medal with his partner Willi Eichhorn in the coxless pair competition. Strauß was 29 at the time he won,[1] it was also the only time he was in the Olympics. Also in 1936 Germany went on to win the Olympics that year.[2] He was killed during WWII while serving on the Eastern Front.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 February 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "A Map of Olympic Medals - Interactive Graphic". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War - Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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- Olympic rowers of Germany
- Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- German male rowers
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- German military personnel killed in World War II
- German rowing Olympic medalist stubs