Erwin Blask was a German hammer thrower who won the silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, with a mark of 55.04 metres in the final. Born on 20 March 1910 in Gajrowskie in what is now Poland, he competed for Berliner SC. He also took silver at the 1938 European Championships, won national titles in the stone throw in 1933 and 1934 and in the hammer throw in 1935, 1939-40 and 1950-51, and set two world records in the hammer throw in 1938 and two in the stone throw in 1933. He worked in police sport administration, directing the German Police Sports Board for police pentathlon and athletics, and he died in Frankfurt am Main on 6 February 1999.
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