Hermann Engelhard

Hermann Engelhard, born on 21 June 1903 and died on 6 January 1984, was a German middle-distance runner who won two medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Shortly after finishing second behind Douglas Lowe in the 880 yards at the British AAA Championships that year, he represented Germany at the Amsterdam Games, where he took the bronze medal in the 800 metres. He also helped the German team of Otto Neumann, Harry Werner Storz and Richard Krebs win the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay. After retiring from competition he worked as an athletics coach in Wurttemberg and Hessen together with his wife, and wrote two books on the subject, Leistungsschulung des Mittelstrecklers in 1937 and Der Mittelstreckenlauf in 1950. His brother Richard was an elite long-distance runner in the 1920s, and in 1932 he married Ruth Engelhard, a runner who set three world records. Their son Bernd and daughter Petra also became runners.