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Rudolf Harbig
Personal information
Born
(1913-11-08)8 November 1913 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Died
5 March 1944(1944-03-05) (aged 30) Olkhovets, Zvenyhorodka Raion, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Sport
Club
Dresdner SC Eintracht Braunschweig
Medal record
Men’s athletics
Representing Germany
Olympic Games
1936 Berlin
4x400 metre relay
European Championships
1938 Paris
800 metres
Rudolf Waldemar Harbig (8 November 1913 – 5 March 1944) was a German athlete. As a middle distance runner he was best known for the 800 metres world record that he set in Milan in 1939. He also held the European record in the 400 metres from 1939 until 1955.
Rudolf Waldemar Harbig (8 November 1913 – 5 March 1944) was a German athlete. As a middle distance runner he was best known for the 800 metres world record...
The RudolfHarbig Memorial Award (German: Rudolf-Harbig-Gedächtnispreis) is an annual sports award in recognition of German competitors in the sport of...
the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, which was opened in 1923, and also originally named the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion after local track and field athlete Rudolf Harbig...
sporting events in Dresden. Major sporting facilities in Dresden are the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion and the EnergieVerbund Arena for ice...
in East Berlin and Dresden. The venue, the Blüherwiese, next to the Rudolf–Harbig–Stadion, bears the vernacular name Cockerwiese ('Cocker meadow') today...
and Wilhelm Leichum — Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m Relay Helmut Hamann, RudolfHarbig, Harry Voigt, and Friedrich von Stülpnagel — Athletics, Men's 4 × 400...
interval training and coached several world-record holders such as RudolfHarbig, Gordon Pirie and Roger Moens. Gerschler was born in Meißen on 14 June...
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