August Schmierer
Appearance
![]() Germany, represented by FC 1880 Frankfurt, at the 1900 Summer Olympics. (Schmierer on the ground, first from right.) | |||||||||||||||||
Birth name | August Schmierer | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 28 April 1870 | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | unknown | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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August Schmierer (28 April 1870 – ?) was a German rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
He was a member of the German rugby union team, which won the silver medal. Germany was represented at the tournament mainly by the FC 1880 Frankfurt rather than an official national team.[1] Schmierer had left Frankfurt in 1897 and was in 1900 already chairman of the Cannstatter Fußball-Club. But he was invited to the olympic tournament by his former club.[2]
References
- ^ Die Gründerjahre des deutschen Rugbysports Archived October 25, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (in German) DRV website - Foundation years, accessed: 3 April 2010
- ^ Heineken, Philipp (1930). Erinnerungen an den Cannstatter Fussball-Club [Memories of the Cannstatter Fussball-Club] (in German). Heidelberg: Verlag Hermann Meister. pp. 86–88.
External links
- August Schmierer at ESPNscrum
- August Schmierer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1870 births
- German rugby union players
- Rugby union players at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby union players of Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- SC 1880 Frankfurt players
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- German Olympic medalist stubs
- German sportspeople stubs
- European rugby union biography stubs