Otto Herschmann

Otto Herschmann
Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Austria
Men's swimming
Silver 1896 Athens 100 m freestyle
Men's fencing
Silver 1912 Stockholm Team sabre

Dr. Otto Herschmann (4 January 1877 – 14 June 1942) was a Jewish Austrian swimmer, fencer, lawyer, and sport official. He is one of only three athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports.[1]

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Olympic swimming career

Born in Vienna, Herschmann first competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, in the 100 metres freestyle event. He placed second with a time of 1:22.8, .6 seconds behind the winner Alfréd Hajós.[2]

Olympic fencing career

Herschmann returned to Olympic competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden competing as a member of Austria's fencing team. A sabre fencer, he won a silver medal in the team competition.[2]

At that time he was serving as president of the Austrian Olympic Committee. He is the only president of a National Olympic Committee to win a medal while holding office.[3]

Concentration camp and death

Herschmann was arrested in Vienna by the Nazis, and deported on 14 January 1942, to the Sobibór extermination camp. He died in the Izbica concentration camp in German-occupied Poland later that year.[4]

Hall of Fame

Herschmann, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

On 7 November 2001 his hometown Vienna named a lane Otto-Herschmann-Gasse in Simmering.

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