Adolf Metzner

{{short description|German sprinter}}

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Adolf Metzner (25 April 1910 in Frankenthal – 5 March 1978 in Hamburg) was a German athlete who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. After finishing his career due to Achilles tendon rupture he became a carpenter in the Bavaria region of Germany.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/adolf-metzner-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417222313/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/adolf-metzner-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|accessdate=9 May 2012}} In 1947 he worked with Ernst Gadermann to develop the first telemetric measurements of the ECG in athletes.