Erhard Minder

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| birth_place = Neftenbach, Switzerland

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| death_place = Aarau, Switzerland

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Erhard "Hardy" Minder (16 January 1925 – 15 January 2002) was a Swiss modern pentathlete and handball player.

Pentathlon

He competed at the 1952 Men's team where they ranked 9 out of 16 and in the men's single he ranked 35 out of 51.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics he ranked with the team 11 out of 17 and men's single 19 out of 60.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/erhard-minder-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701171844/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/erhard-minder-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 July 2017 |title=Erhard Minder Olympic Results |access-date=16 July 2012 |work=sports-reference.com}}{{cite web |title=Hardy Minder |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/35037 |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=23 January 2022}}

Handball

He played at the latest since 1948 for STV Winterthur.{{Cite news |last=M |first=A |date=14 August 1948 |title=Zürcher Handballturnier |url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NZN19480814-04.2.7&srpos=17&dliv=none&e=--1940--02-1950--de-20--1-byDA.rev-img-txIN-Minder-------0----- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427141714/https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NZN19480814-04.2.7&srpos=17&dliv=none&e=--1940--02-1950--de-20--1-byDA.rev-img-txIN-Minder-------0----- |archive-date=27 April 2025 |access-date=27 April 2025 |work=Neue Zürcher Nachrichten |pages=2 (4. Blatt) |language=de |volume=44 |issue=189}}

Pfadi Winterthur (German: Pfadi = English: Scouting) was a scouting only handball club. After an extraordinary general meeting of in February 1950 this rule was abandoned and Minder was the first non scout which joined Pfadi Winterthur.{{Cite web |date=August 2024 |title=Die Klubgeschichte seit der Vereinsgründung 1938 |url=https://www.pfadi-winterthur.ch/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Dokumentation-Vereinsgeschichte.pdf#page=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427135237/https://www.pfadi-winterthur.ch/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Dokumentation-Vereinsgeschichte.pdf#page=2 |archive-date=27 April 2025 |access-date=27 April 2025 |publisher=Pfadi Winterthur |language=de |format=PDF}}

He played at least until 1958 for Pfadi Winterthur.{{Cite news |last=f |first=w |date=1 October 1958 |title=Allerlei Ueberraschung auf den Handballfeldern |url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=DBB19581001-02.2.44.6&srpos=8&dliv=none&e=--1954---1960--de-20--1-byDA.rev-img-txIN-Minder-------0----- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427142713/https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=DBB19581001-02.2.44.6&srpos=8&dliv=none&e=--1954---1960--de-20--1-byDA.rev-img-txIN-Minder-------0----- |archive-date=27 April 2025 |access-date=27 April 2025 |work=Der Bund |pages=9 |language=de |volume=109 |issue=438}}

He played only two games for the Switzerland men's national field handball team at the tour to the Iberian Peninsula he played against Portugal on 13. May 1951 any against Spain on 19. May 1951. He shot one goal against Spain.{{Cite web |title=1951 Portugal - Schweiz in Porto |url=https://www.handball.ch/de/buecher/feldhandball-nationalmannschaft/band-2-1948-bis-1951/1951-portugal-schweiz-in-porto/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427140252/https://www.handball.ch/de/buecher/feldhandball-nationalmannschaft/band-2-1948-bis-1951/1951-portugal-schweiz-in-porto/ |archive-date=27 April 2025 |access-date=27 April 2025 |publisher=Swiss Handball Association |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=1951 Spanien - Schweiz in Madrid |url=https://www.handball.ch/de/buecher/feldhandball-nationalmannschaft/band-2-1948-bis-1951/1951-spanien-schweiz-in-madrid/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427140400/https://www.handball.ch/de/buecher/feldhandball-nationalmannschaft/band-2-1948-bis-1951/1951-spanien-schweiz-in-madrid/ |archive-date=27 April 2025 |access-date=27 April 2025 |publisher=Swiss Handball Association |language=de}}

For the indoor team he played one game at the 1954 World Men's Handball Championship against Germany. He scored no goal.

References

External links

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[https://www.handball.ch/de/nationalteams/hall-of-fame/spieler/1/273338 List of indoor handball games]
[https://www.handball.ch/de/nationalteams/hall-of-fame/spieler/36/273338 List of field handball games]

Category:1925 births

Category:2002 deaths

Category:Swiss male modern pentathletes

Category:Olympic modern pentathletes for Switzerland

Category:Modern pentathletes at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Category:Modern pentathletes at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Category:Swiss male handball players

Category:People from Winterthur District

Category:Sportspeople from the canton of Zürich

Category:20th-century Swiss sportsmen