Erwin Blask

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Erwin Blask

| image = Erwin Blask, vice-champion d'Europe du lancement du marteau en 1938.jpg

| caption = Blask in 1938

| birth_date = 20 March 1910

| birth_place = Friedrichsheyde, East Prussia

| death_date = 6 February 1999 (aged 88)

| death_place = Frankfurt, Germany

| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's athletics}}

{{MedalCountry | {{flagicon|GER|Nazi}} Germany}}

}}

Erwin Blask (March 20, 1910 – February 6, 1999) was a German athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw event. He won the silver medal for Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bl/erwin-blask-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173019/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bl/erwin-blask-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Erwin Blask Olympic Results |accessdate=20 January 2018}}

Biography

Blask was born in Friedrichsheyde, East Prussia (today Gajrowskie, Poland)

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Blask won the silver medal in the men's hammer throw competition behind his fellow German Karl Hein.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70161 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=18 January 2025}}

Blask finished second behind Karl Hein again in the hammer throw event at the British 1937 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19370717/014/0014 |title=The Athletic Championships |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=17 July 1937 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=18 January 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000671/19370719/011/0011 |title=Six records go by the board at White City |work=Evening Despatch |date=19 July 1937 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=18 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=18 January 2025 }}

He died in Frankfurt am Main.