Georg Mickler
{{short description|German middle-distance runner}}
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|birth_date= 7 September 1892
|birth_place= Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
| death_date = 14 June 1915 (aged 22)
| death_place = Tarnów, Małopolskie, Poland
|sport=Athletics
|event= middle-distance
|club= SC Charlottenburg
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Alfred Georg Mickler (7 September 1892 – 14 June 1915) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/georg-mickler-1.html |title=Georg Mickler |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801074818/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/georg-mickler-1.html |archivedate=1 August 2015 }}
Biography
Mickler was selected to represent Germany at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. He was eliminated in the first round of the 1500 metres competition. He was also a member of the German team which was eliminated in the first round of the 3000 metres team race by Sweden.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70411 |title=Georg Mickler |work=Olympedia |access-date=18 April 2021}}
The following year, he finished third behind John Zander in the 1 mile event at the British 1913 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19130707/225/0014 |title=Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=7 July 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19130707/144/0006 |title=Athletic Feats |work=Sporting Life |date=7 July 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 November 2024 }}
Mickler was killed in action during World War I in Poland.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107022804/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archivedate=7 November 2014 }}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath06dem.html list of German athletes]
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Category:German male middle-distance runners
Category:Olympic athletes for Germany
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:German military personnel killed in World War I
Category:20th-century German sportsmen
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