Kurt Doerry

{{Short description|German track and field athlete}}

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Kurt Wilhelm Doerry (24 September 1874 – 4 January 1947) was a German track and field athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/kurt-doerry-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417221504/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/kurt-doerry-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Kurt Doerry Olympic Results |accessdate=2012-10-04 |work=sports-reference.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70207 |title=Kurt Doerry |work=Olympedia |accessdate=20 December 2020}}

Doerry was 21 years old when he competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics, there he entered three events, in the 100 metres he finished fifth in his heat, so he did not qualify for the final.{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/results/56000 |title=100 metres, Men |work=Olympedia |access-date=20 August 2021}}{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Round One|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-100-metres-round-one.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417094325/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-100-metres-round-one.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=17 April 2017}} In the 400 metres, again he failed to finish in the top two in his heat so did not qualify for the final,{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Round One|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-400-metres-round-one.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417094557/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-400-metres-round-one.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=17 April 2017}} his final event was the 110 metres hurdles, and yet again he finished outside the top two and didn't progress to the final.{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games: Men's 110 metres Hurdles Round One|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-110-metres-hurdles-round-one.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417094548/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-110-metres-hurdles-round-one.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=17 April 2017}}

Later in 1896, Doerry won the 100 and 200 metres at the German Championships,{{cite web|title=100 years of athletics in Berlin - (Exhibition)|url=http://www.rainer-doerry.de/Ahnenforschung/html/Doerry/docs/100-jahre-leichtathletik-in-berlin.pdf|website=rainer-doerry.de|accessdate=18 April 2017}} and in 1899 he won the German titles in the 200 and 400 metres.

Doerry also competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, he entered the 100 metres, in the first round he finished second behind American Clark Leiblee so qualified for semi-final,{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Round One|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-100-metres-round-one.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417052351/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-100-metres-round-one.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=18 April 2017}} in the semi-final he didn't finish the race.{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Semi-Finals|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-100-metres-semi-finals.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417052353/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-100-metres-semi-finals.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=18 April 2017}}

Apart from athletics, he was also a good figure skater, cyclist and tennis player, as well as an international hockey player and a boxing referee.

In 1909, Doerry was a founding member of the Deutscher Hockey-Bund and was its first president until 1914.{{cite web|title=History DHB|url=http://www.hockey.de/VVI-web/Faszination/DHB-Historie.asp|website=hockey.de|accessdate=18 April 2017}}

Doerry was also a journalist and author and worked many years for German newspaper Sport Im Bild and would become editor-in-chief until World War II, he would also write many books concerning an athletic theme.