Richard Corts
{{Short description|German sprinter (1905–1974)}}
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|caption=Corts (right) in 1928
|birth_date= 16 July 1905
|birth_place= Remscheid, German Empire
| death_date = 7 August 1974 (aged 69)
| death_place = Remscheid, West Germany
| height = 177 cm
| weight = 68 kg
|sport=Athletics
|event= Sprint
|club= Deutscher Sportclub Berlin
|pb= 100 m – 10.4 (1928)
200 m – 21.8 (1925)
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Richard Corts (16 July 1905 – 7 August 1974) was a German sprinter who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Career
At the 1928 Olympic Games, Corts won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, together with Georg Lammers, Hubert Houben and Helmut Körnig, and failed to reach the final of individual 100 m event.
Corts won the national 100 m title in 1925 and 1928. He set a European record over 100 m in 1925 (10.5) and equaled the world record of 10.4 in 1928. He was part of the German 4 × 100 m relay team that set a world record at 40.8 in 1928. Corts won the British AAA Championships title in the 100 yards event at the 1926 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000325/19260703/038/0007 |title=AAA Championships |work=Gloucester Citizen |date=3 July 1926 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=4 January 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19260705/210/0011 |title=Champion Athletes |work=Daily News (London) |date=5 July 1926 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=4 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=4 January 2025 }}
Corts retired from athletics in 1930. After completing a professional studying in Helsinki for two years, he took over his father's knife factory (Josua Corts) in his native Remscheid. He committed suicide at the age of 69.
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Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Category:German male sprinters
Category:Olympic athletes for Germany
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Category:Sportspeople from Remscheid
Category:Athletes from Düsseldorf (region)
Category:Sportspeople from the Rhine Province
Category:Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:20th-century German sportsmen
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