{ "id": "ept503mxak", "slug": "hans-salz", "title": "Hans Salz", "updated": "2026-10-25", "topic_path": [ { "id": "play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play" }, { "id": "play.individual", "label": "Individual sports and outdoor recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics", "label": "Athletics, gymnastics, and strength sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people", "label": "Athletes of track and field and road running", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "label": "Sprinters and hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.short-sprinters", "label": "Short sprinters", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.short-sprinters" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.short-sprinters.german-sprinters", "label": "German sprinters", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.short-sprinters.german-sprinters" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "label": "Western Europe · 1800 to 1945: Sprinters and hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "path": [ { "id": "geo.weu", "label": "Western Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800", "label": "Western Europe · 1800 to 1945", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.play" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.play.individual", "label": "Individual sports and outdoor recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.play.individual" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics", "label": "Athletics, gymnastics, and strength sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people", "label": "Athletes of track and field and road running", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "label": "Sprinters and hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Hans Salz was a German sprinter from Krefeld who ran the anchor leg on a 4 × 100 m relay team recognized as a world record in 1928.", "snippet": "Hans Salz was a German sprinter from Krefeld who ran the anchor leg on a 4 × 100 m relay team recognized as a world record in 1928.", "node": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.short-sprinters.german-sprinters", "markdown": "# Hans Salz\n\n**Hans Salz** was a German sprinter from Krefeld who studied at the [University of Bonn](https://www.edgepedia.org/university-of-bonn) and was that institution's leading track athlete from 1926 to 1928.[2](https://www.leichtathletik-brs.de/app/download/19810786/A%2B13%2BBedeutung%2Bder%2BUni%2BBonn%2B25.02.2026.pdf) On 10 June 1928 at Halle/Saale he ran the anchor leg of the [Eintracht Frankfurt](https://www.edgepedia.org/eintracht-frankfurt) 4 × 100 m relay with [Ernst Geerling](https://www.edgepedia.org/ernst-geerling), Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichmann, and Adolf Metzner, whose time of 41.0 seconds was officially recognized as a world record.[1](https://ww1000w.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/browse/current/32/section/3/year/1928/sn/edb) He won the 100 m and 200 m titles at the 1927 German university championships and two gold medals at the 1928 University World Games in Paris.[2](https://www.leichtathletik-brs.de/app/download/19810786/A%2B13%2BBedeutung%2Bder%2BUni%2BBonn%2B25.02.2026.pdf) After his active career he worked as an ear, nose, and throat physician in Paderborn.\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| World record | 4 × 100 m relay, 41.0 s, Halle/Saale, 10 June 1928, with Ernst Geerling, Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichmann, and Adolf Metzner[1](https://ww1000w.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/browse/current/32/section/3/year/1928/sn/edb) |\n| University honors | 100 m and 200 m titles at the 1927 German university championships; two gold medals at the 1928 University World Games in Paris[2](https://www.leichtathletik-brs.de/app/download/19810786/A%2B13%2BBedeutung%2Bder%2BUni%2BBonn%2B25.02.2026.pdf) |\n\n## Sprinting career\n\nSalz was a Krefeld sprinter who studied at the University of Bonn and was that institution's leading track athlete from 1926 to 1928.[2](https://www.leichtathletik-brs.de/app/download/19810786/A%2B13%2BBedeutung%2Bder%2BUni%2BBonn%2B25.02.2026.pdf) At a meet in Jena on 1 August 1926 he took bronze over 100 m and silver with the 6 × 100 m relay. On 24 July 1927 at the German university championships in [Königsberg](https://www.edgepedia.org/konigsberg) he won both the 100 m and the 200 m, beating the German champion Helmut Körnig over 100 m.[2](https://www.leichtathletik-brs.de/app/download/19810786/A%2B13%2BBedeutung%2Bder%2BUni%2BBonn%2B25.02.2026.pdf)\n\nHis best individual times came in two seasons. The 1928 ATFS world list records him at 10.7 s, second in his race at the German championship in [Düsseldorf](https://www.edgepedia.org/dusseldorf) on 15 July 1928, with his physical data given as 182 cm and 75 kg.[3](https://atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/1928-Mens-World-Lists-Updated-October2022.pdf) In the same 1928 German championship 100 m final he finished seventh behind [Richard Corts](https://www.edgepedia.org/richard-corts)'s winning 10.4.[4](https://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/Progression-of-IAAF-World-Records-2015/projet/IAAF-WRPB-2015.pdf)\n\n## The 1928 relay season\n\n**World record in Halle.** On 10 June 1928, at an Olympic test meet in Halle/Saale, the Eintracht Frankfurt 4 × 100 m relay of Ernst Geerling, Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichmann, Adolf Metzner, and Salz ran 41.0 seconds. The team used a new baton-exchange technique that became known as the \"Frankfurter Wechsel\" ([Frankfurt](https://www.edgepedia.org/frankfurt) exchange). The time set a German record and equaled the world best time held since 1924 by the US Olympic relay team, and the performance was officially recognized as a world record.[1](https://ww1000w.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/browse/current/32/section/3/year/1928/sn/edb)\n\nLater that summer the same club squad, with [Eugen Eldracher](https://www.edgepedia.org/eugen-eldracher) replacing Wichmann, won the German championship in the 4 × 100 m relay.[1](https://ww1000w.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/browse/current/32/section/3/year/1928/sn/edb) At the 3rd University World Games in Paris on 16 August 1928, Salz won gold for the University of Bonn in both the 4 × 100 m relay and the Swedish relay.[2](https://www.leichtathletik-brs.de/app/download/19810786/A%2B13%2BBedeutung%2Bder%2BUni%2BBonn%2B25.02.2026.pdf)\n\n**Relay record beyond 1928.** Salz had already run on a record-setting Krefeld quartet: on 4 July 1927 in London, the CFC Preußen Krefeld team of Salz, Arthur Wernsing, Hubert Houben, and Jakob Schüller ran 42.2 seconds in the 4 × 110 yards relay.[5](https://www.sport-record.de/leichtathletik/athletics-er.pdf)\n\n## Later life\n\nAfter his active career Salz worked as an ear, nose, and throat physician (Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Arzt) in [Paderborn](https://www.edgepedia.org/paderborn).\n\n## Other people of the same name\n\nThe name Hans Salz refers to several unrelated people. A Hans Salz born in 1907 in Lennep was an anti-fascist mechanic and resistance fighter; arrested by the Gestapo in 1934, he was sentenced in 1935 with other members of the \"Hans Salz\" resistance group to ten years in a penitentiary, and the trial of 59 defendants held 11 to 19 November 1935 before the special court in Hamm, sitting in [Wuppertal](https://www.edgepedia.org/wuppertal), is named after him.[6](https://www.leo-bw.de/en/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/wlbblb_personen/189507608/Salz%20Hans) • [7](https://www.remscheid.de/menschen-soziales/gleichstellung-von-frau-und-mann/download-pool/RZ_Zeitzeuginnen_Web.pdf) Hanuš Salz (1922–2019) was a Czech aviation historian and survivor of Nazi persecution.[8](https://www.pametnaroda.cz/cs/salz-hanus-1922)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Rekord der Frankfurter 4 x 100 m-Staffel, 10. Juni 1928, LAGIS Hessen](https://ww1000w.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/browse/current/32/section/3/year/1928/sn/edb)\n2. [Die Rolle der Universität Bonn in der Geschichte der Leichtathletik der Kreise Bonn und Rhein-Sieg (Wolfgang Rehmer)](https://www.leichtathletik-brs.de/app/download/19810786/A%2B13%2BBedeutung%2Bder%2BUni%2BBonn%2B25.02.2026.pdf)\n3. [1928 World Men List, ATFS (updated October 2022)](https://atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/1928-Mens-World-Lists-Updated-October2022.pdf)\n4. [IAAF World Records Progression, 2015 Edition](https://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/Progression-of-IAAF-World-Records-2015/projet/IAAF-WRPB-2015.pdf)\n5. [Athletics – Progression of European records, sport-record.de (Stephan Müller)](https://www.sport-record.de/leichtathletik/athletics-er.pdf)\n6. [Salz, Hans, LEO-BW](https://www.leo-bw.de/en/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/wlbblb_personen/189507608/Salz%20Hans)\n7. [Die Frauen im Prozess „Hans Salz\", Remscheid](https://www.remscheid.de/menschen-soziales/gleichstellung-von-frau-und-mann/download-pool/RZ_Zeitzeuginnen_Web.pdf)\n8. [Hanuš Salz (1922–2019), Paměť národa](https://www.pametnaroda.cz/cs/salz-hanus-1922)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Sports, games, and recreation › Individual sports and outdoor recreation › Athletics, gymnastics, and strength sports › Athletes of track and field and road running › Sprinters and hurdlers › Short sprinters › German sprinters*\n\n*Initially written Oct 21, 2026 · Edited: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/hans-salz", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/hans-salz.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. 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