Herbert Heinrich
Herbert Henry ( born July 29, 1899 in Leipzig, † March 2, 1975 in Dusseldorf ) was a German swimmers. He won the 1926 and 1927 European champion title in the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay.
Career
Herbert Henry of Poseidon Leipzig was in the first half of the 1920s the best German freestyle shimmer on the short distances. Since the German athletes were excluded but after the First World War in 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, he was only at the first European Swimming Championships, which were held in 1926 in Budapest, compete in an international championship. About 400 meters freestyle, he was in goal seven seconds behind the Swede Arne Borg, but won silver in front of the Darmstadt Friedel mountain. The single season decision, the 4-by- 200-meter freestyle relay was Heinrich final float after August Heitmann, Joachim Rademacher and Friedel mountain; in 9:57,2 minutes won the German team before the Hungarians and the Swedes. The following year, the European Swimming Championships 1927 took place in Bologna. Arne Borg won all three freestyle distances over 400 meters, he had again seven seconds ahead of Henry, who won the silver medal again. The German team won in 9:49,6 minutes before the Swedes and Hungarians.
At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 Heinrich difference over 100 meters freestyle in the flow and over 400 -meter freestyle in the semifinals. The medal chance in the season missed Karl Schubert, August Heitmann, Friedel mountain and Herbert Henry by disqualification in the flow. In 1931, Henry also participates in the third European Swimming Championships in Paris. In 9:48,6 minutes he won together with Karl Schubert, Raymond Deiters and Hans Balk the silver medal behind the Hungarian Season.