August von Gödrich

August Gödrich ( born September 25, 1859 in Gerlsdorf, † March 16, 1942 in Fulnek ) was a German athlete. He is also with the name August Edler von Gödrich or Anton is (from) Gödrich.

August Gödrich initially served as an officer in the imperial Army and later worked in a bicycle factory. In 1887, he moved to Athens, where he visited the Middle East by bicycle. Later he made a trip with a 45 pound unicycle across Europe and subsequently reported adventurous experiences. He is said to have mastered twelve languages. In 1891 he participated in the Congress of the German Cycling Union partly in Berlin, which he traveled all of Athens, while the distance from Brindisi to Berlin lay back by bike. In the same year he exhibited at the Penny Farthing two records: 12 hours for 301.1 km, 24 hours for 523.5 km.

Gödrich, who was a resident landlords in Athens and therefore started for Greece, finished at the Olympic Games in 1896 a second place in the road race and thus won the bronze medal. He was despite a heavy crash in the road race over 87 km from Athens to Marathon and back in 3:42:18 hours Second behind the Greeks Aristidis Konstantinidis.

1936 Gödrich was invited as guest of honor at the Olympic Games in Berlin. The route from his residence to Berlin Opava put the 76 -year-old back with the bike.