Richard Corts

Richard Corts ( born July 3, 1905 in Remscheid, † August 7, 1974 in Remscheid ) was a German track and field athlete and Olympic medal winner.

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 he won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meters relay together with Georg Lammers, Hubert Houben and Helmut grained, with Richard Corts took as second runner. He took in these Olympic Games also on the 100-meter individual race part, but different in the semifinals of. On September 2, 1928 in Berlin undercutting the German sprint relay with Jonath, Corts, Houben and grainy in 40.8 s the world record of the U.S. Olympic champion, but this improvement achieved on a 600 - meter track, so with a curve less than at the Olympic Games.

1925 and 1928 Corts was German champion in the 100 -meter run, which he launched in 1925 for the Stuttgarter Kickers and 1928 for the DSC Berlin. During his championship success in 1928 on 15 July 1928, he turned in 10.4 s on his personal best; this time made ​​a world record by the American Charles Paddock, but was not officially recognized by the IAAF as a world record. At a size of 1.77 m Corts had a competition weight of 68 kg. He died by suicide.