mypinholepinups: Ernst Schultz was a Danish sprinter who won a bronze medal in the 400 m event at th
mypinholepinups: Ernst Schultz was a Danish sprinter who won a bronze medal in the 400 m event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. In the 1898-99 athletics season, Schultz had set Danish records in the 200 metres and quarter-mile distances and in 1899 he won the 150 metre national title when running for the Københavns IF club. The following year, just after his 21st birthday, he traveled to Paris to participate in the 1900 Summer Olympics in the joint Danish-Swedish team. He was the youngest of the 13 man team. Besides athletics Schultz also competed in rowing and association football, then on 20 June 1906, just one month and five days after his 27th birthday he drowned while trying to rescue his rowing partner 20 year old footballer Thorald Petersen Høyen when their boat capsized in the Roskilde Fjord. [from Wikipedia] Aesthetes and Athletes. Paul Richer, as a professor of artistic anatomy, photographed many French and visiting athletes to further his studies. -- source link