Adolf Metzner

Adolf Metzner (25 April 1910 – 5 March 1978) was a German athlete who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. After finishing his career due to Achilles tendon rupture he became a carpenter in the Bavaria region of Germany.^[1]

References

↑ "Olympics". sports-reference. Retrieved 9 May 2012.

European Champions in Men's 400 m

1934: Adolf Metzner (GER)
1938: Godfrey Brown (GBR)
1946: Niels Holst-Sørensen (DEN)
1950: Derek Pugh (GBR)
1954: Ardalion Ignatyev (URS)
1958: John Wrighton (GBR)
1962: Robbie Brightwell (GBR)
1966: Stanisław Grędziński (POL)
1969: Jan Werner (POL)
1971: David Jenkins (GBR)
1974: Karl Honz (FRG)
1978: Franz-Peter Hofmeister (FRG)
1982: Hartmut Weber (FRG)
1986–90: Roger Black (GBR)
1994: Du'aine Ladejo (GBR)
1998: Iwan Thomas (GBR)
2002: Ingo Schultz (GER)
2006: Marc Raquil (FRA)
2010: Kevin Borlée (BEL)
2012: Pavel Maslák (CZE)
2014: Martyn Rooney (GBR)

European Champions in men's 4 × 400 metres relay

1934: Germany (Hamann, Scheele, Voigt, Metzner)
1938: Germany (Blazejezak, Bues, Linnhoff, Harbig)
1946: France (Santona, Cros, Chef d’Hôtel, Lunis)
1950: Great Britain (Pike, Lewis, Scott, Pugh)
1954: France (Haarhoff, Degats, Martin-du-Gard, Goudeau)
1958: Great Britain (Sampson, MacIsaac, Wrighton, Salisbury)
1962: West Germany (Kindermann, Schmitt, Reske, Kinder)
1966: Poland (Werner, Borowski, Grędziński, Badeński)
1969: France (Bertould, Nicolau, Carette, Nallet)
1971: West Germany (Schlöske, Jordan, Jellinghaus, Köhler)
1974: Great Britain (Cohen, Hartley, Pascoe, Jenkins)
1978: West Germany (Weppler, Hofmeister, Herrmann, Schmid)
1982: West Germany (Skamrahl, Schmid, Giessing, Weber)
1986: Great Britain (Redmond, Akabusi, Whittle, Black)
1990: Great Britain (Sanders, Akabusi, Regis, Black)
1994: Great Britain (McKenzie, Black, Whittle, Ladejo)
1998: Great Britain (Hylton, Baulch, Thomas, Richardson)
2002: Great Britain (Deacon, Elias, Baulch, Caines)
2006: France (Djhone, M'Barke, Keïta, Raquil)
2010: Russia (Dyldin, Aksyonov, Krasnov, Trenikhin)
2012: Belgium (Gillet, J. Borlée, Bouckaert, K. Borlée)
2014: Great Britain (Rooney, Bingham, Williams, Hudson-Smith)

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