ELECTED MEMBERS
   
Last NameSportCountryYear Inducted
OTTO HERSCHMANN

Sport: Swimming/Fencing
Inducted: 1989
Country: Austria
Born: January 4, 1877 in Vienna, Austria
Died: 1942

Dr. Herschmann is one of only three athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports. He won a silver medal swimming the 100-Meter Freestyle in 1896 at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens and a bronze medal in Team Sabre (fencing) at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

Coincidentally, Herschmann also served as president of the Austrian Olympic Committee during the 1912 Games, and as such was the only president of a National Olympic Committee to win an Olympic medal while in office.

Dr. Herschmann was arrested in Vienna by the Nazis and deported on January 14th, 1942 to the Sobibor concentration camp. He died there later that year.

 
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