Karl Sutter (10 May 1914 – 14 September 2003) was a German
track and field athlete who competed in the
pole vault.
Born in
Basel, Switzerland, he was a member of
FC Freiburg sports club and chose to compete internationally for Germany.
[Klaus Amrhein in DGLD-Bulletin Nr. 57/2010, Seite 285.] His first success at national level came in 1937, when he was runner-up at the
German Athletics Championships to
Julius Müller. He only reached the national podium on one more occasion, in 1939 when he was second to Austria's
Josef Haunzwickel (who competed due to the
Anschluss).
In spite of his failure to claim a national title in his career, he was the winner at the
1938 European Athletics Championships
The 2nd European Athletics Championships was a continental athletics competition for European athletes which was held in two places in 1938. The men's event took place in Paris, France between 3–5 September while the women's events were in Vien ...
. Following in the footsteps of his compatriot
Gustav Wegner
Gustav Wegner (4 January 1903 – 7 June 1942) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the pole vault and the decathlon. He was the first ever European Athletics Championships, European champion in the pole vault and the first German ...
(the 1934 winner), he defeated
Bo Ljungberg
Bo Alexander Ljungberg (21 November 1911 – 19 March 1984) was a Swedish athlete. He won two silver medals in the pole vault at the European Championships and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics as both a pole vaulter and a triple jumper.
Care ...
and won in a
championship record
The sports under the umbrella of athletics, particularly track and field, use a variety of statistics. In order to report that information efficiently, numerous abbreviations have grown to be common in the sport. Starting in 1948 by Bert Nelson a ...
mark of .
European Championships (Men)
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-19. Given the onset of World War II, he did not compete at any further international athletics competitions and the European gold medal remained the highlight of his short career.
Sutter died in 2003 in Spandau, Berlin.[
]
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutter, Karl
1914 births
2003 deaths
German male pole vaulters
Sportspeople from Basel-Stadt
European Athletics Championships medalists