Helmut Hamann

Olympic medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for Germany
Bronze	1936 Berlin	4x400 metre relay

Helmut Hamann (August 31, 1912 – June 22, 1941) was a German athlete from Berlin who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

Hamann competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Friedrich von Stülpnagel, Harry Voigt and Rudolf Harbig.

Hamann was killed in Siedliszcze in Poland during fighting on the Eastern Front of World War II.

European Champions in Men's 4 x 400 m relay

1934: Germany (Hamann, Scheele, Voigt, Metzner)
1938: Germany (Blazejezak, Bues, Linnhoff, Harbig)
1946: France (Santona, Cros, Chef d’Hotel, 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)