Rudolf Burkert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Burkert

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1904

Place of Birth: Polubný, Liberec Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1985

Profession: ski jumper, Nordic combined skier

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Rudolf Burkert (31 October 1904 – 7 June 1985) was an Ethnic German Czechoslovak Nordic skier who competed in the 1920s and 1930s.
He won a bronze medal in the ski jumping individual large hill competition at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St.
Moritz, the first Winter Olympics medal in Czechoslovak history.
He also finished 12th in the nordic combined event at those Olympics. Burkert won two medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, earning a nordic combined gold in 1927 and a ski jumping silver in 1933. He was born in Polubný, Korenov, Bohemia.
In 1968 he emigrated to West Germany, where he died in 1985.