Juan Reccius

Hans Werner "Juan" Reccius Ellwanger was a Chilean athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He competed in the Athletics at the [1936 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump|men's triple jump] event, but did not advance beyond the qualifying round.
Born in Valdivia, Reccius graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of Chile in 1935, the same year that he was crowned 1935 [South American Championships in Athletics|South American champion] in the triple jump, a title that his older brother Adolfo had held in 1920. As of 2011 he was the last surviving member of the Chilean delegation from the Berlin Olympics and he turned 100 on April 9, 2011.