Rudi Dobermann

Rudolf Dobermann was a German athlete. He competed in the long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics and finished 18th. His club was the Marienburger SC of Cologne.

Biography

Dobermann first trained in gymnastics and then changed to athletics, winning the German long jump title in 1925–1927; he finished third in the shot put in 1930.
Dobermann won the British AAA Championships title in the long jump event at the 1927 AAA Championships.
He set a European record at 7.64 m in 1928. In 1930 he immigrated to São Paulo, Brazil, where he first worked as a coach with the German School, with which he won the state college athletics championships of 1931. He was also one of the three coaches for the athletes of the state of São Paulo which participated in the Latin-American Championships of the same year. From 1934 he was a coach and official with the Brazilian Athletics Confederation. Later he became a businessman.