Hugo Hardy Explained

Hugo Hardy
Fullname:	Hugo James Hardy
Birth Date:	16 October 1877
Birth Place:	Hamburg, Germany^[1]
Death Place:	Berlin, Germany

Hugo James Hardy (16 October 1877  - 8 October 1936) was a German tennis player and jurist. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, where he was the only non-American competitor.^{[2] [3]}

A lawyer, Hardy was on the board of an early version of the Deutschen Reichsausschuß für Olympische Spiele (DRA), a predecessor to the German Olympic Committee that oversaw sports in the Weimar Republic.^[4]

Hardy was born in Hamburg, the son of banker James Nathan Hardy and Helena Ida Noemie Cahn.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Hamburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901
2. Web site: Hugo Hardy Olympic Results . 27 January 2014 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201225713/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/hugo-hardy-1.html . 1 February 2014 .
3. Web site: Hugo Hardy . Olympedia . 21 February 2021.
4. Book: Court. Jürgen. Deutsche Sportwissenschaft in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus. Band 2. 2014. LIT Verlag Münster. 9783643125583. 34. 24 July 2017. de.
5. Hamburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901