Eugen Schmidt sports discipline competed in gymnastics
Background
Schmidt was an active sportsman and an outstanding athlete, practicing several modalities such as gymnastics, rowing, athletics, tennis, football, fencing, skating, golf and swimming. He was particularly interested in English sport, visiting England several times. In Denmark, the first athletics event was held by the Københavns Roklub in 1886 at the initiative of sports pioneers such as Jørgen Peter Müller and himself, being the chairman of Københavns Roklub, the second oldest rowing club in the country. He also became a board member of the Danish Rowing Federation, for which he served as chairman between 1894 and 1896.
In 1896 he co-founded DIF, the Danish Sports Federation. Between 1885 and 1899 he was a brewmaster at Carlsberg. He would also write for a sports magazine and had a few sports books published.
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