Hugo Kuranda

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameHugo Artur•Kuranda
Used nameHugo•Kuranda
Born29 May 1910 in Wien (Vienna), Wien (AUT)
NOC Austria

Biography

Hugo Kuranda was an Austrian skeleton racer who could not finish the first run at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Olympics due to a fall. He worked as a journalist and was Reuters Vienna correspondent before World War II. After the war he became Swiss correspondent for the Daily Mail.

Kuranda was acquitted in 1937 by a Wien (Vienna) court on a charge of having disturbed public order and security by sending a dispatch to his London bureau concerning Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath’s alleged proposal to Austria to conclude a defensive pact with Germany, Hungary and Italy.

Kuranda then appeared in the “Germany, index of Jews whose German nationality was annulled by the Nazi Regime, 1935-1944” record on Ancestry. He was also listed as a stateless person in 1940 when he unsuccessfully attempted to emigrate to Canada.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1948 Winter Olympics Skeleton (Bobsleigh) AUT Hugo Kuranda
Skeleton, Men (Olympic) DNF