{{short description|German middle-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Use British English|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name= Georg Mickler |image= |caption= |birth_date= 7 September 1892 |birth_place= Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany | death_date = 14 June 1915 (aged 22) | death_place = Tarnów, Małopolskie, Poland |sport=Athletics |event= middle-distance |club= SC Charlottenburg | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = }}
'''Alfred Georg Mickler''' (7 September 1892 – 14 June 1915) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.<ref name="Georg Mickler">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/georg-mickler-1.html |title=Georg Mickler |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801074818/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/georg-mickler-1.html |archivedate=1 August 2015 }}</ref>
== Biography == Mickler was selected to represent Germany at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. He was eliminated in the first round of the 1500 metres competition. He was also a member of the German team which was eliminated in the first round of the 3000 metres team race by Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70411 |title=Georg Mickler |work=Olympedia |access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref>
The following year, he finished third behind John Zander in the 1 mile event at the British 1913 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19130707/225/0014 |title=Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=7 July 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19130707/144/0006 |title=Athletic Feats |work=Sporting Life |date=7 July 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref>
Mickler was killed in action during World War I in Poland.<ref name="WWI">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107022804/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archivedate=7 November 2014 }}</ref>
== See also == * List of Olympians killed in World War I
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== External links == *[http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath06dem.html list of German athletes] *{{sports links}}
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