INCREDIBLE OTTO
OTTO PELTZER is one of athletics’ forgotten heroes. In the 1920s the German runner was a rival of Paavo Nurmi and competed in two Olympics but fell from grace under the Nazis and later achieved redemption coaching street children in India.
The story – entitled His Own Man – the biography of Otto Peltzer, Champion Athlete, Nazi Victim, Indian Hero – is co-written by Tim Johnston and Donald Macgregor.
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