Alfred Probst

Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Alfred Probst (* 1894 ; † April 1958 in Basel ) was a Swiss rower who won two Olympic medals.

At the European Championships in Como in 1923, Émile Albrecht , Richard Frey , Alfred Probst, Eugen Sigg and Hans Steiger won in a four with helmsman .

At the 1924 Olympic Games on the Seine near Argenteuil, Émile Albrecht, Alfred Probst, Eugen Sigg and Hans Walter won the bronze medal in the four without a helmsman . In a four with a helmsman, Fritz Loosli steered the four rowers into the final, where Émile Lachapelle sat in the boat for Loosli, who won the gold medal.

At the European Championships in Prague in 1925, the Swiss four-man without a helmsman won with Kurt Pfeiffer, Alfred Probst, Hermann Haller and Arthur Dreyfus and won the first ever European title in this boat class.

Probst started for the Rowing Club Lausanne .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

• Alfred Probst in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European championships in a foursome with
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. p. 585, note 226.
3. ↑ European championships in foursome without