Beat Schwerzmann

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Beat Schwerzmann (born April 28, 1966 ) is a former Swiss rower .

Schwerzmann rowed for the Rowing Club Bern and won 14 Swiss championship titles in the various scull classes during his career .

In 1986 and 1987 he was tenth in the quadruple sculls at the World Rowing Championships . At the Olympic Games in 1988 he competed with Ueli Bodenmann in a double scull ; behind the Dutch riders Ronald Florijn and Nico Rienks , the two Swiss won the silver medal with 28 hundredths of a second ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union. After a fifth place at the World Rowing Championships in 1989, the two switched to double fours in 1990 and together with Marc-Sven Nater and Alexander Ruckstuhl, they won the silver medal behind the Soviet foursome. In 1991, the four Swiss missed the A final at the World Championships and only finished eighth overall. At the 1992 Olympic Games , the four rowed into the A-final and fell short of the bronze medal by six hundredths of a second as fourth.

Beat Schwerzmann has been with the German rower Ingeburg Schwerzmann , born in 1991 . Althoff married.

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SURNAME Schwerzmann, Beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss rowers
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1966