Émile Knecht
Émile Knecht or Emil Adolf Knecht (born December 18, 1923 in Zurich ; † May 4, 2019 ) was a Swiss rower who was second in the 1948 Olympic team with helmsman .
Athletic career
The first European rowing championships after the Second World War were held in Lucerne in 1947 . In the eighth , the Italians won ahead of the Danes and the Swiss. Rudolf Reichling , Erich Schriever , Émile Knecht and Peter Stebler switched from the eighth in 1947 to the four with helmsman. With helmsman André Moccand , the Swiss won the 1948 Olympic Games in the preliminary, intermediate and semi-finals. In the final, the US rowers won ahead of the Swiss and Danes.
At the European Championships in 1951 , Stebler and Knecht competed in double sculls and won the title. The following year they were eliminated from the first round of hope runs at the Olympic Games .
Knecht started for the Seeclub Zurich .
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
Web links
- Émile Knecht in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The German spelling can be found in the database Sports-Reference.com and at Volker Kluge: Die Chronik II p. 105, the French spelling can be found on sport-komplett.de.
- ^ Emil Knecht-Keller: Obituary notice. In: tagesanzeiger.sich-erinnern.ch. Tages-Anzeiger , May 15, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
- ↑ European Championships in the eighth
- ↑ European championships in double sculls
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Servant, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Servant, Emil Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss rowers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th May 2019 |