Enrico Bianchi

Enrico "Rico" Bianchi (born May 13, 1930 in Chur ) is a former Swiss rower who won the 1952 Olympic silver medal in a four-man team.

At the European Championship in Mâcon in 1951, the Italian four-man with helmsman won in front of a newly assembled Swiss boat with Enrico Bianchi, Karl Weidmann , Émile Ess , Heinrich Scheller and helmsman Walter Ludin .

A year later, with Walter Leiser as helmsman, the Swiss four-man won his preliminary run at the 1952 Olympic rowing regatta in Meilahti, a district of Helsinki, but lost to the Czechoslovak boat in the semifinals. In the hope race , the Swiss met the Italian boat, in which, however, only one European champion from the previous year was sitting. The Swiss won with a lead of over three seconds and made it into the final. There the Czechoslovaks proved to be superior, three seconds behind them the Swiss won the battle for silver against the boat from the United States.

The following year the Czechoslovaks also won the European Championships in Copenhagen, behind the Soviet boat the Swiss won the bronze medal. In 1954 Walter Leiser was no longer there; Bianchi, Weidmann, Ess and Scheller appeared as four without a helmsman at the European Championships in Amsterdam and won another bronze medal behind the Italians and the British boat.

At the Olympic Games in 1960 , Enrico Bianchi joined the Swiss eight, but retired after the pre-run and the hope run.

Enrico Bianchi started for RC Thalwil.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Rico Bianchi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in four with a helmsman
• European championships in four without a helmsman