Ernst Kyburz

Ernst Kyburz, 1928

Ernst Kyburz medal table
Wrestler
Switzerland
Olympic games
gold	1928 Amsterdam	medium
European Championship
gold	1931 Budapest	medium

Ernst Kyburz (* 14. August 1898 ; † 16th October 1983 ) was a Swiss oscillator and Ringer . He won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam .

In Amsterdam, Ernst Kyburz, who came from the canton of Bern , defeated T. Bolger, Australia , A. Praeg, South Africa , Ralph Hammonds, USA and Donald Stockton from Canada . Ernst Kyburz was also European champion in free style in the middleweight division in Budapest in 1931 . He defeated Hans Stiedl from Austria , Joseph van Opstal from Belgium , Jean Jourlin from France , Kyösti Luukko from Finland and Peter Glavanov from Hungary .

Ernst Kyburz was active for a very long time. In 1937 he was still in Bern in the Swiss national relay, which was fighting an international match against Germany . He lost in the light heavyweight division (back then up to 87 kg body weight) against Paul Böhmer .

In addition, Ernst Kyburz was also an excellent Swiss wrestler . Among other things, he was in the final course at the Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival in 1926, which ended in a draw against Ernst Hagmann - he finally had to be content with fourth place. At the second Kilchbergschwinget in 1932 he was second - but was not in the final course.

swell

• Olle Larsson, Peter Irdén: Documentation of International Wrestling Championships 1896–1976. FILA, Lausanne 1976, pp. E-23 and O-26.
• Kraftsport trade journal . 1937, no.46.

Web links

• Ernst Kyburz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ernst Kyburz on olympic.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1928 Summer Olympics. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Wrestling ( Memento from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: databaseOlympics.com