Gustav Fischer (rider)

Gustav Fischer (born November 8, 1915 in Meisterschwanden ; † November 22, 1990 ) was a Swiss dressage rider who won three silver and two bronze medals in five Olympic starts from 1952 to 1968. After the athlete Paul Martin in the 1920s and 1930s, Fischer and his teammate Henri Chammartin were the second and third Swiss to take part in five Olympic Games.

Career

At the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Fischer rode Soliman . The two took eighth place in the individual competition; together with Henri Chammartin and Gottfried Trachsel , he won the silver medal behind the Swedish team and ahead of the team from the Federal Republic of Germany. Four years later at the Olympic Equestrian Games in Stockholm , Fischer on Vasello came tenth in the individual ranking, together with Chammartin and Trachsel he won bronze behind the Swedish hosts and the German team.

No team competition was held at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Fischer competed on forest and received the silver medal behind Sergei Filatow from the Soviet Union and before Josef Neckermann from the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1964 in Tokyo , Chammartin won the individual standings one point ahead of the German Harry Boldt ; 17 points behind, the battle for the bronze medal was just as close, Sergei Filatow was one point ahead of Gustav Fischer, who on Wald was 56 points ahead of fifth-placed Neckermann. In the team competition, the three German riders won ahead of the Swiss team with Chammartin, Fischer and the young Marianne Gossweiler .

In 1965 the first official European championship took place in Copenhagen. As in Tokyo, the German team won ahead of the Swiss, both teams competed in the same line-up as in the 1964 Olympic Games. There was also a duel between Swiss and Germans at the first World Cup in Bern in 1966. After Neckermann, Boldt and Reiner Klimke had won all three medals in the individual ranking, they also won the team ranking ahead of Chammartin, Fischer and Gossweiler. Fischer was absent from the Swiss team, which won the bronze medal at the 1967 European Championships with Chammartin, Gossweiler and Hansrüdi Thomi . But at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Chammartin, Gossweiler and Fischer formed the Swiss team again. Behind the German and Soviet teams, the Swiss won the bronze medal; In the individual ranking, Fischer and Wald came in seventh again.

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970

Web links

• Gustav Fischer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Championship Equipe ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ World Championships