Karl Schochlin

The Olympic champions 1928 from left to right: Hans Schöchlin, Hans Bourquin (on shoulders) and Karl Schöchlin

Karl F. Schöchlin (born June 13, 1894 - † November 7, 1974 ) was a Swiss rower who became Olympic champion in two-man with helmsman in 1928 .

Karl Schöchlin and Wilhelm Walter took second place behind the French boat in the double sculls at the 1920 European championship . Together with his brother Hans , he won this boat class in 1922 at the European Championships in Barcelona. Then they switched to oars and took second place at the European Championships in 1923 and 1924 as members of the Swiss eight , and in 1925 they won the title in Prague. This eighth then formed a four with a helmsman , who won silver behind the Italians at the European Championships in Lucerne in 1926 in the line-up of Schöchlin, Schöchlin, Paul Kaeser, Wilhelm Wippermann and Theophil Mosimann. In 1927 in Como the boat entered with Julien Comtesse instead of Wippermann and again won silver behind the Italians.

At the Olympic Games in 1928 on a canal in Amsterdam, the Schöchlin brothers started in two with a helmsman together with the only 14-year-old Hans Bourquin . There were two boats in each case in the knock-out against each other, but it was after a defeat over the repechage progress. In the first round the Swiss defeated the French boat with a lead of two tenths of a second, in the second round the Italian boat. In the final, the Swiss met the French brothers Armand and Édouard Marcelle with their helmsman Henri Préaux , who had prevailed against the Americans in the hope run and then against the Belgians in two races. In the final, the Swiss now had significantly more reserves and clearly won by six seconds.

In 1930 at the European Championships in Liège, the Schöchlin brothers won silver together with Paul Kaeser and Hans Niklaus in the four without . In 1931 these four rowers and helmsman Antoine Mambretti won a bronze medal in the four.

Karl Schöchlin belonged to the Seeclub Biel.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

• Karl Schöchlin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in eighth
• European championships in four with a helmsman
• European championships in four without a helmsman
• European championships in double sculls