Karl Schmid (rower)

Karl Schmid (born June 29, 1910 - † May 14, 1998 ) was a Swiss rower who won two Olympic medals in 1936.

Karl Schmid from the Zurich Rowing Club won his first international medal at the European Championships in Budapest in 1933, when he and Ernst Rufli won the silver medal in two without a helmsman behind the Hungarian boat. In 1934 the European Championships took place in Lucerne, the Swiss four without a helmsman with Hermann Betschart , Max Schuler , Alex Homberger and Karl Schmid took second place behind the German boat. In 1935 at the European Championships in Berlin, the Swiss four-man won with Hermann Betschart, Hans Homberger , Alex Homberger and Karl Schmid. In the eighth , the Swiss boat with the complete foursome took second place behind the Hungarians.

On August 14, 1936, the finals of the rowing decisions at the 1936 Olympic Games were held on the Berlin-Grünau regatta course . At 2.30 p.m. the race started in a four-man with helmsman , the German boat won with eight seconds ahead of the Swiss boat with Hermann Betschart, Hans and Alex Homberger, Karl Schmid and helmsman Rolf Spring , which in turn was nine seconds ahead of the French had on Bronze Square. At 5 p.m. the four-man started without a helmsman, here the German European championship boat from 1934 won ahead of the British. Betschart, the Hombergers and Schmid rowed the bronze medal. At 6 p.m. the final in eighth was played, with Oskar Neuenschwander , Rudolf Homberger , Fritz Feldmann and Werner Schweizer complementing the Swiss foursome with helmsman Rolf Spring . While all the other crews started relaxed, the strongest Swiss had already completed two races, ten seconds behind the winning boat from the United States, the Swiss finished sixth and last.

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 1937, Hermann Betschart, Oskar Neuenschwander, Werner Schweizer and Karl Schmid took second place behind the newly assembled German boat. In 1938 in Milan, the Swiss four-man won with the same line-up as the previous year. After that, no European championships took place until 1947 because of the Second World War. In 1947 the Swiss hosted the first post-war European championships on the Rotsee near Lucerne. Hermann Betschart, Ernest Rufli, Gotthard Öhninger and Karl Schmid won the bronze medal in the four without a helmsman .

At this point in time, Karl Schmid was already working as a trainer, taking care of the brothers Hans and Josef Kalt .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 152, note 323.

Web links

• Karl Schmid in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in two without a helmsman
• European championships in four without a helmsman