Kurt Ott

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Kurt Ott (born December 9, 1912 in Zurich ; † April 19, 2001 in Schlieren ) was a Swiss cyclist who won an Olympic silver medal in 1936.

Ott had won the Tour du Lac Léman in 1935 . At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , the road race over 100 kilometers was held on the AVUS -Nordschleife. On the flat course, the field stayed together until the finish and crossed the finish line within a few seconds. The Frenchman Robert Charpentier won ahead of his compatriot Guy Lapébie and the Swiss Ernst Nievergelt ; Ott took fourteenth place. The team ranking was determined according to the added times of the three best drivers in a country, here the French won ahead of the Swiss with Ernst Nievergelt, Edgar Buchwalder and Kurt Ott. In 1937 Ott took second place in the amateur ranking at the championship in Zurich .

Kurt Ott was active as a professional in 1938 and 1939. In 1938 he won the Swiss championship in cross-country skiing and was twelfth at Milan-Sanremo and eighth at the championship in Zurich. In 1939 he finished third in the Swiss Cyclo-cross Championship.

literature

  • Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Hervé Dauchy: Mondial Encyclopedie Cyclisme. Volume 2 GP published in 2000 by the UCI ISBN 90-74128-73-4

Web links

  • Kurt Ott in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
  • Kurt Ott in the Radsportseiten.net database
personal data
SURNAME Ott, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2001
Place of death Streaks