Leo Losert
Leo Losert (born October 31, 1902 in Ried im Innkreis ; † October 22, 1982 ) was an Austrian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in a double scull in 1928 .
Losert started for the rowing club Wiking Linz . Although both the club and the athletes were Austrian, he regularly competed in the German rowing championships. In the skiff , Losert took second place behind Georg Hesselmann from Hamburg in 1925 . Losert won the double scull in 1923 together with Fritz Haspel . In 1926 and 1927 he won together with Viktor Flessl , with whom he took second place in 1925 and 1928. In 1928 they lost to the Berlin duo Horst Hoeck and Gerhard Voigt . At the Olympic Games in 1928 on a canal in Amsterdam, two boats competed against each other in a knockout system. Hoeck and Voigt were eliminated in the third round and took fourth place. Losert and Flessl made it to the semi-finals and received the bronze medal behind the boats from the United States and Canada.
Leo Losert had a doctorate in law and was a part-time rowing coach for decades. In 1964 and 1968 he looked after the Austrian rowers at the Olympic Games, including his son Dieter Losert .
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
- Leo Strasser: Olympic gold. From Athens 1896 to Beijing 2008. Olympic money for Olympic ideas . Edition Va Bene, Vienna / Klosterneuburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-85167-189-6 .
Web links
- Leo Losert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- German champions in two without a helmsman
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Losert, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ried im Innkreis |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1982 |