Oscar Neuenschwander

Oscar Neuenschwander , also Oskar Neuenschwander , (born May 3, 1918 ) is a former Swiss rower who won the European championship title in the four without a helmsman in 1938 .

Oscar Neuenschwander started for the Zurich rowing club. At the Olympic Games in 1936 , he was the youngest member of the Swiss rowing team with the eighth , who won his preliminary run ahead of the German eighth. In the final, four rowers sat in the Swiss eight, who had already won two medals on the same afternoon. In a relatively close race, the Swiss didn't have the strength to take part in the battle for the medals, ten seconds behind the winning boat from the United States, the Swiss eighth finished sixth and last.

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 1937, Hermann Betschart , Oscar Neuenschwander, Werner Schweizer and Karl Schmid took second place behind the newly assembled German boat in a four without. In 1938 in Milan, the Swiss foursome won in the same line-up as in the previous year in front of the hosts from Italy.

literature

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

Web links

• Oscar Neuenschwander in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in four without a helmsman
• History of the Rowing Club Zurich, the years 1938 and 1939 ( Memento from October 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )