Oscar Schwab

Oscar Schwab

Oscar Schwab (ca.1908)
To person
Full name	Oscar Joseph Schwab
Date of birth	June 24, 1882
date of death	August 21, 1955
nation	Switzerland United States
discipline	Track cycling
Most important successes
Swiss track cycling championships 1907: - Sprint
Last updated: February 2, 2017

Oscar Schwab (born June 24, 1882 in Paris , † August 21, 1955 in St. Louis ) was a Swiss - American track cyclist .

Oscar Schwab was born in Paris and grew up in Switzerland because his mother was Swiss. He was later adopted by his stepfather, an American, and became a U.S. citizen in 1900. He spoke several languages ​​fluently. After finishing school, he moved to the USA in 1897 and trained in an iron construction workshop; In the afternoons he met his friends to go cycling. From 1903 he competed in smaller amateur races. In 1904 he started at the Olympic Games in St. Louis in the sprint over a quarter mile, but was eliminated in the first round.

In the following year, Schwab turned professional , moved to Paris and from there competed in cycling competitions all over Europe, sprint races and standing races . In 1905 and 1906 he competed in the sprint world championships, in 1906 and in 1907 at the Grand Prix de Paris . In 1907 he became Swiss sprint champion. In 1920 he drove together with the Bohemian Emanuel Kudela a tandem race on the Berlin Olympic track , in which Kudela fell fatally. In the same year he took second place behind Walter Rütt in the Koenigsberg Blue Ribbon .

Oscar Schwab married in Berlin in 1912 and moved back to the USA in 1926.

Web links

• Oscar Schwab in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Oscar Schwab in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Oscar Schwab on cycling4fans.de