Peter Bolliger

Peter Bolliger (born May 18, 1937 in Basel ) is a former Swiss rower . In 1968 he won the bronze medal in the four-man team at the Olympic Games .

The 1.91 m tall Peter Bolliger started for Blauweiss Basel . At the beginning of his career he mostly competed with his club mate Nicolas Gobet . At the rowing world championships in 1962 , the two, together with G. Aschmann and J. Frei, took fifth place in the four without a helmsman . In 1964 Bolliger and Gobet formed a pair without a helmsman . They occupied both the European Rowing Championships in 1964 and at the 1964 Olympic Games in seventh place. At the European Rowing Championships in 1965 , Nicolas Gobet, Peter Bolliger, Walter Weiersmüller and Adriano Bosshard won the bronze medal in the four without a helmsman behind the boats from the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Two years later, Hugo Waser , Peter Bolliger, Jakob Grob and Walter Weiersmüller finished sixth at the European Rowing Championships in 1967 . At the Olympic Games in 1968 Waser, Bolliger and Grob competed with Denis Oswald and the Zurich helmsman Gottlieb Fröhlich in a four with helmsman and won the bronze medal behind the boats from New Zealand and the GDR. In 1969 the Sansstader Hugo and Adolf Waser as well as the helmsman Martin Bächler with Peter Bolliger from Basel and the Zürcher Franz Rentsch started at the European Championships in Klagenfurt and won the bronze medal behind the two German boats from West and East.

Swiss championship title

• Double scull: 1970
• Two without a helmsman: 1963, 1964, 1965
• Four without a helmsman: 1962, 1963, 1965, 1967
• Four with a helmsman: 1961, 1962, 1967
• Eighth: 1962, 1965, 1967

Web links

• Peter Bolliger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Successes at Blauweiss Basel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European championships in foursome without a helmsman
2. ↑ The Chronicle of Blauweiss Basel reports from sixth place, the Chronicle of Seeclub Stansstad ( Memento from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Waser's Heimatverein, reports from fourth place.
3. ↑ European championships in four with a helmsman