Robert Bretscher

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Robert Bretscher (born August 6, 1953 in Winterthur ) is a former Swiss gymnast .

biography

Robert Bretscher was born on August 6, 1953 in Winterthur. At the age of six he joined the youth team at TV Wülflingen and completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter after school .

In 1969 he was appointed to the national team and two years later he was Swiss youth champion. In 1972 he was able to defend the junior championship and won the bronze medal in horse jumping at the elite Swiss championships. In the same year he made his international debut in a three-way battle between Switzerland, West Germany and Romania. He was also part of the Swiss delegation to the Olympic Games in Munich , which came eleventh in the team competition. His personal best individual result in Munich was 14th place in the horse jump.

In 1973 he won the first two of his 23 gold medals in individual disciplines at Swiss championships. At the European Gymnastics Championships he was eleventh in the all-around competition.

In 1975, 1976 and 1977 he was also Swiss champion in the supreme all-around discipline. At the European Gymnastics Championships in 1975 he was thirteenth in the all-around competition and reached the horse jumping device final, which he finished in sixth. A year later he was able to take part in the Olympic Games in Montreal , where he achieved the best result of all Western European participants in the all-around with 14th place. At the European Gymnastics Championships in 1977 , he was able to achieve not only 12th place in the all-around competition, but also two device finals, which he finished in fourth place on the rings and sixth place on the horizontal bar.

A month before the 1978 World Gymnastics Championships , he announced his resignation after the competition had been held. He ended his international career in the all-around finals with a "freestyle of his life", in which he was only beaten by world champion Nikolai Andrianow in terms of points in the final. He finished the all-around final as the best Swiss in 19th place.

In the summer of 2018, Bretscher retired after almost forty years as a train driver at SBB .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Bretscher types for the WB . In: Walliser Bote . 138th year, no. 120 , May 25, 1977, pp. 11 ( e-newspaperarchives.ch [accessed December 17, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b Günthard's new trump ace . In: Die Tat (Swiss newspaper) . 38th year, no. 100 , May 1, 1973, pp. 9 ( e-newspaperarchives.ch [accessed December 17, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Five medals each for Peter Rohner and Robert Bretscher . In: Die Tat (Swiss newspaper) . 38th year, no. 264 , November 13, 1973, pp. 11 ( e-newspaperarchives.ch [accessed December 17, 2019]).
  4. ↑ «I am stepping back to Strasbourg» . In: Die Tat (Swiss newspaper) . 43rd volume, no. 218 , September 20, 1978, p. 36 ( e-newspaperarchives.ch [accessed December 17, 2019]).
  5. ^ Nikolai Andrianow think about it . In: Walliser Bote . 139th year, no. 253 , October 28, 1978, p. 16 ( e-newspaperarchives.ch [accessed December 17, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Anna Berger: "Even today people still want an autograph" . In: The Landbote . 182nd year, no. 178 , August 4, 2018, p. 5 ( landbote.ch [accessed December 17, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Bretscher, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur