Rolf Spring

Rolf Spring (born March 19, 1917 ) is a former Swiss rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 1936.

Rolf Spring from the Zurich rowing club was the helmsman in the Swiss rowing team at the 1936 Olympic Games , he steered all three boat classes into the finals. On August 14, 1936, the finals of the rowing decisions at the 1936 Olympic Games were held on the Berlin-Grünau regatta course . At 2.30 p.m. the race started in a four-man with a helmsman ; the German boat won eight seconds ahead of the Swiss boat with Hermann Betschart , Hans Homberger , Alex Homberger , Karl Schmid and Rolf Spring, which in turn won nine seconds ahead of the French had on Bronze Square. At 4 p.m. the finals began in two with the helmsman , Georges Gschwind and Hans Appenzeller rowed with Spring to fifth place. In the final, which started at 5 p.m., the four-man without a helmsman , made up of the rowers in the four-man with a helmsman, took third place. At 6 p.m. the final in eighth was played, with Oskar Neuenschwander , Rudolf Homberger , Fritz Feldmann and Werner Schweizer complementing the Swiss four with helmsman . While all the other crews started relaxed, the strongest Swiss had already completed two races, ten seconds behind the winning boat from the United States, the Swiss finished sixth and last.

literature

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

Web links

• Rolf Spring in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )