Rudolf Bosshard
Rudolf Bosshard (* 1890; † 20th century) was a Swiss rower who won seven European championship titles.
At the first European rowing championships after the First World War, which were held in Mâcon in 1920 , a team from the Grasshopper Club Zurich with Bosshard as bowman won the Swiss eighth place . Eight of the nine rowers of the European championship boat competed in the Olympic Games in Antwerp that same year . There, the Swiss eighth was defeated in the second heat by the British, who then won the silver medal in the Olympic final.
In 1922 and 1923 Rudolf Bosshard won the European championship in the single . In 1923 he and Heini Thoma also won the title in double sculls , which the two were able to defend in 1924 . At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 , the US boat won the double scull in front of the French Jean-Pierre Stock and Marc Detton , Bosshard and Thoma took third place behind.
In 1925 Bosshard started at the European Championships in Prague together with Max Schmid . Bosshard and Schmid took second place behind the French Stock and Detton. In 1926 and 1927 Bosshard won two more European championship titles in double sculls together with Maurice Rieder . At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, Bosshard and Rieder lost in the first run to the later Olympic champions Paul Costello and Charles McIlvaine . The two Swiss reached the third round via the repechage and second round, in which they again lost to the two US-Americans.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
Web links
- Rudolf Bosshard in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European championships in one
- European championships in double sculls
- European championships in eighth
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bosshard, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss rowers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |