Stefan Netzle

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Stefan Netzle , also Stephan Netzle , (born December 31, 1957 ) is a former Swiss rower who was world champion in the four-man without a helmsman in 1982 .

At the Junior World Championships in 1975, Netzle and Thomas Moser took eighth place in the two-man team without a helmsman . Netzle achieved his first success in the adult class at the 1979 World Championships in Bled , when he and Hans-Konrad Trümpler received the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR and the USSR.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the Swiss four-man without a helmsman in the line-up of Bruno Saile , Jürg Weitnauer , Hans-Konrad Trümpler and Stefan Netzle competed, for which the rowers in their home country were severely attacked. The four Swiss reached the A-final and finished sixth out of twelve participating boats. In the same line-up, the Swiss rowed the silver medal behind the Soviet boat at the 1981 World Championships in Munich . The following year the World Championships were held in Lucerne, Saile, Weitnauer, Trümpler and Netzle won the only gold medal for the hosts ahead of the Soviet four. At the Olympic Games in 1984 , the four Swiss reached the A-final again and finished fifth. At the end of his career, Stefan Netzle rowed together with Marc-Sven Nater to ninth place in the two-man without helmsman at the 1985 World Championships .

The 1.86 m tall rower from Schaffhausen RC has a doctorate in law and has specialized in sports matters with his law firm. From 1991 to 2010 Netzle was a judge at the International Sports Court . Netzle is also Vice President of Swiss Olympic .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ From traitor to top lawyer ( Memento from November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  2. ↑ Members of the Executive Board of Swiss Olympic (accessed on November 23, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Netzle, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Netzle, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss rowers
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1957