Walter Kusch

Walter Kusch (born May 31, 1954 in Hildesheim ) is a German swimmer .

Life

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he won the bronze medal with the German 4 × 100 m individual relay relay . Kusch celebrated his greatest triumph in 1978 when he became world champion in the 100 m chest . In addition, he won several medals at world championships and European championships on the breast sticks and with the layer relay and set a total of 34 German records in his career. Since 2009 he has also won medals at national and international championships and has set various new European and world records in the 55 age group.

Today he works as a dentist in Hildesheim.

successes

Olympic games

1976

• 1 × bronze: 4 × 100 m layers

World championships

1975

• 1 × silver: 4 × 100 m layers

1978

• 1 × gold: 100 m chest
• 1 × silver: 4 × 100 m layers
• 1 × bronze: 200 m chest

2010

• 1 × gold: 50 m chest AK 55
• 1 × gold: 100 m chest AK 55

European championships

1970

• 1 × bronze: 200 m chest

1974

• 1 × gold: 4 × 100 m medley
• 1 × silver: 100 m chest

1977

• 2 × bronze: 100 m chest; 200 m chest

2009

• 1 × gold: 50 m chest AK55
• 1 × gold: 100 m chest AK55

Records

2009

• 50 m chest: world record AK55 short course
• 50 m chest: world record AK55 long track
• 100 m chest: world record AK55 short course
• 100 m chest: European record AK55 long track

Awards

In 1976, Kusch was awarded the silver bay leaf .

In 1988 the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History set up the Gallery of Honor for Sports in Lower Saxony and included Kusch in the Gallery of Honor for his services to sports in Lower Saxony . Today it is in the Honor Board category of the Honor Portal that emerged from the Honor Gallery.

Web links

• Walter Kusch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from May 26, 1993, p. 55