Walter Leiser

Walter Leiser (born May 4, 1931 ) is a former Swiss rower who won the Olympic silver medal in a four-wheeler with a helmsman in 1952 as a helmsman .

Walter Leiser started for RC Thalwil. Together with Enrico Bianchi , Karl Weidmann , Émile Ess and Heinrich Scheller , he won his preliminary run with the Swiss foursome at the 1952 Olympic rowing regatta in Meilahti, a district of Helsinki, but lost to the Czechoslovak boat in the semifinals. In the hope race , the Swiss met the Italian boat, in which, however, only one European champion from the previous year was sitting. The Swiss won with a lead of over three seconds and made it into the final. There the Czechoslovaks proved to be superior, three seconds behind them the Swiss won the battle for silver against the boat from the United States.

The following year the Czechoslovaks also won the European Championships in Copenhagen, behind the Soviet boat the Swiss won the bronze medal. In 1954 Bianchi, Weidmann, Ess and Scheller switched to the four without a helmsman . Leiser started with a new foursome around Hansrüdi Scheller at the European Championships in Amsterdam in 1954, but did not reach the finals there.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Walter Leiser in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in four with a helmsman
• swiss olympians

Individual evidence

1. ^ Successes of RC Thalwil. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 18, 2016 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.