Werner Schweizer (rower)
Werner Schweizer (born February 15, 1916 in Zurich ; † after 1942) is a former Swiss rower who won the European championship title in the four without a helmsman in 1938 .
Werner Schweizer started for the Zurich rowing club. At the Olympic Games in 1936 he competed with the Swiss eighth , which won his preliminary run ahead of the German eighth. In the final, four rowers sat in the Swiss eight, who had already won two medals on the same afternoon. In a relatively close race, the Swiss didn't have the strength to take part in the battle for the medals, ten seconds behind the winning boat from the United States, the Swiss eighth finished sixth and last.
At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 1937, Hermann Betschart , Oskar Neuenschwander , Werner Schweizer and Karl Schmid took second place behind the newly assembled German boat in a four without. In 1938 in Milan, the Swiss foursome won in the same line-up as in the previous year in front of the hosts from Italy.
Schweizer studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich , where he graduated as a chemical engineer in the spring of 1939. In 1942 he received his doctorate in technical sciences under Ernst Rüst at the Photographic Institute of the ETH.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
Web links
- Werner Schweizer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- European championships in four without a helmsman
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swiss, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss rowers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1942 |