Werner Walter (cyclist)

Werner Walter

To person
Date of birth	April 21, 1910
date of death	July 26, 1938
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Track cycling
Most important successes
Swiss track championships 1931: - Sprint (amateurs)

Werner Walter (born April 21, 1910 in Trasadingen ; † July 26, 1938 in Zurich ) was a Swiss track cyclist .

Werner Walter grew up in Cologne after his parents moved there from Switzerland. He married there in 1935. During his time as an active cyclist, he often traveled to Zurich to train and race there.

In 1931 Walter became Swiss champion in the amateur sprint , and vice-champion the following year. At the Sprint Grand Prix in Copenhagen in the same year he finished second behind Olympic champion Jacobus van Egmond from the Netherlands . Later he went over to the professionals and drove standing races .

On July 26, 1938, Werner Walter was training with his pacemaker Alois Rüttimann on the Zurich-Oerlikon cycling track when a tire burst on his bike. He fell on the concrete track and suffered a serious head injury, from which he died an hour later in the hospital. He was buried in Winterthur with great public participation.

After Ernst Feja (1927) and Emil Richli (1934), Werner Walter was the third athlete to fall fatally on the Zurich railway.

literature

• Peter Schnyder (Ed.): Oerlikon Racecourse. 100 years of fascination with cycling. AS-Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-909111-95-4 , p. 154.

Web links

• Werner Walter in the Radsportseiten.net database