Gottfried Kottmann

Olympic athlete

1932 – 1964

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Who was Gottfried Kottmann?

Gottfried Kottmann was a Swiss bobsledder and rower who competed from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the single sculls event at Tokyo in 1964.

Kottmann won a bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh event at the 1960 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

He drowned in the Rhine River while taking part in a military exercise.

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Born
Oct 15, 1932
Zürich
Died
Nov 6, 1964
Zürich

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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