Name Gottfried Kottmann | Role Olympic athlete | |
Died November 6, 1964, Zurich, Switzerland Olympic medals Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's Single sculls | ||
Gottfried "Göpf" Kottmann (15 October 1932 – 6 November 1964) 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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