Hans Bourquin

Hans Bourquin (* October 16, 1914, † 1998 in Sion ) was a Swiss rower, the 1928 Olympic champion in pairs with coxswain at the helm.

Hans Bourquin controlled at the Olympic Games in 1928 on a canal in Amsterdam, the two with Hans and Karl Schöchlin. There were two boats in the KO system against each other, but you could get stuck after a defeat on the repechage. In the first round, the Swiss defeated the French boat with a margin of two tenths of a second in the second round of the Italian boot. In the finals, the Swiss met again on the French brothers Armand and Édouard Marcelle with her helmsman Henri Préaux that had prevailed in the repechage against the Americans and then in two races against the Belgians. In the final, the Swiss had now significantly more reserves and won clearly with six seconds ahead. At the time of the Olympic champion Bourquin was 13 years and 292 days old and thus the youngest ever winner of a gold medal.

Hans Bourquin belonged to the Seeclub Biel.