Kurt Schmid

Kurt Schmid ( born February 11, 1932 in Baar ZG; † 2 December 2000) was a Swiss rower who won the 1952 Olympic bronze medal in the coxless pairs.

Hans and Josef cold from the lake club train had won at the 1948 Olympic Games silver medal. When Joseph Cold ended his athletic career, moved the eleven years younger than Kurt Schmid for him into the boat.

At the European Championships in Milan in 1950 were for Italy Erio Bettega and Simone Nicolo at the start and proved to be the most effective competitors for Hans Cold and Kurt Schmid. In cold target and Schmid were before the Italians and were European champions. 1951 at the European Championships in Macon won the Belgian Michel Knuysen and Robert Baetens before the Danish boat, cold and Schmid received the bronze medal.

In the Olympic Rowing Regatta 1952 in Meilahti, a district of Helsinki, five boats competed against each other. Hans Cold and Kurt Schmid won the first advance of the British, the Belgians and the Americans. Swiss and British won the two semi-finals, while the Belgians, the Americans and the French qualified for the hope runs for the final. In the final four boats from the first heat took the first four places. It won the American Charles Logg and Thomas Price before Knuysen Michel and Robert Baetens. Cold and Schmid received nine seconds behind the Belgians but over four seconds ahead of the British bronze medal.

Kurt Schmid reached eight years later once again an Olympic Final. Together with Paul Kölliker, Gottfried Kottmann and Rolf Streuli, he finished 1960 ranked sixth in the coxless four.