Rico Bianchi

Enrico " Rico " Bianchi ( born May 13, 1930 in Chur ) is a former Swiss rowers, who in 1952 won the Olympic silver medal in the coxed four.

At the European Championships in 1951 in Macon, the Italian coxed four won in front of a newly formed Swiss boat with Enrico Bianchi, Karl Weidmann, Émile dining, Heinrich Scheller and helmsman Walter Ludin.

A year later, with Walter Quieter than coxswain, won the Swiss Four at the Olympic Rowing Regatta 1952 in Meilahti, a district of Helsinki, his heat, but lost in the semifinals of the Czechoslovak boat. In the repechage, the Swiss met the Italian boot, but in which sat only a European champion last year. The Swiss won by just over three seconds ahead and moved into the finals. There, the Czechoslovaks to demonstrate superiority or three seconds behind them, the Swiss won the battle for silver against the boat from the United States.

The following year, the Czechoslovaks also won at the European Championships in Copenhagen, after the Soviet boat won the Swiss the bronze medal. 1954 Walter Leiser was no longer there; Bianchi, Weidmann, dining and Scheller joined the European Championship in Amsterdam as a coxless four and won a bronze medal behind the Italians and the British boat.

At the Olympic Games in 1960 Enrico Bianchi came on as a member of the Swiss rowing eight, but dropped out after pre-and repechage from.

Enrico Bianchi started for the RC Thalwil.