Rolf Spring

Rolf Spring ( born March 19, 1917) is a former Swiss rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 1936.

Rolf Spring from the Rowing Club Zurich was the helmsman in the Swiss rowing team at the 1936 Olympics, he drove all three boat classes in the final. On August 14, 1936, the finals of the rudder decisions were held at the Olympic Games 1936 on the regatta course Berlin- Grunau. At 14.30 clock was the start of the race in the four with coxswain, it won the German boat lead with eight seconds to the Swiss boat with Hermann Betschart, Hans Homberger, Alex Homberger, Karl Schmid, and Rolf Spring, for its part, nine seconds ahead of the French had on the bronze medal. At 16:00 clock the finals began in twos with coxswain, Georges Gschwind and Hans Appenzeller rowed with Spring to fifth place. In the started at 17.00 clock final of the coxless four occupied, composed of the rowers in the four with coxswain, third. At 18.00 clock, the final was played in the aft finally, the Swiss four with coxswain supplemented thereby Oskar Neuenschwander, Rudolf Homberger, Fritz Feldmann and Werner Schweizer. While all the other crews rested went to the start, the strongest Swiss had already completed two races, ten seconds behind the winning boat from the United States occupied the Swiss sixth and last place.