Fritz Schwab
Appearance
Olympic medal record | ||
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Men's athletics | ||
Representing Switzerland | ||
1952 Helsinki | 10 kilometre walk | |
1948 London | 10 kilometre walk |
Erich Arthur Fritz Schwab (December 31, 1919 in Berlin – November 24, 2006) was a Swiss race walker. He won two Olympic medals over 10 kilometres in 1948 and 1952. In addition he won two medals at the European Championships in 1946 and 1950.
His father Arthur Tell Schwab was an Olympic silver medalist in 1936.
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- 1919 births
- 2006 deaths
- Swiss male racewalkers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Switzerland
- Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 20th-century Swiss sportsmen
- Swiss athletics biography stubs
- Swiss Olympic medalist stubs