Gottfried Kottmann

Gottfried Kottmann
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing   Switzerland
Olympic Games
1964 Tokyo Single sculls
Men's bobsleigh
World Championship
1960 Cortina d'Ampezzo Four-man

Gottfried Kottmann (October 15, 1932 – November 6, 1964) was a Swiss bobsledder and rower who competed from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the single sculls event at Tokyo in 1964.

Kottmann won a bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh event at the 1960 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

He drowned in the Rhine River while taking part in a military exercise.

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