Ernst Nievergelt (23 March 1910 – 1 July 1999) was a

cyclist Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

from

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. He was born in Affoltern,

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, Switzerland, and died in

Kappel am Albis Kappel am Albis is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Affoltern (district), Affoltern in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zurich (canton), Zürich in Switzerland. Its name of Kappel () is specified by "on the Al ...

. In 1935 Nievergelt won the amateur standings in the Championship of Zurich. He competed for Switzerland in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

held in

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, Germany in the individual road race event where he finished in third place. He also teamed up with fellow countrymen

Edgar Buchwalder Edgar Buchwalder (2 August 1916 – 9 April 2009) was a cyclist from Switzerland. He won the silver medal in the team road race at the 1936 Summer Olympics along with Ernst Nievergelt and Kurt Ott Kurt Ott (9 December 1912 – 19 A ...

and

Kurt Ott Kurt Ott (9 December 1912 – 19 April 2001) was a cyclist from Switzerland. He won the silver medal in the team road race at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officia ...

to win the silver medal in the team road race, which ran over 100 kilometers on the AVUS-Nordschleife. From 1937 to 1939 he competed in professional racing. In 1937 he took second place at Berlin. His only win as a professional was in 1938, when he won the ninth stage of the International Tour of Germany. At the Tour de Suisse, he finished on the sixth stage in second place in the standings and 19th place overall.

References

Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Hervé Dauchy: Mondial Encyclopedie Cyclisme. Volume 2 GP published in 2000 by the UCI, * * Ernst Nievergelt in the database of Radsportseiten.net 1910 births 1999 deaths Swiss male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Switzerland Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling People from Affoltern District Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Cyclists from the canton of Zürich 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub