Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Josef•Kalt (-Arnet) |
Used name | Josef•Kalt |
Born | 20 September 1920 |
Died | 21 February 2012 |
Affiliations | See-Club Zug, Zug (SUI) |
NOC | Switzerland |
Medals | OG |
Gold | 0 |
Silver | 1 |
Bronze | 0 |
Total | 1 |
Together with his younger brother Hans, Josef Kalt won Olympic silver in coxless pairs in 1948. Coached by Karl Schmid and representing See-Club Zug, the Kalt brothers were the Swiss coxless pairs champions in 1943-45 and 1947-48, while finishing second in 1946. Josef Kalt retired from sports after the 1948 Olympics and later worked in a family owned printing company Kalt-Bucher Druck AG in Zug.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1948 Summer Olympics | Rowing | SUI | Josef Kalt | |||
Coxless Pairs, Men (Olympic) | Hans Kalt | 2 | Silver |