Swiss writer Fred Jent was the sports editor of the “National-Zeitung” in Basel, and in 1933 helped found the Swiss Life-Saving Society. He was one of the pioneers of sports sweepstake in Switzerland. Jent also wrote articles about the swimming competitions in the series of Olympic books by Julius Wagner. In his youth he was an avid football player and track & field athlete. Jent was a long-time president of the Swiss Swimming Federation. He also acted as a football referee, boxing judge and from 1944 served on the central board of the National Association of Physical Exercise. In 1936 he published the book Der Weg zur sportlichen Höchstleistung. Die neue Lehre vom Training (The way to top sporting performance. The new model of training.) in which the submitted article may be contained.
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