Sports reporter legend Sepp Renggli dead
Sports reporter legend Sepp Renggli died of old age on Friday morning at the age of 90.
The Kriens native was, among other things, head of sports at Radio DRS and head of the DRS radio studio, as SRF writes. Renggli experienced 16 Olympic Games and 45 editions of the Tour de Suisse as a reporter. He was the author of more than 30 sports books and invented the successful radio programs "Sport und Musik" and "Grand Prix Brunnenhof".
Renggli had started his media career at the newspaper Sport, where he quickly rose from secretary to assistant editor. According to Sportinformation, however, his first article appeared in the Luzerner Tagblatt on May 11, 1946: During a language study trip to the south coast of England, Renggli wrote an unsolicited match report on the England-Switzerland international soccer match and sent it to the newspaper - pointing out that his father was a loyal subscriber.
In April 2014, the father of two sons who also worked in sports journalism celebrated his 90th birthday. After a short stay in hospital, he died of old age on Friday - and with him one of the greatest sports journalists in Swiss media history. (hae)
