Olympic Summer Games 1936 / Participant (Switzerland)

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The Switzerland participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin in part with a delegation of 174 athletes.

Participants by sport

basketball

• Men's team

  9th place (3rd round)

• Squad

  Fernand Bergmann

  Pierre Carlier

  René Karlen

  Georges Laederach

  Raymond Lambercy

  Jean Pare

  Jean Pollet

  Marcel Wuilleumier

Boxing

• Walter van Bueren

  Light Heavyweight: 1st round

• Alfred Flury

  Middleweight: 1st round

• Walter Grieb

  Welterweight: 2nd round

• Karl Kummer

  Bantamweight: 2nd round

• Walter Marti

  Heavyweight: 2nd round

• Robert Seidel

  Lightweight: 2nd round

• Walter Siegfried

  Flyweight: 2nd round

• Karl Zurflüh

  Featherweight: 1st round

fencing

• Constantin Antoniades

  Foil, team: 2nd round

• Yvonne Bornand

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

• François Duret

  Epee, singles: 2nd round

• Michel Fauconnet

  Foil, singles: 2nd round

  Foil, team: 2nd round

• Édouard fitting

  Foil, team: 2nd round

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Frédéric Fitting

  Epee, singles: 3rd round

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Charles Glasstetter

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Edmond Goldlin

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Paul de Graffenried

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Charles Hauert

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Jean Hauert

  Epee, singles: semi-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Denise Kramer-Scholer

  Women, foil, singles: 2nd round

• Gottfried von Meiss

  Foil, singles: 2nd round

  Foil, team: 2nd round

• Jean Rubli

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: 2nd round

• Alphonse back chair

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Ingeborg Scheel

  Women, foil, singles: 2nd round

• Adolf Stocker

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Walter Widemann

  Saber, team: preliminary round

Weightlifting

• Albert Aeschmann

  Middleweight: 13th place

• Henri Blanc

  Lightweight: 14th place

• Pierre Cottier

  Lightweight: 13th place

• Ernst Fischer

  Heavyweight: 13th place

• Alois Rigert

  Featherweight: 14th place

Handball

• Men's team

  bronze

• Squad

  Max Bloesch

  Rolf Fäs

  Burkhard Gantenbein

  Willy Gysi

  Erland Herkenpath

  Ernst Hufschmid

  Willy Hufschmid

  Werner Meyer

  Georg Mischon

  Willy Schäfer

  Werner Scheurmann

  Edy Schmid

  Erich Schmitt

  Eugen Seiterle

  Max Streib

  Robert Studer

  Rudolf Wirz

hockey

• Men's team

  5th place (preliminary round)

• Squad

  Roland Annen

  René Courvoisier

  Adolf Fehr

  Konrad Fehr

  Louis Gilliéron

  Jean Gruner

  Fridolin Kurmann

  Charles Légeret

  Giancarlo Luzzani

  Walther Meier

  Walter Scherrer

  Roger Toffel

  Ernst Tüscher

canoe

• Othmar Bach & Werner Zimmermann

  Two-person kayak, 10,000 meters: 6th place

• Emil Bottlang & Eugen Knoblauch

  Two-person kayak (folding boat), 10,000 meters: 6th place

• Werner Klingelfuss & Rudolf Vilim

  Two-person kayak, 1000 meters: 5th place

• Bruno Lips

  Single kayak, 10,000 meters: 7th place

• Hans Mooser

  Single kayak (folding boat), 10,000 meters: 6th place

• Hans Potthof

  Single kayak, 1000 meters: prelims

athletics

• Adolf Aebersold

  50 kilometers of walking: 15th place

• Max Beer

  Marathon: 34th place

• Willy Buehrer

  Decathlon: DNF

• Fritz Dällenbach

  Decathlon: 13th place

• Rudolf Eggenberg

  High jump: 12th place

• Franz Eha

  Marathon: 39th place

• Armin Guhl

  Decathlon: 6th place

• Paul Hänni

  100 meters: semi-finals

  200 meters: 4th place

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Albert Jud

  400 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• René Kunz

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

• Bernard Marchand

  100 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Paul Martin

  800 meters: heats

  1500 meters: heats

• Georges Meyer

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Josef Neumann

  Javelin: 22nd place (qualification)

• Karl Reiniger

  50 kilometers of walking: 7th place

• Arthur Tell Schwab

  50 kilometers of walking: silver

• Fritz Seeger

  100 meters: heats

• Jean Studer

  Long jump: eliminated in qualification

• Gottfried Utiger

  5000 meters: heats

Modern pentathlon

• Hans Baumann

  Single: DNF

• Willy Grundbacher

  Singles: 32nd place

• Karl Wyss

  Singles: 11th place

Cycling

• Edy Baumann

  Individual time trial, 1000 meters: 8th place

• Edgar Buchwalder

  Road race, individual: 11th place

  Road race, team: silver

• Karl Burkhart & Fritz Ganz

  Tandem, sprint, 2000 meters: 9th place

• Ernst Fuhrimann , Albert Kägi , Walter Richli , Werner Wägelin

  Team pursuit: 6th place

• Ernst Nievergelt

  Road race, individual: bronze

  Road race, team: silver

• Kurt Ott

  Road race, individual: 14th place

  Road race, team: silver

• Werner Wägelin

  Sprint: 5th place

• Gottlieb Weber

  Road race, individual: 16th place

  Road race, team: silver

horse riding

• Jörg Fehr

  Jumping, singles: 30th place

  Jumping, team: 5th place

• Hans Iklé

  Jumping, singles: 31st place

  Jumping, team: 5th place

• Pierre Mange

  Eventing, Singles: disqualified

  Versatility, team: DNF

• Arnold Mettler

  Jumping, singles: 11th place

  Jumping, team: 5th place

• Hans Moser

  Dressage, individual: 22nd place

  Versatility, singles: 22nd place

  Versatility, team: DNF

• Mario Mylius

  Versatility, singles: 8th place

  Versatility, team: DNF

Wrestling

• Willy scared

  Welterweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Georg Argast

  Greco-Roman light heavyweight division: 2nd round

• Gottfried Arn

  Lightweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Werner Bürki

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Franz Christians

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Paul Datwyler

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Cesar Gaudard

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Ernest Gogel

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Oskar Holinger

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Serious cancer

  Middleweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Ernst Lehmann

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Adolf Rieder

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Werner Spycher

  Featherweight, freestyle: 2nd round

rowing

• Ernst Rufli

  One: 5th place

• Kurt Haas & Eugen Studach

  Double scull: semifinals

• Wilhelm Klopfer & Karl Müller

  Two without a helmsman: 5th place

• Hans Appenzeller , Georges Gschwind & Rolf Spring

  Two with a helmsman: 5th place

• Hermann Betschart , Alex Homberger , Hans Homberger & Karl Schmid

  Four without a helmsman: bronze

• Hermann Betschart , Alex Homberger , Hans Homberger , Karl Schmid & Rolf Spring

  Four with helmsman: silver

• Hermann Betschart , Fritz Feldmann (rower) , Alex Homberger , Hans Homberger , Rudolf Homberger , Oskar Neuenschwander , Karl Schmid , Werner Schweizer & Rolf Spring

  Eighth with helmsman: 6th place

swim

• Hans Brenner

  Men, 400 meters freestyle: prelims

• Werner Lehmann

  Men, 400 meters freestyle: prelims

• Tenny Wyss

  Women, 200 meters chest: prelims

• Roger Zirilli

  Men, 100 meters freestyle: prelims

sailing

• Willy Pieper

  O-Jolle (O / G 316 "Cologne"): 8th place

• André Firmenich , Frédéric Firmenich , Georges Firmenich , Alexandre Gelbert & Louis Noverraz

  6-meter class: disqualified

do gymnastics

• Walter Bach

  Individual all-around: 11th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Floor: 20th place

  Horse jump: 4th place

  Bars: 6th place

  Horizontal bar: 23rd place

  Rings: 55th place

  Pommel horse: 5th place

• Albert Bachmann

  Individual all-around: 13th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Floor: 18th place

  Horse jump: 15th place

  Bars: 13th place

  Horizontal bar: 42nd place

  Rings: 29th place

  Pommel horse: bronze

• Walter Beck

  Individual all-around: 22nd place

  Team all-around: silver

  Floor: 13th place

  Horse jump: 5th place

  Bars: 23rd place

  Horizontal bar: 28th place

  Rings: 62nd place

  Pommel horse: 48th place

• Eugene Mack

  Individual all-around: silver

  Team all-around: silver

  Bottom: bronze

  Horse jump: silver

  Bars: 5th place

  Horizontal bar: 9th place

  Rings: 13th place

  Pommel horse: silver

• Georges Miez

  Individual all-around: 14th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Bottom: gold

  Horse jump: 8th place

  Bars: 27th place

  Horizontal bar: 20th place

  Rings: 64th place

  Pommel horse: 11th place

• Michael Reusch

  Individual all-around: 5th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Floor: 22nd place

  Horse jump: 7th place

  Ingot: silver

  Horizontal bar: 18th place

  Rings: 6th place

  Pommel horse: 7th place

• Eduard Steinemann

  Individual all-around: 10th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Floor: 15th place

  Horse jump: 10th place

  Bars: 8th place

  Horizontal bar: 11th place

  Rings: 31st place

  Pommel horse: 18th place

• Josef Walter

  Individual all-around: 21st place

  Team all-around: silver

  Bottom: silver

  Horse jump: 8th place

  Bars: 14th place

  Horizontal bar: 47th place

  Rings: 71st place

  Pommel horse: 32nd place

Water polo

• Men's team

  9th place (preliminary round)

• Squad

  Ferdy Denzler

  Jean Gysel

  Werner Kopp

  Heinz Meier

  Robert Mermoud

  Benjamin Vessaz

  Robert Wyss

  Roger Zirilli

Diving

• Frédéric Boeni

  Men, jumping: 21st place

• Max Happle

  Men, jumping: 23rd place

• Annie Villiger

  Women, jumping: 14th place

Others

The following awards are added to the regular medals:

• Günter and Hettie Dyhrenfurth received the Prix ​​olympique d'alpinisme for their two Himalayan expeditions.
• Alex Walter Diggelmann won a gold medal in the art competitions.
• A demonstration competition in gliding took place once at this Olympic Summer Games . The Swiss Hermann Schreiber won the gold medal.

Web links

• Swiss Olympic team 1936 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )