Olympic history of Switzerland

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The Swiss Olympic Movement has been supported by the Swiss Olympic Association since January 1st, 1997 . It is the umbrella organization of all Swiss sports associations for Olympic and non-Olympic sports. The result is Swiss Olympic from the union of the Swiss National Association for Sport (SLS) and the Swiss Olympic Committee (SOC). The National Committee for Elite Sport (NKES) was integrated into the organization when it was founded . The SOC was founded in 1912 and accepted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the same year .

Switzerland is also home to the international Olympic movement. Lausanne has been the seat of the International Olympic Committee since 1915 . There are currently four Swiss members of the IOC: Denis Oswald (President of FISA , since 1991), René Fasel (President of IIHF , since 1995), FIS President Gian-Franco Kasper (since 2000) and Patrick Baumann, FIBA Secretary General ( since 2007).

Participation

Switzerland was not represented by a national team at the 1st Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 . Louis Zutter , the first Swiss Olympic champion, had only traveled to Greece as a private person. Since then, the Swiss Confederation has participated in all summer and winter games. In 1956, only the riders took part in the equestrian competitions that were outsourced to Stockholm in June . The main event in Melbourne at the end of November was boycotted by Switzerland to protest against the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary three weeks before the start of the Games.

Host

Successful applications

St. Moritz 1948

So far, Switzerland has hosted two Winter Olympic Games. As the host of the Summer Olympics, the Netherlands could not exercise its right to host the 1928 Winter Games . Three Swiss locations competed to be held. As the venue, St. Moritz prevailed over Davos and Engelberg . The 1948 Winter Olympics also took place in St. Moritz. The IOC members gave preference to the Swiss community over Lake Placid in the United States .

The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games will take place in Lausanne and the surrounding area .

Failed applications

The following applications or application preparations were unsuccessful:

• St. Moritz 1936 (winter)
• Lausanne 1936 (summer)
• Lausanne 1944 (summer)
• Lausanne 1948 (summer)
• Lausanne 1952 (summer)
• St. Moritz 1960 (winter)
• Lausanne 1960 (summer)
• Sion 1976 (winter)
• Sion 2002 (winter)
• Sion 2006 (winter)
• Bern 2010 (winter)
• Winter Games 2014 in Zurich:
  For the Olympic Winter Games 2014 , Zurich should first go into the application race as a Swiss candidate. This was decided by the Swiss Olympic Association on March 29, 2004 and gave the city preference over Davos, as it did not meet the requirements of the International Olympic Committee for an applicant city. Due to the lack of political will and financial considerations, the organizers of the application decided on September 14, 2004 to forego an Olympic candidacy.
• Winter Games 2022 in Graubünden or 2026 in Sion:
  Two candidatures were submitted to Swiss Olympic in December 2016 to host the Winter Olympic Games in Switzerland . The project of the four cantons Wallis, Waadt, Friborg and Bern envisaged Sion as the host city . The second project came from the canton of Graubünden and included games in St. Moritz, Davos, Arosa, Lenzerheide, Flims / Laax and Chur. After the electorate of the canton of Graubünden rejected a project loan of around 60% in February 2017, only the Sion 2026 project remained in the running. Swiss Olympic wanted to decide in March 2017 whether it wanted to forward the project to the IOC between late autumn 2018 and early 2019. The state government spoke out in favor of sharing the costs for the Winter Games in 2026, but did not want to commit to a maximum payment limit. In March 2017, the Executive Council of Swiss Olympic gave the green light for a candidacy for the 2026 Winter Games with Hostcity Sion . In June 2018, the Valais electorate rejected a cantonal contribution of 100 million francs for the staging of the Winter Olympic Games. So the attempt for the Olympics failed.

The most successful participants

So far, 514 Swiss athletes have won 345 Olympic medals (105 gold, 121 silver, 119 bronze). The most successful athletes were there:

Summer Olympics : Georges Miez (gymnastics): 4 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze Konrad Stäheli (shooting): 3 gold, 1 bronze Eugen Mack (gymnastics): 2 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze Hermann Hänggi (gymnastics): 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze Fabian Cancellara (cycling): 2 gold, 1 silver Emil Kellenberger (shooting): 2 gold, 1 silver Hans Walter (rowing): 2 gold, 1 silver August Güttinger (gymnastics): 2 gold, 2 bronze Louis-Marcel Richardet (shooting): 2 gold Konrad Röderer (shooting): 2 gold Michael Reusch (gymnastics): 1 gold, 4 silver Josef Stalder (gymnastics): 1 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze Christine Stückelberger (riding): 1 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze

Olympic Winter Games : Simon Ammann (ski jumping): 4 gold Dario Cologna (cross-country skiing): 4 gold Vreni Schneider (Alpine skiing): 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze Donat Acklin (Bob): 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze Gustav Weder (Bob): 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze Marie-Theres Nadig (Alpine skiing): 2 gold, 1 bronze Philipp Schoch (snowboard): 2 gold Josef Benz (Bob): 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze Erich Schärer (Bob): 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze Wendy Holdener (alpine skiing): 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze Hippolyt Kempf (Northern combination): 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze

See also : List of Olympic medalists from Switzerland

Medals balance

With 330 medals won so far, Switzerland ranks 17th in the all-time medal table of the Olympic Games . With three exceptions (London 1908, Stockholm 1912 and Innsbruck 1964), the Swiss team returned from all participations with at least one Olympic medal. The historic low of Innsbruck in 1964 led to profound changes in Swiss sport.

Summer games year place G S. B. total athlete 1896 Athens 1 2 0 3 2 1900 Paris 6th 2 1 9 17th 1904 St. Louis 1 0 1 2 1 1908 London 0 0 0 0 1 1912 Stockholm 0 0 0 0 1 1920 Antwerp 2 2 7th 11 75 1924 Paris 7th 8th 10 25th 127 1928 Amsterdam 7th 4th 4th 15th 115 1932 los Angeles 0 1 0 1 5 1936 Berlin 1 9 5 15th 174 1948 London 5 10 5 20th 175 1952 Helsinki 2 6th 6th 14th 156 1956 Melbourne 0 0 1 1 9 1960 Rome 0 3 3 6th 149 1964 Tokyo 1 2 1 4th 66 1968 Mexico city 0 1 4th 5 84 1972 Munich 0 3 0 3 151 1976 Montréal 1 1 2 4th 50 1980 Moscow 2 0 0 2 72 1984 los Angeles 0 4th 4th 8th 128 1988 Seoul 0 2 2 4th 97 1992 Barcelona 1 0 0 1 101 1996 Atlanta 4th 3 0 7th 116 2000 Sydney 1 6th 2 9 102 2004 Athens 1 1 3 5 98 2008 Beijing 2 1 4th 7th 84 2012 London 2 2 0 4th 102 2016 Rio de Janeiro 3 2 2 7th 104 total 50 75 67 192

Winter games year place G S. B. total athlete - - - - - 1924 Chamonix 1 0 1 2 27 1928 St. Moritz 0 0 1 1 41 1932 Lake Placid 0 1 0 1 7th 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1 2 0 3 34 1948 St. Moritz 3 4th 3 10 68 1952 Oslo 0 0 2 2 54 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 2 1 6th 59 1960 Squaw Valley 2 0 0 2 21st 1964 innsbruck 0 0 0 0 72 1968 Grenoble 0 2 4th 6th 34 1972 Sapporo 4th 3 3 10 52 1976 innsbruck 1 3 1 5 60 1980 Lake Placid 1 1 3 5 44 1984 Sarajevo 2 2 1 5 42 1988 Calgary 5 5 5 15th 67 1992 Albertville 1 0 2 3 74 1994 Lillehammer 3 4th 2 9 59 1998 Nagano 2 2 3 7th 69 2002 Salt Lake City 3 2 6th 11 114 2006 Turin 5 4th 5 14th 130 2010 Vancouver 6th 0 3 9 146 2014 Sochi 7th 2 2 11 163 2018 Pyeongchang 5 6th 4th 15th 167 total 55 45 52 152

See also

• List of the flag bearers of the Swiss teams at the Olympic Games

Web links

Commons : Switzerland at the Olympic Games  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Swiss Olympic Association
• The Switzerland on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• The Switzerland in the database of Sports-Reference (English, archived by the original )
• Marie-Hélène Guex: Olympic Movement. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrea Kucera: Swiss Olympic candidacy: Four cantons are behind “Sion 2026” In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 16, 2016.
2. ↑ Peter Jankovsky: Olympic Winter Games 2026: Breathless sprint of the Bündner In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from December 16, 2016
3. ^ Jörg Krummenacher: Winter Games "Sion 2026": The only, self-confident Olympic applicant. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 14, 2017
4. ^ Daniel Germann: Sion 2026: A new attempt towards the Olympics In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 7, 2017
5. ↑ Jörg Krummenacher: Swiss Olympic President Jürg Stahl: “We must have the courage to be pioneers” In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 9, 2017
6. ↑ The Valais does not want the Olympic Winter Games. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from June 10, 2018
7. ↑ Switzerland is experiencing a historical debacle with the “Disgrace of Innsbruck” In: Watson of February 9, 2020