Olympic Summer Games 1948 / Participant (Switzerland)

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The Switzerland participated in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London , England , with a delegation of 171 athletes (165 men and six women) part.

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Hans Moser	horse riding	Dressage, singles
Emil Grünig	shoot	Free rifle
Michael Reusch	do gymnastics	Ingots
Josef Stalder	do gymnastics	Horizontal bar
Karl Frei	do gymnastics	Rings

silver

Name (s)	sport	competition
Oswald Zappelli	fencing	Rapier, single
Gaston Godel	athletics	50 kilometers of walking
Hans Kalt , Josef Kalt	rowing	Two without a helmsman
Fritz Stöckli	Wrestling	Light heavyweight, freestyle
Rudolf Schnyder	shoot	Free target gun
Rudolf Reichling , Erich Schriever , Émile Knecht , Pierre Stebler , André Moccand	rowing	Foursome without a helmsman
Walter Lehmann	do gymnastics	Individual all-around & horizontal bar
Karl Frei , Christian Kipfer , Walter Lehmann, Robert Lucy , Michael Reusch , Josef Stalder , Emil Studer , Melchior Thalmann	do gymnastics	Team all-around
Michael Reusch	do gymnastics	Rings

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Fritz Schwab	athletics	10,000 m walking
Adolf Muller	Wrestling	Featherweight, freestyle
Hermann Baumann	Wrestling	Lightweight, freestyle
Christian Kipfer	do gymnastics	Ingots
Josef Stalder	do gymnastics	Ingots

Participants by sport

basketball

• Men's team

  21st place

• Squad

  Bernard Dutoit

  Claude Chevalley

  Gérald Piaget

  Georges Stockly

  Hans Gujer

  Henri Baumann

  Jean Tribolet

  Jean Pare

  Claude Landini

  Jean Pollet

  Marcos Bossy

  Maurice Chollet

  Pierre Albrecht

  Robert Geiser

Boxing

• Edy Schmidiger

  Lightweight: 9th place

• Hermann Schneider

  Middleweight: 17th place

• Hans Schwarzmann

  Light heavyweight: 9th place

• Hans Müller

  Heavyweight: 4th place

fencing

• Georg Schlöpfer

  Foil, singles: 2nd round

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Walter Hörning

  Foil, singles: 2nd round

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Jean Rubli

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Gottfried von Meiss

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Roger's forehead

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Oswald Zappelli

  Epee, single: silver

  Epee, team: 5th place

• René Lips

  Epee, singles: 2nd round

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Rudolf Spillmann

  Epee, singles: 2nd round

• François Thiébaud

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Jean Hauert

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Otto Rüfenacht

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Michel Chamay

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Walter Widemann

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Otto Greter

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Alphonse back chair

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• René Turian

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Anna Klupfel

  Women, foil, singles: 2nd round

• Hedwig Rieder

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

• Victoria Hagemann

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

Weightlifting

• Richard Rieder

  Featherweight: 22nd place

• Fritz Mast

  Middleweight: 19th place

• Roger Rubini

  Middleweight: 23rd place

hockey

• Men's team

  5th place

• Squad

  Alois Schlee

  Ernst Grub

  Eugene Siegrist

  Franz Kehrer

  Fridolin Kurmann

  Fritz Stuehlinger

  Hugo Walser

  Hans Green

  Josef Rippstein

  Jean-Pierre Roche

  Karl Vogt

  Otto Grolimund

  Pierre Pasche

  Roger Jenzer

  Robert Eger

canoe

• Hans Straub

  Single kayak, 1000 meters: prelims

• Emil Bottlang

  Single kayak, 10,000 meters: 11th place

• Bruno Masciardi

  Two-person kayak, 1000 meters: prelims

• Franz Reiner

  Two-person kayak, 1000 meters: prelims

• Fritz Frey

  Two-person kayak, 10,000 meters: 11th place

• Werner Zimmermann

  Two-person kayak, 10,000 meters: 11th place

athletics

• Oskar Hardmeier

  400 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Walter Keller

  400 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Max Trepp

  400 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Karl Volkmer

  800 meters: semi-finals

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Hans Streuli

  800 meters: semi-finals

• Karl-Heinz Hubler

  1500 meters: heats

• Ernst Günther

  5000 meters: heats

• Kaspar Schiesser

  Marathon: 22nd place

• Jakob Jutz

  Marathon: 29th place

• Hans Frischknecht

  Marathon: DNF

• Olivier Bernard

  110 meter hurdles: semi-finals

• Werner Christians

  400 meter hurdles: prelims

• Fritz Schwab

  10 kilometers of walking: bronze

• Gaston Godel

  50 kilometers of walking: silver

• Hans Wahli

  High jump: 7th place

• Jean Studer

  Long jump: 13th place in qualification

• Willy Senn

  Shot put: Eliminated in qualifying

• Fritz Nussbaum

  Decathlon: 23rd place

• Oskar Gerber

  Decathlon: 27th place

• Armin Scheurer

  Decathlon: DNF (after the 100-meter run)

Modern pentathlon

• Bruno Riem

  Individual: 6th place

• Fritz Hegner

  Singles: 7th place

• Werner Schmid

  Individual: 27th place

Cycling

• Jakob Schenk

  Road race, individual: 13th place

  Road race, team: 6th place

• Jean Brun

  Road race, individual: 15th place

  Road race, team: 6th place

• Walter Reiser

  Road race, individual: 25th place

  Road race, team: 6th place

• Giovanni Rossi

  Road race, individual: DNF

  Road race, team: 6th place

• Jean Roth

  Sprint: 3rd round

  Tandem, sprint: 4th place

• Hans Flückiger

  Individual time trial: 4th place

• Max Aeberli

  Tandem, sprint: 4th place

• Walter Bucher

  Team pursuit: 5th place

• Gaston Gerosa

  Team pursuit: 5th place

• Eugene Kamber

  Team pursuit: 5th place

• Hans Pfenninger

  Team pursuit: 5th place

horse riding

• Hans Moser

  Dressage, individual: gold

• Alfred Blaser

  Versatility, singles: 11th place

  Versatility, team: 4th place

• Anton Bühler

  Versatility, singles: 19th place

  Versatility, team: 4th place

• Pierre Musy

  Versatility, singles: 32nd place

  Versatility, team: 4th place

Wrestling

• Adolf Muller

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 1st round

  Featherweight, freestyle: bronze

• Ambrosius Jauch

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 1st round

• Robert Digglemann

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Ernst Kolb

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Albin Dannacher

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Moritz Inderbitzin

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Walter Wenger

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Hermann Baumann

  Lightweight, freestyle: bronze

• Willy scared

  Welterweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Paul Datwyler

  Middleweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Fritz Stöckli

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: silver

• Willy Lardon

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 2nd round

rowing

• Hans Jakob Keller

  Skiff: quarterfinals

• Maurice Gueissaz

  Double scull: quarter-finals

• Maurice Matthey

  Double scull: quarter-finals

• Hans Kalt

  Two without a helmsman: silver

• Josef Kalt

  Two without a helmsman: silver

• Rudolf Reichling

  Four with helmsman: silver

• Erich Schriever

  Four with helmsman: silver

• Émile Knecht

  Four with helmsman: silver

• Pierre Stebler

  Four with helmsman: silver

• André Moccand

  Four with helmsman: silver

• Otto Burri

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Fredy Schultheiss

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Franz Starkl

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Hans Schultheiss

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Arnold Amstutz

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Moritz Grand

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Pierre Gublet

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Eugen Vollmar

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Otto Vonlaufen

  Eighth: semi-finals

shoot

• Rudolf Schnyder

  Rapid fire pistol: 20th place

  Free target pistol: silver

• Walter Lienhard

  Rapid fire pistol: 59th place

• Beat Rhyner

  Free target pistol: 5th place

• Heinz Ambühl

  Free target pistol: 15th place

• Emil Grünig

  Free rifle: gold

  Small bore, lying: 34th place

• Otto Horber

  Free rifle: 9th place

  Small bore, lying: 12th place

• Marcio Ciocco

  Free rifle: 11th place

  Small caliber, lying: 56th place

swim

• Walter Schneider

  100 meters freestyle: prelims

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

• Hans Blumer

  100 meters back: heats

• Walter Kunz

  200 meters chest: heats

• Nicolas Wildhaber

  200 meters chest: heats

• Hans Widmer

  200 meters chest: heats

• Marianne Erismann

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: prelims

• Doris Gontersweiler-Vetterli

  Women, 100 meters back: heats

• Liselotte Kobi

  Women, 200 meters chest: semi-finals

sailing

• Alfons Oswald

  Firefly: 10th place

• Hans Bryner

  Star: 15th place

• Kurt Bryner

  Star: 15th place

• Henri Copponex

  6-meter class: 7th place

• Émile Lachapelle

  6-meter class: 7th place

• André Firmenich

  6-meter class: 7th place

• Louis Noverraz

  6-meter class: 7th place

• Charles Stern

  6-meter class: 7th place

• Marcel Stern

  6-meter class: 7th place

do gymnastics

• Walter Lehmann

  Individual all-around: silver

  Team all-around: silver

  Bars: 5th place

  Floor: 29th place

  Horse jump: 8th place

  Horizontal bar: silver

  Rings: 4th place

  Pommel horse: 11th place

• Josef Stalder

  Individual all-around: 4th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Ingot: bronze

  Floor: 16th place

  Horse jump: 38th place

  Horizontal bar: gold

  Rings: 5th place

  Pommel horse: 8th place

• Christian Kipfer

  Individual all-around: 5th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Ingot: bronze

  Floor: 29th place

  Horse jump: 14th place

  Horizontal bar: 9th place

  Rings: 11th place

  Pommel horse: 14th place

• Emil Studer

  Individual all-around: 6th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Bars: 21st place

  Floor: 41st place

  Horse jump: 10th place

  Horizontal bar: 4th place

  Rings: 5th place

  Pommel horse: 8th place

• Robert Lucy

  Individual all-around: 15th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Bars: 21st place

  Floor: 41st place

  Horse jump: 14th place

  Horizontal bar: 23rd place

  Rings: 24th place

  Pommel horse: 16th place

• Michael Reusch

  Individual all-around: 18th place

  Team all-around: silver

  Ingot: gold

  Floor: 67th place

  Horse jump: 84th place

  Horizontal bar: 12th place

  Rings: silver

  Pommel horse: 7th place

• Melchior Thalmann

  Individual all-around: 21st place

  Team all-around: silver

  Bars: 20th place

  Floor: 25th place

  Horse jump: 20th place

  Horizontal bar: 46th place

  Rings: 31st place

  Pommel horse: 23rd place

• Karl Frei

  Individual all-around: 32nd place

  Team all-around: silver

  Bars: 30th place

  Floor: 56th place

  Horse jump: 64th place

  Horizontal bar: 65th place

  Rings: gold

  Pommel horse: 26th place

Water polo

• Men's team

  13th place

• Squad

  André Grosjean

  Erwin Klumpp

  Edouard Hauser

  Georges Hauser

  Tristan Sauer

  René Weibel

  Heinrich Keller

Diving

• Ernst Strupler

  Art jumping: 25th place

  Diving: 25th place

• Willy Rist

  Diving: 23rd place

Web links

• Swiss Olympic team from 1948 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )