Olympic Summer Games 1968 / Participant (Switzerland)

SUI

-	1	4th

The Switzerland participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , Mexico , with a delegation of 85 athletes (81 men and four women) part.

Medalist

silver

Name (s)	sport	competition
Bernard Dunand , Louis Noverraz , Marcel Stern	sailing	5.5 mR class

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Xaver Kurmann	Cycling	Individual tracking
Henri Chammartin , Gustav Reiter , Marianne Gossweiler	horse riding	Dressage, team
Denis Oswald , Peter Bolliger , Hugo Waser , Jakob Grob , Gottlieb Fröhlich	rowing	Foursome with a helmsman
Kurt Mueller	shoot	Free rifle

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Max Hebeisen

  Welterweight: 9th place

fencing

• Denys chamay

  Epee, team: 1st round

• Peter Loetscher

  Epee, singles: 7th place

  Epee, team: 1st round

• Christian Kauter

  Epee, team: 1st round

• Alexandre Bretholz

  Epee, singles: 25th place

  Epee, team: 1st round

• Michel Steininger

  Epee, singles: 25th place

  Epee, team: 1st round

athletics

• Hansruedi Wiedmer

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: quarter-finals

• Hansrüedi Knill

  1500 meters: semi-finals

• Werner Schneiter

  5000 meters: heats

• Josef Gwerder

  Marathon: 32nd place

• Helmut Kunisch

  Marathon: 44th place

• Edgar Friedli

  Marathon: race not finished

• Daniel Riedo

  110 meter hurdles: semi-finals

• Hans Menet

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• René Pfister

  20 kilometers of walking: 23rd place

• Erwin Stütz

  50 kilometers of walking: 20th place

• Michel Portmann

  High jump: 28th place in qualification

• Thomas Wieser

  High jump: 31st place in qualification

• Heinz Wyss

  Pole vault: 22nd place in qualification

• Edy Hubacher

  Shot put: 15th place in qualification

  Discus throw: 25th place in qualification

• Ernst Ammann

  Hammer throw: 19th place in qualification

• Urs von Wartburg

  Javelin throw: 8th place

• Rolf Bühler

  Javelin throw: 27th place in qualification

• Urs Trautmann

  Decathlon: 18th place

• Hansruedi Kunz

  Decathlon: competition not finished

• Werner Duttweiler

  Decathlon: competition not finished

• Meta antennas

  Women, 80 meter hurdles: prelims

  Women, pentathlon: 8th place

• Sieglinde Ammann

  Women, long jump: Eliminated in qualification

  Women, pentathlon: 23rd place

Modern pentathlon

• Alex Tschui

  Singles: 26th place

Cycling

• Bruno Hubschmid

  Road race, individual: Race not finished

  Team Pursuit: Prelims

• Xaver Kurmann

  Individual pursuit: bronze

  Team Pursuit: Prelims

• Walter Richard

  Team Pursuit: Prelims

• Jürgen Schneider

  Team Pursuit: Prelims

horse riding

• Gustav Fischer

  Dressage, individual: 7th place

  Dressage, team: bronze

• Henri Chammartin

  Dressage, individual: 9th place

  Dressage, team: bronze

• Marianne Gossweiler

  Dressage, individual: 10th place

  Dressage, team: bronze

• Monica Bachmann-Weier

  Show jumping, singles: 7th place

  Show jumping, team: 6th place

• Arthur Blickenstorfer

  Show jumping, singles: 13th place

  Show jumping, team: 6th place

• Paul Weier

  Show jumping, singles: 21st place

  Show jumping, team: 6th place

Wrestling

• Jimmy Martinetti

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Welterweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Jean-Marie Chardonnens

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Middleweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Peter Jutzeler

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

rowing

• Hans Ruckstuhl

  One: DNS in the second round

  Double scull: 11th place

• Melchior surety

  Double scull: 11th place

• Martin Studach

  Double scull: 11th place

• Fred Rüssli

  Two without a helmsman: 5th place

• Werner Zwimpfer

  Two without a helmsman: 5th place

• Urs Fankhauser

  Two with a helmsman: 7th place

• Urs Bitterli

  Two with a helmsman: 7th place

• Beat Wirz

  Two with a helmsman: 7th place

• Roland Altenburger

  Four without a helmsman: 4th place

• Nicolas Gobet

  Four without a helmsman: 4th place

• Franz Rentsch

  Four without a helmsman: 4th place

• Alfred Meister

  Four without a helmsman: 4th place

• Denis Oswald

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Hugo Waser

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Peter Bolliger

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Jakob Grob

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Gottlieb Fröhlich

  Four with helmsman: bronze

shoot

• Kurt Klingler

  Rapid Fire Pistol: 40th place

• Josef Ziltener

  Rapid Fire Pistol: 42nd place

• Ernst Stoll

  Free pistol: 12th place

• Albert Spani

  Free pistol: 23rd place

• Kurt Mueller

  Free rifle: bronze

  Small bore, three position fight: 8th place

• Erwin Vogt

  Free rifle: 5th place

• Peter Ruch

  Small caliber, three-position fight: 30th place

• Hansrüdi Schafroth

  Small caliber, lying: 23rd place

• Hans Sinniger

  Small bore, lying: 58th place

• Paul Vittet

  Skeet: 32nd place

swim

• Pano Capéronis

  100 meters freestyle: prelims

  200 meters freestyle: prelims

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

  4 × 100 meter layers: preliminary runs

• Gerald Evard

  100 meters back: heats

  200 meters back: heats

  4 × 100 meter layers: preliminary runs

• Nicolas Gilliard

  100 meter chest: heats

  200 meters chest: heats

  4 × 100 meter layers: preliminary runs

• Ayis Capéronis

  100 meter butterfly: prelims

  4 × 100 meter layers: preliminary runs

sailing

• Alex Bally

  Finn dinghy: 16th place

• Edwin Bernet

  Star: 8th place

• Rolf Amrein

  Star: 8th place

• Louis Noverraz

  5.5 mR class: silver

• Bernard Dunand

  5.5 mR class: silver

• Marcel Stern

  5.5 mR class: silver

do gymnastics

• Meinrad Berchtold

  Individual all-around: 25th place

  Team all-around: 9th place

  Bars: 23rd place in qualification

  Floor: 57th place in qualification

  Horse jump: 18th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 29th place in qualification

  Rings: 38th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 36th place in qualification

• Hans Ettlin

  Individual all-around: 29th place

  Team all-around: 9th place

  Bars: 15th place in qualification

  Floor: 71st place in qualification

  Horse jump: 37th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 23rd place in qualification

  Rings: 20th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 65th place in qualification

• Peter Rohner

  Individual all-around: 31st place

  Team all-around: 9th place

  Bars: 35th place in qualification

  Floor: 37th place in qualification

  Horse jump: 63rd place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 38th place in qualification

  Rings: 54th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 26th place in qualification

• Roland Hurzeler

  Individual all-around: 49th place

  Team all-around: 9th place

  Bars: 12th place in qualification

  Floor: 69th place in qualification

  Horse jump: 75th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 74th place in qualification

  Rings: 68th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 29th place in qualification

• Paul Muller

  Individual all-around: 59th place

  Team all-around: 9th place

  Bars: 45th place in qualification

  Floor: 79th place in qualification

  Horse jump: 96th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 75th place in qualification

  Rings: 54th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 22nd place in qualification

• Edwin Greutmann

  Individual all-around: 70th place

  Team all-around: 9th place

  Bars: 57th place in qualification

  Floor: 69th place in qualification

  Horse jump: 87th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 65th place in qualification

  Rings: 67th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 76th place in qualification

Web links

• Swiss Olympic team from 1968 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )