Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Participant (Switzerland)

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The Switzerland participated in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in the Chinese capital Beijing with 84 of the Swiss Olympic Association nominated athletes, 38 women and 46 men in 20 sports part.

Since 1896 it was Switzerland's 26th participation in the Summer Olympics . This made Switzerland, along with Australia , Greece , France and the United Kingdom, one of the five nations that had previously participated in all the Summer Olympics.

Flag bearer

Like four years before, tennis player Roger Federer carried the flag of Switzerland during the opening ceremony ; at the closing ceremony it was worn by judoka Sergei Aschwanden .

Medals

With two won gold, one silver and four bronze, the Swiss team was ranked 34 in the medal count .

sport				total
Judo	-	-	1	1
Cycling	1	1	2	4th
horse riding	-	-	1	1
tennis	1	-	-	1
total	2	1	4th	7th

Medalist

gold

Name / s	sport	competition
Fabian Cancellara	wheel	Time trial
Roger Federer & Stan Wawrinka	tennis	Double

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Fabian Cancellara	wheel	Street racing

bronze

Karin Thürig

Name / s	sport	competition
Sergei Aschwanden	Judo	medium weight
Karin Thürig	wheel	Time trial
Nino Schurter	wheel	Mountain bike
Christina Liebherr on No Mercy , Pius Schwizer on Nobless M , Niklaus Schurtenberger on Cantus & Steve Guerdat on Jalisca Solier	horse riding	Team show jumping

annotation

Due to a doping offense committed by the Norwegian show jumpers, the Swiss show jumpers were subsequently awarded a bronze medal. On November 17, 2009, the Italian Davide Rebellin was officially stripped of her silver medal in the street race because of a doping offense. Fabian Cancellara subsequently received the silver medal.

Participants by sport

The Swiss Olympic Association named 83 athletes by July 22, 2008. The beach volleyball duo Kuhn / Schwer was nominated on July 31, 2008. Road cyclist Michael Albasini had to be withdrawn from the Swiss Olympic team before the start of the Olympic Games due to a serious shoulder injury. Show jumper Beat Mändli also had to give up before the start of the Olympic Equestrian Games in Hong Kong because of an injury to his top horse Idéo du Thot . On the other hand, the freestyle wrestler Grégory Sarrasin was nominated. The Swiss Olympic delegation thus comprised 84 athletes and four substitute athletes. It was the smallest Swiss team in 32 years.

badminton

• Women: Jeanine Cicognini

  Singles: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Men: Christian Bösiger

  Singles: eliminated in the 2nd round

beach volleyball

• Women
  • Simone Kuhn , Lea Schwer : eliminated in the preliminary round
• Men
  • Patrick Heuscher , Sascha Heyer : 17th place
  • Martin Laciga , Jan Schnider : eliminated in the last sixteen

Archery

• Nathalie floorboards
  • Singles, women: 54th place

fencing

• Sophie Lamon

  Epee singles, women: eliminated in the round of 16

• Michael Kauter

  Epee singles, men: eliminated in the last sixteen

Judo

• Men: Sergei Aschwanden

  Middleweight: bronze

canoe

Canoe slalom

• Michael Kurt

  Men, Kayak One: 17th place

athletics

• Women:
  • Nicole Büchler

  Pole vault: 22nd place

  • Linda Züblin

  Heptathlon: 30th place

• Men:
  • Philipp Bandi

  5000 m: 29th place

  • Marco Cribari

  200 m: 37th place

  • Julien Fivaz

  Long jump: 36th place

  • Andreas Kundert

  110 m hurdles: start canceled due to illness

  • Viktor Röthlin

  Marathon: 6th place

  • Marc Schneeberger

  200 m: 31st place

Modern pentathlon

• Belinda Schreiber

  Singles, women: 11th place

Cycling

• Women:
  • Nicole Brändli

  Road race: 18th place

  • Priska Doppmann

  Road race: 7th place

  Time trial: 8th place

  • Jenny Faehndrich

  BMX: eliminated in the semi-finals (6th place out of 8)

  • Petra Henzi

  Mountain bike: 6th place

  • Jennifer Hohl

  Road racing: abandoned

  • Nathalie Schneitter

  Mountain bike: 15th place

  • Karin Thürig

  Time trial: bronze

  Individual pursuit: 9th place

• Men:
  • Fabian Cancellara

  Road race: silver

  Time trial: gold

  • Roger Rinderknecht

  BMX: eliminated in the semi-finals (7th place out of 8)

  • Bruno Risi / Franco Marvulli

  Madison: 11th place

  • Christoph Sauser

  Mountain bike: 4th place

  • Nino Schurter

  Mountain bike: bronze

  • Florian Vogel

  Mountain bike: abandoned

horse riding

• Show jumping:
  • Steve Guerdat

  Team: bronze

  Singles: 10th place

  • Christina Liebherr

  Team: bronze

  Missed qualification for the individual competition

  • Niklaus Schurtenberger

  Team: bronze

  Individual: 23rd place

  • Pius Schwizer

  Team: bronze

  Individual: 23rd place

• Versatility:
  • Tiziana Realini

  Singles: 37th place

Wrestling

• Grégory Sarrasin

  Freestyle –66 kg, men: 21st place

rowing

• André Vonarburg

  One, men: 9th place

shoot

• Women:
  • Irene Beyeler

  Rifle three-position match: 23rd place

  Air rifle: 16th place

  • Cornelia Froelich

  Air pistol: 17th place

  • Sandra Kolly

  Air pistol: 27th place

  Sports pistol: 29th place

  • Annik Marguet

  Rifle three-position match: 25th place

  Air rifle: 33rd place

• Men:
  • Simon Beyeler

  Rifle prone match: 48th place

  Air rifle: 45th place

  • Marcel Bürge

  Rifle prone match: 32nd place

  Three-position match: 35th place

  • Beat Mueller

  Three-position match: 21st place

  • Christoph Schmid

  Free pistol: 40th place

  Air pistol: 33rd place

swim

• Women:
  • Swann Oberson

  Long distance swimming: 6th place

  • Flavia Rigamonti

  400 m freestyle: 14th place

  800 m freestyle: Eliminated in the preliminary run

• Men:
  • Flori Lang

  50 m freestyle: 19th place

  4 × 100 m freestyle: 13th place

  • Jonathan Massacand

  100 m back: 27th place

  200 m back: 32nd place

  • Dominik Meichtry

  100 m freestyle: 16th place

  200 m freestyle: 6th place

  4 × 100 m freestyle: 13th place

  400 m freestyle: 27th place

  • Karel Novy

  4 × 100 m freestyle: 13th place

  • Adrien Perez

  4 × 100 m freestyle: 13th place

  • Gregory Widmer (replacement 4 × 100 m freestyle)

sailing

• Women:
  • Nathalie Brugger

  Laser Radial: 6th place

  • Emmanuelle Rol / Anne-Sophie Thilo

  470s: 17th place

• Men:
  • Christoph Bottoni

  Laser: 37th place

  • Tobias Etter / Felix Steiger

  470s: 23rd place

  • Enrico De Maria / Flavio Marazzi

  Star: 5th place

  • Richard Stauffacher

  Windsurfing: 14th place

Synchronized swimming

• Magdalena Brunner / Ariane Schneider : 12th place

Taekwondo

• Manuela Bezzola

  Class up to 49 kg, women: eliminated in the 1st round

tennis

• Timea Bacsinszky

  Women, singles: eliminated in the 1st round

• Roger Federer

  Men, singles: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Men, doubles: gold

• Emmanuelle Gagliardi :

  Women, doubles: eliminated in the round of 16

• Patty Schnyder

  Women, singles: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Women, doubles: eliminated in the round of 16

• Stan Wawrinka

  Men, singles: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Men, doubles: gold

Triathlon

• Women:
  • Magali Di Marco Messmer : 13th place
  • Daniela Ryf : 7th place
  • Nicola Spirig : 6th place

• Men:
  • Reto Hug : 29th place
  • Olivier Marceau : 19th place
  • Sven Riederer : 23rd place

do gymnastics

• Ariella Kaeslin

  All around, women: 18th place

  Jump, women: 5th place

• Claudio Capelli

  All around, men: 35th place

• Christoph Schärer

  All around, men: 91st place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ swissolympic.ch: Swiss flag bearers since 1948 . Retrieved February 20, 2010.
2. ↑ NZZ Online : Holidays in the glamor of Olympic bronze . Retrieved February 20, 2010.
3. ↑ velonation.com: Rebellin officially loses Olympic silver medal (accessed November 27, 2009)
4. ↑ The Swiss team at www.sports-reference.com

Web links

• Swiss Olympic team 2008 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )