Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Participant (Switzerland)

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The Switzerland took part in the Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix in part with a delegation of 27 athletes in four sports. The Swiss NOK had registered 42 athletes for the games, of which 27 took part in competitions. The members of the military patrol do not count as official Olympic participants. A total of 5 athletes took part in the Olympic Games for the second time:

• Louis Dufour (1920 ice hockey)
• Max Holzboer (1920 ice hockey)
• Marius Jaccard (1920 ice hockey)
• Bruno Leuzinger (1920 ice hockey)
• René Savoie (1920 ice hockey)

Summary: The Swiss had the closest of all participants. Chamonix is ​​only a few kilometers from the Swiss border and so it came about that a large contingent of 42 athletes should take part in the winter sports week. In the end, there were only 27 who entered the competitions. Gold for Lieutenant Denis Vaucher's military patrol and for Eduard Scherrer's four-man bobsleigh and bronze for figure skater Georges Gautschi . A record that is impressive, especially since Gautschi's third place came as a complete surprise. Afterwards: The gold medal of the military patrol was unofficial, did not count - because of the demonstration competition - and so only one gold and one bronze each are left for the result lists. The highly favored curling team had not come for whatever reason. As expected, the skiers stayed in the midfield and fought especially with the Italians and the Czechoslovaks for places after the Scandinavians. The best here were Walter Buchberger with 7th place in Nordic combined and Alexandre Girard-Bille with 8th place in ski jumping.

Participants by sport

Skiing (7)

• Xaver Affentranger

  18 km cross-country skiing (22nd place), Nordic combined (17th place), ski jumping (24th place)

• Alfred Aufdenblatten

  50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Hans Eidenbenz

  18 km cross-country skiing (25th place), Nordic combined (15th place), ski jumping (23rd place)

• Alexandre Girard-Bille

  18 km cross-country skiing (26th place), Nordic combined (14th place), ski jumping (8th place)

• Hans Herrmann

  50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Antoine Julen

  50 km cross-country skiing (dns) also military patrol

• Simon Julén

  50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Peter Schmid

  18 km cross-country skiing (14th place), Nordic combined (11th place), ski jumping (18th place)

Military patrol

30 km military patrol (gold )

• Alfred Aufdenblatten
• Antoine Julen also goes skiing
• Alphonse Julen
• Denis Vaucher captain

Figure skating (1)

• Georges Gautschi

  Men (bronze )

• Albert Megroz

  Men (dns)

Speed ​​skating

• Alexander Spengler

  500 m (dns), 1500 m (dns), 5000 m (dns), 10000 m (dns), all-around (dns)

Ice Hockey (11)

Ice hockey team (7th place)

• Fred Auckenthaler
• Walter von Siebenthal captain
• Emil Filliol
• Marius Jaccard
• Emile Jacquet
• Bruno Leuzinger
• Ernest Mottier
• Peter "Putzi" Müller
• René Savoie
• Donald Unger
• André Verdeil

Reserve: Louis Dufour , Max Holzboer

Curling

Curling team (dns)

• H. Buchli
• J. Caprez
• Castan
• C. Genillard
• A. Rocco
• H. Roelli
• P. Wieland
• W. Wieland

Bobsleigh (8)

4- man bobsleigh I (dnf)

• Alois Faigle
• Anton Guldener
• Charles Stoffel (pilot)
• Edmond LaRoche

4-man bobsleigh II (gold )

• Eduard Scherrer (pilot)
• Alfred Neveu
• Alfred Schläppi
• Heinrich Schläppi

Reserve: C. Payer, H. Rigazio

Medals

	gold	silver	bronze	Total
Switzerland	1	0	1	2

Medalist

Gold medals

Bobsleigh: Four-man Bobsleigh II Eduard Scherrer (pilot) , Alfred Neveu , Alfred Schläppi and Heinrich Schläppi

The gold medal of the military patrol is not counted as it was a demonstration competition .

Silver medals

no

Bronze medals

• Figure skating, men: Georges Gautschi

Web links

• Swiss Olympic team 1924 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1924 Olympic Games (PDF file; 86.30 MB)