Olympic Winter Games 1948 / participant (Switzerland)

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The Switzerland took part in the V Olympic Winter Games in 1948 in St. Moritz with a delegation of 70 athletes, eleven women, in part. It hosted the Winter Olympics for the second time since 1928.

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was bobsleigh driver Felix Endrich . At the closing ceremony, the skier Karl Molitor carried the Swiss flag.

Male participants from Switzerland
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
bob	Fritz after work Fritz Waller Felix Endrich Heinrich Angst	Four-man bobsleigh	4th	Switzerland I.
	Franz Kapus Rolf Spring Bernhard Schilter Paul Hans Eberhard	Four-man bobsleigh	8th	Switzerland II
	Fritz retirement Paul Hans Eberhard	Two-man bobsleigh		Switzerland I.
	Felix Endrich Fritz Waller	Two-man bobsleigh		Switzerland II
ice Hockey	Hans Bänninger Alfred Bieler Heinrich Boller Ferdinand Cattini Hans Cattini Hans Dürst Walter Dürst Emil Handschin Heini Lohrer Werner Lohrer Reto Perl Gebhard Poltera Ulrich Poltera Beat Rüedi Otto Schubiger Richard Torriani Hans Trepp	-
figure skating	Karl Enderlin	Men's	14th
	Hans Gerschwiler	Men's
	Hans Kuster	Pair skating	12	together with Luny Unold
Speed ​​skating	Alfred Altenburger	5000 m	39
	Heinz Hügelshofer	5000 m	33
	Rudolf Kleiner	500 m	39
		1500 m	42
	Joseph Rogger	1500 m	43
		5000 m	34
	Hanspeter Vogt	1500 m	34
skeleton	Dialma Balsegia	-	dnf
	Milo Bigler	-	dnf
	Christian Fischbacher	-	dnf
	Gottfried Kägi	-	5
Alpine skiing	Karl Gamma	slalom	dnf
	Fernand Grosjean	Departure	8th
		combination	16
	Karl Molitor	Departure
		combination
		slalom	8th
	Adolf Odermatt	Departure	11
		combination	15th
	Ralph Olinger	Departure
	Edy Reinalter	Departure	22nd
		combination	10
		slalom
	Georges Schneider	slalom	13
	Romedi Spada	Departure	18th
	Alfred Stäger	Departure	dnf
Nordic skiing	Niklaus Stump Robert Zurbriggen Max Müller Edi Schild	4 × 10 km cross-country skiing	5
	Theo Allenbach	18 km cross-country skiing	30th
		combination	17th
	Louis Bourban	50 km cross-country skiing	19th
	Karl Brickler	18 km cross-country skiing	41
	Andreas Däscher	Special jumping	17th
	Willy Klopfenstein	Special jumping	13
	Max Muller	18 km cross-country skiing	25th
		50 km cross-country skiing	17th
	Gottlieb Perren	18 km cross-country skiing	43
		combination	18th
	Edi shield	18 km cross-country skiing	20th
		50 km cross-country skiing	6th
	Niklaus Stump	18 km cross-country skiing	20th
		combination	4th
	Alfons Supersaxo	18 km cross-country skiing	34
		combination	13
	Fritz Tschannen	Special jumping	9
	Hans Zurbriggen	Special jumping	10
	Robert Zurbriggen	18 km cross-country skiing	26th

Female participants from Switzerland
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
figure skating	Doris Blanc	Ladies	25th
	Lotti Höner	Ladies	23
	Maya Hug	Ladies	15th
	Luny Unold	Pair skating	12	together with Hans Kuster
Alpine skiing	Olivia Ausoni	Departure	24
		slalom	17th
		combination	26th
	Rosmarie Bleuer	Departure	9
		combination	6th
		slalom	13
	Renée Clerc	slalom	5
	Antoinette Meyer	Departure	11
		slalom
	Lina Mittner	Departure	5
		combination	14th
	Irène Molitor	Departure	14th
	Hedy Schlunegger	Departure
		combination	8th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ swissolympic.ch: Swiss flag bearers since 1948 . Retrieved February 20, 2010.

Web links

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