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Switzerland at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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Switzerland at the 1936 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Swiss Olympic Association

Website
  
www.swissolympic.ch (German) (French)

Competitors
  
190 (184 men and 6 women) in 21 sports

Medals Ranked 16th
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 9 5 15

Switzerland competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 190 competitors, 184 men and 6 women, took part in 100 events in 21 sports.

Contents

Gold

  • Georges Miez — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises

    • Silver

  • Arthur Tell Schwab — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
  • Edgar Buchwalder, Ernst Nievergelt and Kurt Ott — Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
  • Eugen Mack — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
  • Michael Reusch — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
  • Eugen Mack — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault
  • Eugen Mack — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse
  • Josef Walter — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
  • Albert Bachmann, Walter Bach, Eugen Mack, Georges Miez, Michael Reusch, and Edi Steinemann — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises
  • Hermann Betschart, Alex Homberger, Hans Homberger, Karl Schmid, and Rolf Spring — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours

    • Bronze

  • Ernst Nievergelt — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
  • Albert Bachmann — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse
  • Eugen Mack — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
  • Max Bloesch, Rolf Fäs, Willy Gysi, Erland Herkenrath, Ernst Hufschmid, Willy Hufschmid, Werner Meyer, Georg Mischon, Willy Schäfer, Werner Scheurmann, Edy Schmid, Erich Schmitt, Eugen Seiterle, Max Streib, Robert Studer, and Rudolf Wirz — Handball, Men's Team Competition
  • Hermann Betschart, Alex Homberger, Hans Homberger, and Karl Schmid — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours

    • Cycling

    Eleven cyclists, all men, represented Switzerland in 1936.

    Individual road race
  • Ernst Nievergelt
  • Edgar Buchwalder
  • Kurt Ott
  • Gottlieb Weber
    • Team road race
  • Ernst Nievergelt
  • Edgar Buchwalder
  • Kurt Ott
  • Gottlieb Weber
    • Sprint
  • Werner Wägelin
    • Time trial
  • Edy Baumann
    • Tandem
  • Karl Burkhart
  • Fritz Ganz
    • Team pursuit
  • Walter Richli
  • Ernst Fuhrimann
  • Albert Kägi
  • Werner Wägelin

    • Fencing

    18 fencers, 15 men and 3 women, represented Switzerland in 1936.

    Men's foil
  • Michel Fauconnet
  • Gottfried von Meiss
  • Jean Rubli
    • Men's team foil
  • Michel Fauconnet, Édouard Fitting, Jean Rubli, Gottfried von Meiss, Constantin Antoniades
    • Men's épée
  • Frédéric Fitting
  • Jean Hauert
  • François Duret
    • Men's team épée
  • Jean Hauert, Édouard Fitting, Frédéric Fitting, Edmond Göldlin, Paul de Graffenried, Charles Hauert
    • Men's sabre
  • Adolf Stocker
  • Charles Glasstetter
  • Alphonse Ruckstuhl
    • Men's team sabre
  • Charles Glasstetter, Alphonse Ruckstuhl, Walter Widemann, Adolf Stocker
    • Women's foil
  • Ingeborg Scheel
  • Denise Kramer-Scholer
  • Yvonne Bornand

    • Modern pentathlon

    Three male pentathletes represented Switzerland in 1936.

  • Karl Wyss
  • Willy Grundbacher
  • Hans Baumann

    • References

    Switzerland at the 1936 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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