Switzerland at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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| At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens | ||||||||||
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| Flag bearer | Roger Federer | |||||||||
| Medals Rank: 46 |
Gold 1 |
Silver 1 |
Bronze 3 |
Total 5 |
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Switzerland competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
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[edit] Medals
| Medal | Competitor | Event |
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| Gold | Marcel Fischer | Fencing, men's epee individual |
| Silver | Franco Marvulli, Bruno Risi | Cycling, men's Madison |
| Bronze | Karin Thürig | Cycling, women's individual road time trial |
| Bronze | Sven Riederer | Triathlon, men's competition |
| Bronze | Patrick Heuscher, Stefan Kobel | Volleyball, men's beach volleball |
[edit] Results by event
[edit] Athletics
Men's 400 metre Hurdles:
- Cedric El Idrissi – Round 1, 49.44 s (did not advance)
Men's 800 metres:
- Andre Bucher – Round 1, 1:47.3 (did not advance)
Women's 800 metres:
- Anita Bragger – Round 1: 2:04.00
Men's 5000 metres:
- Christian Belz – Round 1, 13:29.59 (did not advance)
Men's Marathon:
- Viktor Rothlin – DNF
Women's Marathon:
- Marie Polli – 1:37:53 (39th place)
Women's High Jump:
- Corinne Muller – Round 1: 1.89 metres
Women's Pole Vault:
- Nadine Rohr – Round 1: 4.15 metres
Men's Hammer Throw:
- Patric Suter – Round 1, 73.54 metres (did not advance)
[edit] Canoeing
Men's K1 500 metres:
- Simon Faeh – semifinal, 15th place
Men's K1 1000 metres:
- Simon Faeh – semifinal, 17th place
Men's C1 slalom:
- Ronnie Duerrenmatt – semifinal, 11th place
Men's K1 slalom:
- Michael Kurt – semifinal, 20th place
Women's K1 slalom:
- Nagwa el Desouki – final, 6th place
[edit] Cycling
[edit] Road cycling
Men's Individual Road Race:
- Markus Zberg – 12th place, 5:41:56
- Martin Elmiger – 29th place, 5:41:56
- Fabian Cancellara – did not finish
- Gregory Rast – did not finish
- Rubens Bertogliati – did not finish
Women's Individual Road Race:
- Priska Doppmann – 18th place, 3:25:42
- Barbara Heeb – 28th place, 3:25:42
- Nicole Brändli – 38th place, 3:28:39
Men's Time Trial:
- Fabian Cancellara – 10th place, 59:42.38
- Rubens Bertogliati – 26th place, 1:02:16.56
Women's Time Trial:
- Karin Thürig – Bronze Medal, 31:54.89
- Priska Doppmann – 9th place, 32:40.47
[edit] Track cycling
Women's Individual Pursuit:
- Karin Thürig – first round, 5th place
Men's Madison:
- Franco Marvulli and Bruno Risi – Silver Medal, 15 points
[edit] Mountain biking
Men's Cross Country:
- Ralph Naef – 6th place, 2:19:15
- Thomas Frischknecht – 7th place, 2:19:39
- Christoph Sauser – did not finish
Women's Cross Country:
- Katrin Leumann – 19th place, 2:16:07
- Barbara Blatter – did not finish
[edit] Diving
Men's 10 metre Platform:
- Jean Romain Delaloye – preliminary, 31st place
[edit] Equestrian
Because only three horse and rider pairs from a single nation could advance to the final rounds in the individual jumping event, Steve Guerdat did not advance and received a final ranking below all those pairs that did advance despite having performed better in the qualifier rounds than many who moved on to the final.
Individual Dressage Competition:
- Silvia Ikle riding Salieri CH – second round, 18th place
- Christian Plaege riding Regent – first round, 30th place
- Daniel Ramseier riding Palladio – first round, 45th place
- Jasmien Sanche-Burger riding Mr G de Lully – withdrew
Team Dressage Competition:
- Ikle, Plaege, Ramseier, and Sanche-Burger – 10th place, 65.653%
Individual Eventing Competition:
- Jennifer Eicher riding Agent Mulder – third round, 33rd place
- Marisa Cortesi riding Peppermint III – third round, 65th place
Individual Jumping Competition:
- Christina Liebherr riding No Mercy – final round B, 14th place
- Fabio Crotta riding Mme Pompadour M – final round A, 36th place
- Markus Fuchs riding Tinka's Boy – final round A, 46th place
- Steve Guerdat riding Olympic – qualifier, 52nd place (41st after round)
Team Jumping Competition:
- Crotta, Fuchs, Guerdat, and Liebherr – final, 5th place
[edit] Fencing
Men's Épée Individual Competition:
- Marcel Fischer – Gold Medal
[edit] Gymnastics
Men's Artistic Competition:
- Andreas Schweizer – advanced in two exercises
- Rings – 8th place
- All-around – 24th place
- Christoph Schaerer – did not advance in any exercise
Women's Artistic Competition:
- Melanie Marti – did not advance in any exercise
Men's Trampoline Competition:
- Ludovic Martin – 9th place
[edit] Judo
Men's 81 kg:
- Sergei Aschwanden – defeated in round of 32
Women's 57 kg:
- Lena Goeldi – defeated in quarterfinals; repechage round of 16
[edit] Modern Pentathlon
Men's Competition:
- Niklaus Bruenisholz – 14th place
[edit] Tennis
Men's Singles Competition:
- Roger Federer – second round (lost to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic)
Men's Doubles competition:
- Yves Allegro and Roger Federer – second round (lost to Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes of India)
[edit] Triathlon
Switzerland, having won gold and bronze medals in the first Olympic triathlon, returned to the second in 2004 with five triathletes. They gathered another bronze medal as well as an eighth place finish.
Women's Competition:
- Brigitte McMahon – 2:07:07.73 (10th place)
- Nicola Spirig – 2:08:44.46 (19th place)
Men's Competition:
- Sven Riederer – 1:51:33.26 (Bronze Medal)
- Olivier Marceau – 1:52:44.36 (8th place)
- Reto Hug – 2:01:40.43 (40th place)
[edit] Volleyball
Men's Beach Competition:
- Stefan Kobel and Patrick Heuscher – bronze medal
- Prelims: 3-0
- Round of 16: Won 2-0 against Miguel Maia and Joao Brenha, Portugal
- Quarterfinal: Won 2-0 against Daxton Holdren and Stein Metzger, United States
- Semifinal: Defeated 2-1 by Ricardo Alex Santos and Emanuel Rego, Brazil
- Bronze medal game: Won 2-1 against Julien Prosser and Mark Williams, Australia
- Paul Laciga and Martin Laciga
- Prelims: 2-1
- Round of 16: Won 2-1 against Benjamin Insfran and Henrique Araujo Marcio, Brazil
- Quarterfinal: Defeated 2-0 by Ricardo Alex Santos and Emanuel Rego, Brazil
Women's Beach Competition:
- Nicole Schnyder and Simone Kuhn
- Prelims: 0-3
- Round of 16: Did not qualify
[edit] Officials
- President: Walter Kägi
- Secretary General: Martin Rutishauser
