Switzerland at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Switzerland at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  SUI
NOC Swiss Olympic Association
Website www.swissolympic.ch (German)
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Competitors 99 (59 men, 40 women) in 18 sports
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.

Contents

[edit] Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Marcel Fischer Fencing Men's individual Épée
 Silver Franco Marvulli
Bruno Risi		 Cycling Men's Madison
 Bronze Karin Thürig Cycling Women's Time Trial
 Bronze Sven Riederer Triathlon Men's Individual
 Bronze Patrick Heuscher
Stefan Kobel		 Volleyball Men's Beach Volleyball

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Switzerland did not qualify a single athlete for an Athletics final in Athens, including 2001 World Champion Andre Bucher. In the 400 metre hurdles, El Idrissi was the fastest runner not to be advanced to the semi-finals, and was Switzerland's best performer.

Men's 800 metres:

  • Andre Bucher
    • Round 1: 1:47.34 (3rd in heat 8, did not advance, 38th overall)

Men's 5000 metres:

  • Christian Belz
    • Round 1, 13:29.59 (12th in heat 1, did not advance, 22nd overall)

Men's Marathon:

Rothlin pulled out between the 30 and 35 km checkpoints.

Men's 400 metre Hurdles:

Men's Hammer Throw:

  • Patric Suter
    • Qualification: 73.54 m (9th in Group A, did not advance, 23rd overall)

Women's 800 metres:

  • Anita Bragger
    • Round 1: 2:04.00 (4th in heat 6, did not advance, 31st overall)

Women's High Jump:

  • Corinne Muller
    • Qualification: 1.89 m (T-10th in Group A, did not advance, T-23rd overall)

Women's Pole Vault:

  • Nadine Rohr
    • Qualification: 4.15 m (T-13th in Group B, did not advance, T-24th overall)

Women's 20 km Walk:

[edit] Canoeing

[edit] Flatwater

Men's K1 500 metres:

  • Simon Faeh
    • Heat: 1:42.415 (7th in heat 3, advanced to semifinal)
    • Semifinal: 1:41.039 (5th in semifinal 2, did not advance, 15th overall)

Men's K1 1000 metres:

  • Simon Faeh
    • Heat: 3:41.392 (6th in heat 2, advanced to semifinal)
    • Semifinal: 3:37.569 (8th in semifinal 1, 17th overall)

[edit] Slalom

Michael Kurt was the leader through the first two runs in the Men's K1, but couldn't maintain that form into the semifinal, and ended up making the surprise drop from first to last. el Desouki made the final, but was a full 7 seconds out of the medal spots.

Men's C1:

  • Ronnie Duerrenmatt
    • Qualification: 206.46 (Run 1: 103.91, 8th overall, Run 2: 102.55, 6th overall, 8th overall, Qualified)
    • Semifinal: 102.52 (11th overall, did not advance)

Men's K1:

  • Michael Kurt
    • Qualification: 186.79 (Run 1: 94.30, 4th overall, Run 2: 92.49, 1st overall, 1st overall, Qualified)
    • Semifinal: 103.20 (20th overall, did not advance)

Women's K1:

  • Nagwa el Desouki
    • Qualification: 228.65 (Run 1: 118.38, 12th overall, Run 2: 110.27, 5th overall, 10th overall, Qualified)
    • Semifinal: 113.24 (9th overall, Qualified)
    • Final: 111.80 (Total: 225.04, 6th overall)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Mountain biking

Switzerland had a strong showing in the men's race, but neither Naef nor 1996 Olympics silver medalist Thomas Frischknecht managed to get on the podium.

Men's Cross Country:

Sauser abandoned the race on lap 3, after finishing lap 2 in 7th place.

Women's Cross Country:

Blatter abandoned on lap 2, after finishing lap one in 6th place.

[edit] Road cycling

Two Swiss national time trial champions were the main medal threats in the road cycling races, and while Karin Thürig managed to win bronze, just as she had at the 2002 World Championships, Fabian Cancellara, who had won the prologue of the 2004 Tour de France and worn the yellow jersey could only finish 10th.

Men's Road Race:

Cancellara and Rast pulled out of the race between laps 11 and 12, while Bertogliati had already pulled out one lap earlier.

Men's Time Trial:

Women's Road Race:

Women's Time Trial:

  • Karin Thürig
    • 31:54.89 (3rd overall, 0:44.36 behind) (Bronze Medal)
  • Priska Doppmann
    • 32:40.47 (9th overall, 1:28.94 behind)

[edit] Track cycling

Road time trial bronze medalist Karin Thürig lost to her Dutch opponent in the first knockout round in the individual pursuit, but the real success of the track team came from 2003 Madison World Champions Marvulli and Risi, who won each of the last three sprints of the race to pull themselves from 7th to a silver medal.

Men's Madison:

Women's Individual Pursuit:

[edit] Diving

Men's 10 metre Platform:

[edit] Equestrian

Only one Swiss pairing made a final, Christina Liebherr riding No Mercy, finishing fifth.

Individual Dressage:

  • Silvia Ikle riding Salieri CH
    • First Qualifier: 67.042 (28th overall, Qualified)
    • Second Qualifier: 71.160 (12th overall, 69.101 average, 18th overall, did not advance)

Team Dressage:

Team scores were calculated from the first qualifier session.

Individual Eventing:

  • Marisa Cortesi riding Peppermint III
    • Dressage: 48.40 (26th overall)
    • Cross-country: 111.00 (Total: 159.40, 68th overall)
    • Jumping Qualifier: 12.00 (Total: 171.40, 65th overall, did not advance)
  • Jennifer Eicher riding Agent Mulder
    • Dressage: 65.00 (57th overall)
    • Cross-country: 0.00 (Total: 65.00, T-33rd overall)
    • Jumping Qualifier: 12.00 (Total: 77.00, 33rd overall, did not advance)

Individual Jumping:

  • Christina Liebherr riding No Mercy
    • First Qualifier: 9 penalties (T-54th overall)
    • Second Qualifier: 0 penalties (Total: 9 penalties, T-23rd overall)
    • Third Qualifier: 8 penalties (Total: 17 penalties, T-21st overall, Qualified)
    • Final Round A: 8 penalties (T-12th overall, Qualified)
    • Final Round B: 9 penalties (Total: 17 penalties, 14th overall)
  • Fabio Crotta riding Mme Pompadour M
    • First Qualifier: 5 penalties (T-31st overall)
    • Second Qualifier: 8 penalties (Total: 13 penalties, T-33rd overall)
    • Third Qualifier: 4 penalties (Total: 17 penalties, T-21st overall, Qualified)
    • Final Round A: 16 penalties (T-36th overall, did not advance)
  • Markus Fuchs riding Tinka's Boy
    • First Qualifier: 4 penalties (T-19th overall)
    • Second Qualifier: 4 penalties (Total: 8 penalties, T-16th overall)
    • Third Qualifier: 13 penalties (Total: 21 penalties, T-33rd overall, Qualified)
    • Final Round A: retired
  • Steve Guerdat riding Olympic
    • First Qualifier: 6 penalties (T-42nd overall)
    • Second Qualifier: 20 penalties (T-55th overall)
    • Third Qualifier: 2 penalties (Total: 28 penalties, T-41st overall, did not advance)

Because only three horse and rider pairs from a single nation could advance to the final rounds in the individual jumping event, Guerdat did not advance despite having performed better in the qualifier rounds than many who moved on to the final.

Team Jumping:

Round 1 team scores were calculated from Individual second qualifier scores, round 2 team scores from Individual third qualifier. final, 5th place

[edit] Fencing

World #2 Marcel Fischer marched through the Men's épée, with his only close match a 15-13 win over a Venezuelan in the quarterfinal. In the final, he met, and beat, surprise Chinese finalist Wang Lei, the world #56.

Men's Épée:

[edit] Gymnastics

[edit] Artistic

Andreas Schweizer qualified for both the all-around and rings finals, but had the misfortune of finishing last in both. The other two Swiss gymnasts were not close to qualifying on any apparatus or all-around.

Men's All-Around:

  • Andreas Schweizer
    • Qualification: 55.436 points (27th overall, Qualified)
      • Floor Exercise: 8.787 points (72nd overall, did not advance)
      • Pommel Horse: 9.200 points (51st overall, did not advance)
      • Rings: 9.737 points (8th overall, Qualified)
      • Parallel Bars: 9.387 points (47th overall, did not advance)
      • Horizontal Bar: 9.225 points (57th overall, did not advance)
      • Vault: 9.100 points (one vault only)
    • Final: 54.612 points (Floor Exercise: 8.450 points, Pommel Horse: 9.062 points, Rings: 9.675 points, Vault: 9.225 points, Parallel Bars: 9.450 points, Horizontal Bar: 8.750 points) (24th overall)
  • Christoph Schaerer
    • Qualification: 27.037 points (88th overall, did not advance)
      • Floor Exercise: 8.787 points (72nd overall, did not advance)
      • Pommel Horse: 8.650 points (74th overall, did not advance)
      • Parallel Bars: 8.737 points (69th overall, did not advance)
      • Horizontal Bar: 9.650 points (26th overall, did not advance)

Men's Rings:

Women's All-Around:

  • Melanie Marti
    • Qualification: 27.037 points (88th overall, did not advance)
      • Floor Exercise: 9.050 points (49th overall, did not advance)
      • Uneven Bars: 9.050 points (58th overall, did not advance)
      • Beam: 8.525 points (66th overall, did not advance)
      • Vault: 9.112 points (one vault only)

[edit] Trampoline

Martin failed to qualify for the final by just 0.1 points.

Men's Individual:

[edit] Judo

The two Swiss judokas put up a record of 2-2 at the Games, with both wins coming from lightweight Lena Goeldi. Anschwanden was a bronze medalist at the 2001 Worlds, and the reigning European champion, but lost his opening match in Athens.

Men's 81 kg (Half-Middleweight):

Women's 57 kg (Lightweight):

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual:

  • Niklaus Bruenisholz
    • 5184 points (14th overall)
      • Shooting: 180 points (1096 points)
      • Fencing: 14 W, 17 L (776 points, Total: 1872 points)
      • Swimming: 2:09.12 (1252 points, Total: 3124 points)
      • Riding: 67.88 points (1004 points, Total: 4128 points)
      • Running: 9:46.75 (1056 points, Total: 5184 points)

[edit] Rowing

None of the three Swiss boats managed to make an A final, with the two men's boats both ending up in 8th place in their events.

Men's Single Sculls:

  • Andre Vonarburg
    • Heats: 7:23.43 (2nd in heat 1, advanced to repechage)
    • Repechage: 6:53.48 (1st in repechage 6, advanced to semifinal A/B/C)
    • Semifinal A/B/C: 7:08.52 (4th in semifinal A/B/C 2, advanced to final B)
    • Final B: 6:47.26 (2nd in final B, 8th overall)

Men's Quadruple Sculls:

  • Simon Stuerm, Christian Stoffer, Olivier Gremaud, Florian Stofer
    • Heats: 6:20.67 (5th in heat 1, advanced to repechage)
    • Repechage: 5:47.94 (2nd in repechage, advanced to semifinal A/B)
    • Semifinal A/B: 5:48.74 (6th in semifinal A/B/C 2, advanced to final B)
    • Final B: 6:04.53 (2nd in final B, 8th overall)

Women's Single Sculls:

  • Carolina Luethi
    • Heats: 7:49.88 (2nd in heat 1, advanced to repechage)
    • Repechage: 7:37.90 (3rd in repechage 1, advanced to semifinal C/D)
    • Semifinal C/D: 7:47.33 (4th in semifinal C/D 2, advanced to final C)
    • Final C: 7:44.11 (3rd in final C, 15th overall)

[edit] Sailing

Marazzi and De Maria in the men's Star were in medal position after the first four races, but fouyr straight poor races left them well behind the leading three.

Men's Mistral:

Men's 470:

Men's Star:

Women's Mistral:

Open 49er:

[edit] Shooting

In the men's event, Marcel Buerge shot nearly perfect in the Prone segment of the 3 positions event, but failed to make the final in the Prone event itself by just a single point. He then proceeded to finish last in the 10 metre Air Rifle. In the Women's events, Cornelia Froelich made the final in the Air Pistol event, but missed a shoot-off for a medal by just 0.8 points.

Men's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions:

  • Marcel Buerge
    • Qualification: 1158 points (399 Prone, 379 Standing, 380 Kneeling, 18th overall, did not advance)

Men's 50 metre Rifle Prone:

  • Marcel Buerge
    • Qualification: 594 points (T-9th overall, did not advance)

Men's 10 metre Air Rifle:

  • Marcel Buerge
    • Qualification: 576 points (47th overall, did not advance)

Men's 25 metre Rapid Fire Pistol:

  • Niki Marty
    • Qualification: 577 points (12th overall, did not advance)

Women's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions:

  • Gaby Buehlmann
    • Qualification: 575 points (194 Prone, 189 Standing, 192 Kneeling, T-13th overall, did not advance)

Women's 10 metre Air Rifle:

  • Gaby Buehlmann
    • Qualification: 391 points (T-27th overall, did not advance)

Women's 25 metre Pistol:

  • Monika Rieder
    • Qualification: 568 points (29th overall, did not advance)

Women's 10 metre Air Pistol:

  • Cornelia Froelich
    • Qualification: 384 points (T-6th overall, Qualified)
    • Final: 97.5 points (Total: 481.5 points, 7th overall)
  • Monika Rieder
    • Qualification: 366 points (T-38th overall, did not advance)

[edit] Swimming

Of the 13 Swiss swimmers in Athens, only two managed to make a semifinal, and none made a final. Meichtry's 14th place in the Men's 200m Freestyle was the best result.

Men's 50 metre Freestyle:

  • Karel Novy
    • Heat: 22.51 s (13th overall, Qualified)
    • Semifinal: 22.63 s (16th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Freestyle:

  • Karel Novy
    • Heat: 49.93 s (22nd overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Freestyle:

  • Dominik Meichtry
    • Heat: 1:49.45 s (11th overall, Qualified)
    • Semifinal: 1:50.02 (14th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Breaststroke:

  • Remo Luetolf
    • Heat: 1:03.82 (34th overall, did not advance)

Men's 400 metre Individual Medley:

  • Yves Platel
    • Heat: 4:28.94 (29th overall, did not advance)

Women's 50 metre Freestyle:

Women's 100 metre Freestyle:

Women's 200 metre Freestyle:

Women's 800 metre Freestyle:

Women's 4 x 100 metre Freestyle Relay:

Women's 4 x 200 metre Freestyle Relay:

Women's 4 x 100 metre Medley Relay:

[edit] Synchronized Swimming

Brunner and Schmid qualified fairly handily, and improved their free routine enough in the final to pass the Ukrainian team for 10th overall. Still, they were five-and-a-half points out of medal position.

Women's Duet:

  • Magdalena Brunner and Belinda Schmid
    • Preliminary Technical Routine: 90.667 points (11th overall)
    • Preliminary Free Routine: 92.000 points (Total: 91.334 points, 11th overall, Qualified)
    • Final Free Routine: 92.167 points (Total: 91.418 points, 10th overall)

[edit] Tennis

The Swiss had three seeded entries in the Olympic Tennis tournament, but did not make a single quarterfinal, and only Patty Schnyder made the third round. In one of the biggest upsets in the men's singles, world #1 Roger Federer, in the midst of a season that would see him win three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, was defeated in the second round by 74th ranked Tomáš Berdych. Federer broke Bedrych's serve just twice in three sets, and despite having five break points in the third set, could not produce a break, and was in turn broken by Berdych in the last game of the set to lose. Patty Schnyder may not have earned a medal, but did earn bragging rights over Daniela Hantuchová, as she beat her in both the singles' and doubles' events, though in each case Schnyder was eliminated in the next round.

Men's Singles:

Men's Doubles:

Women's Singles:

Women's Doubles:

[edit] Triathlon

Switzerland, having won gold and bronze medals in the first Olympic triathlon, returned to the Olympics in 2004 with five triathletes. They gathered another bronze medal as well as an eighth place finish. Riederer was 24th after the swim, but broke into the lead on the bike and ran strongly enough to hold onto the bronze medal by eight seconds.

Men's Individual:

Women's Individual:

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Beach

Both Swiss men's pairs managed to qualify for the knockout round, and both had their tournament ended by the eventual gold medalists from Brazil. The Laciga brothers edged past one Brazilian team in the round of 16, but Ricardo and Emanuel handled them easily in the quarterfinals. Kobel and Heuscher gave the Brazilians a much sterner test in the semifinals, winning the second set and coming within three points of winning the third and final set as well. The Swiss then faced a rematch of a pool game in the bronze medal match, against an Australian team. The pool play match had been a close one, with the Swiss coming from behind to win in three sets, and the bronze medal match was similar, as the Australians opened up a lead, only to have Kobel and Heuscher win the last two sets and the medal. This was the first Olympic medal for the Swiss in volleyball.

Men's Competition:

Women's Competition:

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Freestyle

Scherrer lost both his matches, and did not advance from his group.

Men's 96 kg:

[edit] Greco-Roman

Reto Bucher won both his group matches to secure advancement, then prevailed over Khalimov in extra time. He lost to his Finnish opponent in the semifinal, though, and then was taken down by Samourgachev after just over a minute in the bronze medal match to finish fourth.

Men's 74 kg:

[edit] Demonstration Sports

[edit] Wheelchair Racing

Women's Wheelchair 800 metres

[edit] Non-competing athletes

  • Philipp Huber was listed on the entry list for the Men's Decathlon, but did not compete in the final event.

[edit] Officials

  • President: Walter Kägi
  • Secretary General: Martin Rutishauser

[edit] References


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