Switzerland at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Switzerland at the Olympic Games
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At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
Competitors	190 in 21 sports
Medals Rank: 16	Gold 1	Silver 9	Bronze 5	Total 15
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Switzerland competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 190 competitors, 184 men and 6 women, took part in 98 events in 21 sports.^[1]

Contents 1 Medalists 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Athletics 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Canoeing 6 Cycling 7 Diving 8 Equestrian 9 Fencing 10 Field hockey 11 Gymnastics 12 Handball 13 Modern pentathlon 14 Rowing 15 Sailing 16 Swimming 17 Water polo 18 Weightlifting 19 Wrestling 20 Aeronautics 21 Alpinism 22 Art competitions 23 References 24 External links

Medalists

Gold

• Georges Miez — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises

Silver

• Arthur Tell Schwab — Athletics, Men's 50km 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 Blösch, 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

Athletics

Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Diving

Equestrian

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 Rückstuhl

Men's team sabre

• Charles Glasstetter, Alphonse Rückstuhl, Walter Widemann, Adolf Stocker

Women's foil

• Ingeborg Scheel
• Denise Kramer-Scholer
• Yvonne Bornand

Field hockey

Gymnastics

Handball

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Sailing

Swimming

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Aeronautics

Alpinism

Art competitions

References

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

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