Switzerland at the 1936 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	SUI
Nocname:	Swiss Olympic Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1936
Website:
Location:	Berlin
Competitors:	190 (184 men and 6 women)
Sports:	21
Flagbearer:	Paul Martin^[1]
Rank:	16
Gold:	1
Silver:	9
Bronze:	5
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

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.^[2]

Medalists

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

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics. 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

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1936 Summer Olympics. 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

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Three male pentathletes represented Switzerland in 1936.

• Karl Wyss
• Willy Grundbacher
• Hans Baumann

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Switzerland had 16 rowers participate in seven out of seven rowing events in 1936.^[3]

Men's single sculls

• Ernst Rufli

Men's double sculls

• Kurt Haas
• Eugen Studach

Men's coxless pair

• Wilhelm Klopfer
• Karl Müller

Men's coxed pair

• Georges Gschwind
• Hans Appenzeller
• Rolf Spring (cox)

Men's coxless four

• Hermann Betschart
• Hans Homberger
• Alex Homberger
• Karl Schmid

Men's coxed four

• Hermann Betschart
• Hans Homberger
• Alex Homberger
• Karl Schmid
• Rolf Spring (cox)

Men's eight

• Werner Schweizer
• Fritz Feldmann
• Rudolf Homberger
• Oskar Neuenschwander
• Hermann Betschart
• Hans Homberger
• Alex Homberger
• Karl Schmid
• Rolf Spring (cox)

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Art competitions

See main article: Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flagbearers for Switzerland . olympedia.org . . 17 December 2023.
2. Web site: Switzerland at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417041855/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/SUI/summer/1936/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2010-06-06 . sports-reference.com.
3. Switzerland Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417090814/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/SUI/summer/1936/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 9 May 2018.