Switzerland at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	SUI
Nocname:	Swiss Olympic Association
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1998
Website:
Location:	Nagano
Competitors:	69 (50 men, 19 women)
Sports:	12
Flagbearer:	Guido Acklin (bobsleigh)
Rank:	12
Gold:	2
Silver:	2
Bronze:	3
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Switzerland competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's competition
			Men's halfpipe
			Men's super-G
			Four-man
			Men's giant slalom
			Women's aerials
			Men's giant slalom

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Bruno Kernen	Downhill			DNF	-
Franco Cavegn				1:51.74	14
Didier Cuche				1:50.91	8
Jürg Grünenfelder				1:50.64	4
Paul Accola	Super-G			1:36.87	18
Steve Locher				1:36.62	14
Bruno Kernen				1:36.37	11
Didier Cuche				1:35.43
Urs Kälin	Giant Slalom	1:22.00	1:19.17	2:41.17	12
Steve Locher		1:21.98	1:18.32	2:40.30	6
Paul Accola		1:21.31	1:19.26	2:40.57	7
Michael von Grünigen		1:20.98	1:18.71	2:39.69
Marco Casanova	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Paul Accola		57.56	57.35	1:54.91	18
Michael von Grünigen		57.33	57.63	1:54.96	19
Didier Plaschy		56.67	55.36	1:52.03	12

Men's combined

Athlete	Slalom		Downhill	Total
	Time 1	Time 2	Time	Total time	Rank
Jürg Grünenfelder	DNF	-	-	DNF	-
Bruno Kernen	DNF	-	-	DNF	-
Paul Accola	49.39	DNF	-	DNF	-

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Corinne Rey-Bellet	Downhill			1:32.92	30
Catherine Borghi				1:31.45	22
Heidi Zurbriggen				1:30.25	12
Catherine Borghi	Super-G			1:20.69	34
Corinne Rey-Bellet				1:20.31	31
Heidi Zurbriggen				1:19.22	21
Sonja Nef	Giant Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Catherine Borghi		1:21.90	1:36.52	2:58.42	19
Karin Roten		1:20.91	1:36.05	2:56.96	16
Heidi Zurbriggen		1:20.31	1:33.30	2:53.61	6
Sonja Nef	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Karin Roten		46.64	DNF	DNF	-
Martina Accola		46.37	47.75	1:34.12	7

Women's combined

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SUI-1	Reto Götschi Guido Acklin	Two-man	54.71	3	54.77	12	54.44	7	54.35	4	3:38.27	6
SUI-2	Christian Reich Cédric Grand	Two-man	54.73	4	54.56	4	54.32	5	54.54	7	3:38.15	4

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SUI-1	Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz	Four-man	53.13	8	53.15	2	53.73	4	2:40.01
SUI-2	Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Thomas Handschin Cédric Grand	Four-man	52.88	3	53.47	6	53.93	13	2:40.28	7

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Patrick Mächler	DNF	-
	Wilhelm Aschwanden	31:10.5	63
	Jeremias Wigger	30:33.4	49
	Beat Koch	28:49.6	17
15 km pursuit^1 F	Wilhelm Aschwanden	45:32.8	49
30 km C	Beat Koch	1'46:38.3	53
	Jeremias Wigger	1'39:46.4	16
50 km F	Reto Burgermeister	2'22:28.3	49
	Wilhelm Aschwanden	2'14:18.0	22
	Jeremias Wigger	2'13:50.5	18

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Andrea Senteler	20:07.5	62
	Andrea Huber	19:27.6	45
	Sylvia Honegger	18:29.6	14
	Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan	18:16.5	10
10 km pursuit^2 F	Sylvia Honegger	30:44.3	22
	Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan	29:34.8	10
15 km C	Sylvia Honegger	50:31.9	22
30 km F	Natascia Leonardi Cortesi	1'30:31.8	24
	Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan	1'25:15.0	7

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Group stage

Country	Skip	W	L
		6	1
		5	2
		5	2
		3	4
		3	4
		3	4
		2	5
		1	6

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Medal round

Semi-final

Gold medal game

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Corinne Bodmer	Moguls	34.04	19.93	20	did not advance
Evelyne Leu	Aerials		148.72	15	did not advance
Michèle Rohrbach			161.76	10 Q		129.36	11
Colette Brand			165.07	7 Q		171.83

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
		Points	Rank
Marco Zarucchi	Individual	185.5	43	45:37.9	25
Andy Hartmann		193.0	38	46:18.5	28
Urs Kunz		196.0	32	44:53.2	18
Jean-Yves Cuendet		206.0	21	44:34.6	17

Men's Team

Four participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 5 km cross-country skiing

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Marco Steinauer	Normal hill	66.0	63.5	56	did not advance
Simon Ammann		75.0	83.5	35	did not advance
Sylvain Freiholz		76.0	86.0	30 Q	80.5	96.0	182.0	29
Bruno Reuteler		81.0	96.5	23 Q	84.0	103.5	200.0	18
Sylvain Freiholz	Large hill	106.0	88.8	41	did not advance
Simon Ammann		106.0	89.3	39	did not advance
Marco Steinauer		108.0	93.9	33	did not advance
Bruno Reuteler		115.5	105.9	21 Q	120.5	116.4	222.3	19

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
	Time	Time	Time	Rank
André Grütter	DSQ	-	DSQ	-
Gilles Jaquet	DSQ	-	DSQ	-
Fadri Mosca	DSQ	-	DSQ	-
Ueli Kestenholz	1:00.20	1:03.88	2:04.08

Men's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Patrik Hasler	32.6	24	32.1	23	did not advance
Gian Simmen	34.0	21	39.8	3 QF	85.2
Bertrand Denervaud	37.8	11	35.3	19	did not advance
Fabien Rohrer	38.5	6 QF			78.7	4

Women's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Steffi von Siebenthal	1:21.93	DNF	DNF	-
Renate Keller	1:19.48	1:12.32	2:31.80	18
Cécile Plancherel	1:15.84	1:08.23	2:24.07	11

Women's halfpipe

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com