Switzerland competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 186 competitors, 178 men and 8 women, took part in 98 events in 19 sports.
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Date Shooting Men's 300 metre free rifle, three positions Equestrian Individual dressage Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar Gymnastics Men's parallel bars Gymnastics Men's rings Athletics Men's 50 kilometres walk Wrestling Men's freestyle light heavyweight Shooting Men's 50 metre pistol Fencing Men's épée Josef Kalt Rowing Men's coxless pair André MoccandRudolf ReichlingErich SchrieverPeter Stebler Rowing Men's coxed four Gymnastics Men's artistic individual all-around Christian KipferWalter LehmannRobert LucyMichael ReuschJosef StalderEmil StuderMelchior Thalmann Gymnastics Men's artistic team all-around Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar Gymnastics Men's rings Wrestling Men's freestyle featherweight Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight Athletics Men's 10 kilometres walk Gymnastics Men's parallel bars Gymnastics Men's parallel bars
Athletics
Basketball
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Eleven cyclists, all male, represented Switzerland in 1948.
Individual road race Jakob Schenk Jean Brun Walter Reiser Giovanni Rossi
Team road race Jakob Schenk Jean Brun Walter Reiser Giovanni Rossi
Sprint Jean Roth
Time trial Hans Flückiger
Tandem Jean Roth Max Aeberli
Team pursuit Walter Bucher Gaston Gerosa Eugen Kamber Hans Pfenninger
Diving
Men AthleteEventFinalPointsRankErnst Strupler3 m springboard80.0925Willy Rist10 m platform81.7823Ernst Strupler77.6725
Equestrian
Fencing
19 fencers, 16 men and 3 women, represented Switzerland in 1948.
Men's foil Corrado Schlaepfer Walo Hörning Jean Rubli
Men's team foil Gottfried von Meiss, Roger Stirn, Walo Hörning, Corrado Schlaepfer, Jean Rubli
Men's épée Oswald Zappelli Robert Lips Rodolphe Spillmann
Men's team épée Fernand Thiébaud, Robert Lips, Jean Hauert, Oswald Zappelli, Otto Rüfenacht, Marc Chamay
Men's sabre Walter Widemann Otto Greter Alphonse Ruckstuhl
Men's team sabre Roland Turian, Alphonse Ruckstuhl, Otto Greter, Walter Widemann
Women's foil Anna Klüpfel Hedwig Rieder Victoria Hagemann
Gymnastics
Hockey
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Switzerland in 1948.
Bruno Riem Franz Hegner Werner Schmid
Rowing
Switzerland had 19 male rowers participate in five out of seven rowing events in 1948.
Men's single sculls Hansjakob Keller
Men's double sculls Maurice Gueissaz Maurice Matthey
Men's coxless pair Hans Kalt Josef Kalt
Men's coxed four Rudolf Reichling Erich Schriever Émile Knecht Peter Stebler André Moccand (cox)
Men's eight Otto Burri Fredy Schultheiss Franz Starkl Hans Schultheiss Arnold Amstutz Moritz Grand Peter Gübeli Eugen Vollmar Otto Vonlaufen (cox)
Sailing
Shooting
Seven shooters represented Switzerland in 1948. Emil Grünig won gold in the 300 metre rifle and Rudolf Schnyder won silver in the 50 metre pistol.
25 metre pistol Rudolf Schnyder Walter Lienhard
50 metre pistol Rudolf Schnyder Beat Rhyner Heinz Ambühl
300 metre rifle Emil Grünig Otto Horber Mario Ciocco
50 metre rifle Otto Horber Emil Grünig Mario Ciocco
Swimming
Men AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankWalter Schneider100 m freestyle 1:05.1 8* Did not advance400 m freestyle 5:25.5 35 Did not advanceHans Blumer100 m backstroke 1:18.5 6* Did not advanceWalter Kunz200 m breaststroke 2:57.6 23 Did not advanceHans Widmer 2:56.7 21 Did not advanceNicolas Wildhaber 2:59.2 24 Did not advance *Ranks given are within the heat.
Women AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMarianne Erismann100 m freestyle 1:19.9 34 Did not advanceDoris Gontersweiler-Vetterli100 m backstroke 1:26.2 22 Did not advanceLiselotte Kobi200 m breaststroke 3:16.2 6 q* 3:13.9 7* Did not advance *Ranks given are within the heat.
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Art competitions
References
External links Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database