Switzerland at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Appearance
Switzerland at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | SUI |
NOC | Swiss Olympic Association |
Website | www |
in Sapporo | |
Competitors | 52 (46 men, 6 women) in 6 sports |
Flag bearer | Edmund Bruggmann (alpine skiing) |
Medals Ranked 3rd |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Switzerland competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Medalists
[edit]Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Bernhard Russi | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
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Marie-Theres Nadig | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
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Marie-Theres Nadig | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
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Jean Wicki Hans Leutenegger Werner Camichel Edy Hubacher |
Bobsleigh | Four-man |
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Roland Collombin | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
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Edmund Bruggmann | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
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Walter Steiner | Ski jumping | Men's large hill (90m) |
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Werner Mattle | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
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Jean Wicki Edy Hubacher |
Bobsleigh | Two-man |
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Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser |
Cross-country skiing | Men's relay |
Alpine skiing
[edit]- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Walter Tresch | Downhill | 1:53.19 | 6 | ||||
Andreas Sprecher | 1:53.11 | 4 | |||||
Roland Collombin | 1:52.07 | ![]() | |||||
Bernhard Russi | 1:51.43 | ![]() | |||||
Walter Tresch | Giant Slalom | 1:35.86 | 24 | 1:38.89 | 8 | 3:14.75 | 14 |
Werner Mattle | 1:33.44 | 11 | 1:37.55 | 3 | 3:10.99 | ![]() | |
Edmund Bruggmann | 1:33.43 | 10 | 1:37.32 | 1 | 3:10.75 | ![]() | |
Adolf Rösti | 1:33.27 | 7 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
- Men's slalom
Athlete | Classification | Final | ||||||
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Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Adolf Rösti | 1:44.20 | 1 | 58.08 | 17 | 56.08 | 16 | 1:54.16 | 15 |
Andreas Sprecher | 1:44.60 | 2 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Walter Tresch | 1:43.91 | 2 | 57.90 | 16 | 55.61 | 15 | 1:53.51 | 13 |
Edmund Bruggmann | bye | 57.49 | 12 | 54.54 | 7 | 1:52.03 | 8 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Silvia Stump | Downhill | 1:40.92 | 18 | ||||
Marianne Hefti | 1:40.38 | 12 | |||||
Bernadette Zurbriggen | 1:39.49 | 7 | |||||
Marie-Theres Nadig | 1:36.68 | ![]() | |||||
Rita Good | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | ||||
Silvia Stump | DNF | – | |||||
Bernadette Zurbriggen | 1:34.17 | 18 | |||||
Marie-Theres Nadig | 1:29.90 | ![]() | |||||
Rita Good | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Bernadette Zurbriggen | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – | |
Marie-Theres Nadig | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – | |
Silvia Stump | 49.19 | 16 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Bobsleigh
[edit]Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
SUI-1 | Jean Wicki Edy Hubacher |
Two-man | 1:15.61 | 2 | 1:15.36 | 3 | 1:14.36 | 6 | 1:14.00 | 3 | 4:59.33 | ![]() |
SUI-2 | Hans Candrian Heinz Schenker |
Two-man | 1:15.89 | 4 | 1:16.84 | 11 | 1:14.38 | 8 | 1:14.33 | 5 | 5:01.44 | 7 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
SUI-1 | Jean Wicki Hans Leutenegger Werner Camichel Edy Hubacher |
Four-man | 1:10.71 | 1 | 1:11.44 | 2 | 1:10.21 | 3 | 1:10.71 | 3 | 4:43.07 | ![]() |
SUI-2 | Hans Candrian Erwin Juon Gaudenz Beeli Heinz Schenker |
Four-man | 1:12.36 | 14 | 1:11.89 | 5 | 1:10.09 | 1 | 1:10.22 | 1 | 4:44.56 | 4 |
Cross-country skiing
[edit]- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Hansueli Kreuzer | 48:55.37 | 34 |
Alois Kälin | 46:50.31 | 17 | |
Albert Giger | 46:38.36 | 14 | |
Eduard Hauser | 46:30.53 | 11 | |
30 km | Werner Geeser | 1'46:20.36 | 41 |
Alfred Kälin | 1'41:35.34 | 17 | |
Eduard Hauser | 1'40:14.98 | 14 | |
Alois Kälin | 1'38:40.72 | 7 | |
50 km | Giuseppe Dermon | 2'56:24.21 | 26 |
Louis Jäggi | 2'53:00.78 | 23 | |
Ulrich Wenger | 2'49:35.35 | 14 | |
Werner Geeser | 2'44:34.13 | 6 |
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser |
2'07:00.06 | ![]() |
Figure skating
[edit]- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Charlotte Walter | 7 | 13 | 2467.3 | 86 | 9 |
Ice hockey
[edit]First round
[edit]Winners (in bold) entered the medal round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th–11th places.
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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5–3 | ![]() |
Consolation round
[edit]Teams that lost their games in the qualification round played in this group.
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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7 | ![]() |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 6 |
8 | ![]() |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 6 |
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 5 |
10 | ![]() |
4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 2 |
11 | ![]() |
4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 1 |
- West Germany 5-0 Switzerland
- Japan 3-3 Switzerland
- Switzerland 3-3 Yugoslavia
- Norway 5-3 Switzerland
Ski jumping
[edit]Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Josef Zehnder | Normal hill | 76.0 | 105.8 | 72.0 | 97.9 | 203.7 | 28 |
Hans Schmid | 76.5 | 106.6 | 73.5 | 102.3 | 208.9 | 22 | |
Ernst von Grünigen | 78.0 | 109.5 | 74.5 | 102.9 | 212.4 | 16 | |
Walter Steiner | 79.0 | 110.6 | 76.0 | 106.8 | 217.4 | 14 | |
Ernst von Grünigen | Large hill | 82.0 | 79.8 | 78.0 | 73.2 | 153.0 | 44 |
Josef Zehnder | 92.5 | 97.0 | 84.0 | 84.1 | 181.1 | 22 | |
Walter Steiner | 94.0 | 101.6 | 103.0 | 118.2 | 219.8 | ![]() | |
Hans Schmid | 94.5 | 101.8 | 89.0 (fall) | 54.6 | 156.4 | 42 |