Switzerland at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Switzerland
games=2004 Summer
competitors=99 (59 men, 40 women)
sports=18
flagbearer=Roger Federer
gold=1
silver=1
bronze=3
total=5
rank=46

Switzerland competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Medalists

Results by event

=Athletics=

Switzerland did not qualify a single athlete for a Athletics final in Athens, including 2001 World Champion Andre Bucher. In the 400 metre hurdles, El Idrissi was the fastest runner not to be advanced to the semi-finals, and was Switzerland's best performer.

Men's 800 metres:
* Andre Bucher
**Round 1: 1:47.34 (3rd in heat 8, did not advance, 38th overall)

Men's 5000 metres:
* Christian Belz
**Round 1, 13:29.59 (12th in heat 1, did not advance, 22nd overall)

Men's Marathon:
* Viktor Rothlin
**Did not finish

Rothlin pulled out between the 30 and 35 km checkpoints.

Men's 400 metre Hurdles:
* Cedric El Idrissi
**Round 1, 49.44 s (6th in heat 4, did not advance, 24th overall)

Men's Hammer Throw:
* Patric Suter
**Qualification: 73.54 m (9th in Group A, did not advance, 23rd overall)

Women's 800 metres:
* Anita Bragger
**Round 1: 2:04.00 (4th in heat 6, did not advance, 31st overall)

Women's High Jump:
* Corinne Muller
**Qualification: 1.89 m (T-10th in Group A, did not advance, T-23rd overall)

Women's Pole Vault:
* Nadine Rohr
**Qualification: 4.15 m (T-13th in Group B, did not advance, T-24th overall)

Women's 20 km Walk:
* Marie Polli
**1:37:53 (39th overall)

=Canoeing=

Flatwater

Men's K1 500 metres:
* Simon Faeh
**Heat: 1:42.415 (7th in heat 3, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 1:41.039 (5th in semifinal 2, did not advance, 15th overall)

Men's K1 1000 metres:
* Simon Faeh
**Heat: 3:41.392 (6th in heat 2, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 3:37.569 (8th in semifinal 1, 17th overall)

lalom

Michael Kurt was the leader through the first two runs in the Men's K1, but couldn't maintain that form into the semifinal, and ended up making the surprise drop from first to last. el Desouki made the final, but was a full 7 seconds out of the medal spots.

Men's C1:
* Ronnie Duerrenmatt
**Qualification: 206.46 (Run 1: 103.91, 8th overall, Run 2: 102.55, 6th overall, 8th overall, "Qualified")
**Semifinal: 102.52 (11th overall, did not advance)

Men's K1:
* Michael Kurt
**Qualification: 186.79 (Run 1: 94.30, 4th overall, Run 2: 92.49, 1st overall, 1st overall, "Qualified")
**Semifinal: 103.20 (20th overall, did not advance)

Women's K1:
* Nagwa el Desouki
**Qualification: 228.65 (Run 1: 118.38, 12th overall, Run 2: 110.27, 5th overall, 10th overall, "Qualified")
**Semifinal: 113.24 (9th overall, "Qualified")
**Final: 111.80 (Total: 225.04, 6th overall)

=Cycling=

Mountain biking

Switzerland had a strong showing in the men's race, but neither Naef nor 1996 Olympics silver medalist Thomas Frischknecht managed to get on the podium.

Men's Cross Country:
* Ralph Naef
**2:19:15 (6th overall, 4:13 behind)
* Thomas Frischknecht
**2:19:39 (7th overall, 4:37 behind)
* Christoph Sauser
**Did not finish

Sauser abandoned the race on lap 3, after finishing lap 2 in 7th place.

Women's Cross Country:
* Katrin Leumann
**2:16:07 (19th overall, 19:16 behind)
* Barbara Blatter
**did not finish

Blatter abandoned on lap 2, after finishing lap one in 6th place.

Road cycling

Two Swiss national time trial champions were the main medal threats in the road cycling races, and while Karin Thürig managed to win bronze, just as she had at the 2002 World Championships, Fabian Cancellara, who had won the prologue of the 2004 Tour de France and worn the yellow jersey could only finish 10th.

Men's Road Race:
* Markus Zberg
**5:41:56 (12th overall, 0:12 behind)
* Martin Elmiger
**5:41:56 (29th overall, 0:12 behind)
* Rubens Bertogliati
**Did not finish
* Fabian Cancellara
**Did not finish
* Gregory Rast
**Did not finish

Cancellara and Rast pulled out of the race between laps 11 and 12, while Bertogliati had already pulled out one lap earlier.

Men's Time Trial:
* Fabian Cancellara
**59:42.38 (10th overall, 2:10.64 behind)
* Rubens Bertogliati
**1:02:16.56 (27th overall, 4:44.82 behind)

Women's Road Race:
* Priska Doppmann
**3:25:42 (18th overall, 1:18 behind)
* Barbara Heeb
**3:25:42 (28th overall, 1:18 behind)
* Nicole Brändli
**3:38:39 (38th overall, 4:15 behind)

Women's Time Trial:
* Karin Thürig
**31:54.89 (3rd overall, 0:44.36 behind) (Bronze Medal)
* Priska Doppmann
**32:40.47 (9th overall, 1:28.94 behind)

Track cycling

Road time trial bronze medalist Karin Thürig lost to her Dutch opponent in the first knockout round in the individual pursuit, but the real success of the track team came from 2003 Madison World Champions Marvulli and Risi, who won each of the last three sprints of the race to pull themselves from 7th to a silver medal.

Men's Madison:
* Franco Marvulli and Bruno Risi
**15 points, 0 laps down (Silver Medal)

Women's Individual Pursuit:
* Karin Thürig
**Qualifying: 3:34.746
**First Round: Lost to Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel of the Netherlands (3:34.831 - 3:28.747, 5th overall)

=Diving=

Men's 10 metre Platform:
* Jean Romain Delaloye
**Preliminary: 326.82 (31st overall, did not advance)

=Equestrian=

Only one Swiss pairing made a final, Christina Liebherr riding No Mercy, finishing fifth.

Individual Dressage:
* Silvia Ikle riding Salieri CH
**First Qualifier: 67.042 (28th overall, "Qualified")
**Second Qualifier: 71.160 (12th overall, 69.101 average, 18th overall, did not advance)

* Christian Plaege riding Regent
**First Qualifier: 66.667 (30th overall, did not advance)

* Daniel Ramseier riding Palladio
**First Qualifier: 63.250 (45th overall, did not advance)

* Jasmien Sanche-Burger riding Mr G de Lully
**First Qualifier: Withdrew

Team Dressage:
* Silvia Ikle riding Salieri CH, Christian Plaege riding Regent, Daniel Ramseier riding Palladio and Jasmien Sanche-Burger riding Mr G de Lully
**65.653 (10th overall)

Team scores were calculated from the first qualifier session.

Individual Eventing:
* Marisa Cortesi riding Peppermint III
**Dressage: 48.40 (26th overall)
**Cross-country: 111.00 (Total: 159.40, 68th overall)
**Jumping Qualifier: 12.00 (Total: 171.40, 65th overall, did not advance)

* Jennifer Eicher riding Agent Mulder
**Dressage: 65.00 (57th overall)
**Cross-country: 0.00 (Total: 65.00, T-33rd overall)
**Jumping Qualifier: 12.00 (Total: 77.00, 33rd overall, did not advance)

Individual Jumping:
* Christina Liebherr riding No Mercy
**First Qualifier: 9 penalties (T-54th overall)
**Second Qualifier: 0 penalties (Total: 9 penalties, T-23rd overall)
**Third Qualifier: 8 penalties (Total: 17 penalties, T-21st overall, "Qualified")
**Final Round A: 8 penalties (T-12th overall, "Qualified")
**Final Round B: 9 penalties (Total: 17 penalties, 14th overall)

* Fabio Crotta riding Mme Pompadour M
**First Qualifier: 5 penalties (T-31st overall)
**Second Qualifier: 8 penalties (Total: 13 penalties, T-33rd overall)
**Third Qualifier: 4 penalties (Total: 17 penalties, T-21st overall, "Qualified")
**Final Round A: 16 penalties (T-36th overall, did not advance)

* Markus Fuchs riding Tinka's Boy
**First Qualifier: 4 penalties (T-19th overall)
**Second Qualifier: 4 penalties (Total: 8 penalties, T-16th overall)
**Third Qualifier: 13 penalties (Total: 21 penalties, T-33rd overall, "Qualified")
**Final Round A: retired

* Steve Guerdat riding Olympic
**First Qualifier: 6 penalties (T-42nd overall)
**Second Qualifier: 20 penalties (T-55th overall)
**Third Qualifier: 2 penalties (Total: 28 penalties, T-41st overall, did not advance)

Because only three horse and rider pairs from a single nation could advance to the final rounds in the individual jumping event, Guerdat did not advance despite having performed better in the qualifier rounds than many who moved on to the final.

Team Jumping:
* Christina Liebherr riding No Mercy, Fabio Crotta riding Mme Pompadour M, Markus Fuchs riding Tinka's Boy and Steve Guerdat riding Olympic
**Round 1: 12 penalties (T-4th overall, "Qualified")
**Round 2: 14 penalties (Total: 26 penalties, 5th overall)

Round 1 team scores were calculated from Individual second qualifier scores, round 2 team scores from Individual third qualifier.final, 5th place

=Fencing=

World #2 Marcel Fischer marched through the Men's épée, with his only close match a 15-13 win over a Venezuelan in the quarterfinal. In the final, he met, and beat, surprise Chinese finalist Wang Lei, the world #56.

Men's Épée:
* (1) Marcel Fischer
**Round of 64: Bye
**Round of 32: Defeated (33) Ahmed Nabil of Egypt (15 - 10)
**Round of 16: Defeated (16) Ivan Kovacs of Hungary (15 - 7)
**Quarterfinal: Defeated (9) Silvio Fernandez of Venezuela (15 - 13)
**Semifinal: Defeated (6) Eric Boisse of France (15 - 9)
**Final: Defeated (27) Wang Lei of China (15 - 9) (Gold Medal)

=Gymnastics=

Artistic

Andreas Schweizer qualified for both the all-around and rings finals, but had the misfortune of finishing last in both. The other two Swiss gymnasts were not close to qualifying on any apparatus or all-around.

Men's All-Around:
* Andreas Schweizer
**Qualification: 55.436 points (27th overall, "Qualified")
***Floor Exercise: 8.787 points (72nd overall, did not advance)
***Pommel Horse: 9.200 points (51st overall, did not advance)
***Rings: 9.737 points (8th overall, "Qualified")
***Parallel Bars: 9.387 points (47th overall, did not advance)
***Horizontal Bar: 9.225 points (57th overall, did not advance)
***Vault: 9.100 points (one vault only)
**Final: 54.612 points (Floor Exercise: 8.450 points, Pommel Horse: 9.062 points, Rings: 9.675 points, Vault: 9.225 points, Parallel Bars: 9.450 points, Horizontal Bar: 8.750 points) (24th overall)

* Christoph Schaerer
**Qualification: 27.037 points (88th overall, did not advance)
***Floor Exercise: 8.787 points (72nd overall, did not advance)
***Pommel Horse: 8.650 points (74th overall, did not advance)
***Parallel Bars: 8.737 points (69th overall, did not advance)
***Horizontal Bar: 9.650 points (26th overall, did not advance)

Men's Rings:
* Andreas Schweizer
**Final: 9.737 points (8th overall)

Women's All-Around:
* Melanie Marti
**Qualification: 27.037 points (88th overall, did not advance)
***Floor Exercise: 9.050 points (49th overall, did not advance)
***Uneven Bars: 9.050 points (58th overall, did not advance)
***Beam: 8.525 points (66th overall, did not advance)
***Vault: 9.112 points (one vault only)

Trampoline

Martin failed to qualify for the final by just 0.1 points.

Men's Individual:
* Ludovic Martin
**Qualification: 66.80 (9th overall, did not advance)

=Judo=

The two Swiss judokas put up a record of 2-2 at the Games, with both wins coming from lightweight Lena Goeldi. Anschwanden was a bronze medalist at the 2001 Worlds, and the reigning European champion, but lost his opening match in Athens.

Men's 81 kg (Half-Middleweight):
* Sergei Aschwanden
**Round of 32: Lost to Ariel Sganga from Argentina (Kuzure-kami-shiho-gatame; ippon - 4:26)

Women's 57 kg (Lightweight):
* Lena Goeldi
**Round of 32: Defeated Maria Pekli from Australia (Ura-nage; ippon - 4:19)
**Round of 16: Defeated Catherine Ewa Ekuta from Nigeria (Sode-tsurikomi-goshi; ippon - 4:06) (advanced to second repechage round)
**Repechage Round 2: Lost to Barbara Harel from France (Fusen-gachi)

=Modern Pentathlon=

Men's Individual:
* Niklaus Bruenisholz
**5184 points (14th overall)
***Shooting: 180 points (1096 points)
***Fencing: 14 W, 17 L (776 points, Total: 1872 points)
***Swimming: 2:09.12 (1252 points, Total: 3124 points)
***Riding: 67.88 points (1004 points, Total: 4128 points)
***Running: 9:46.75 (1056 points, Total: 5184 points)

=Rowing=

None of the three Swiss boats managed to make an A final,with the two men's boats both ending up in 8th place in their events.

Men's Single Sculls:
*Andre Vonarburg
**Heats: 7:23.43 (2nd in heat 1, advanced to repechage)
**Repechage: 6:53.48 (1st in repechage 6, advanced to semifinal A/B/C)
**Semifinal A/B/C: 7:08.52 (4th in semifinal A/B/C 2, advanced to final B)
**Final B: 6:47.26 (2nd in final B, 8th overall)

Men's Quadruple Sculls:
*Simon Stuerm, Christian Stoffer, Olivier Gremaud, Florian Stofer
**Heats: 6:20.67 (5th in heat 1, advanced to repechage)
**Repechage: 5:47.94 (2nd in repechage, advanced to semifinal A/B)
**Semifinal A/B: 5:48.74 (6th in semifinal A/B/C 2, advanced to final B)
**Final B: 6:04.53 (2nd in final B, 8th overall)

Women's Single Sculls:
*Carolina Luethi
**Heats: 7:49.88 (2nd in heat 1, advanced to repechage)
**Repechage: 7:37.90 (3rd in repechage 1, advanced to semifinal C/D)
**Semifinal C/D: 7:47.33 (4th in semifinal C/D 2, advanced to final C)
**Final C: 7:44.11 (3rd in final C, 15th overall)

=Sailing=

Marazzi and De Maria in the men's Star were in medal position after the first four races, but fouyr straight poor races left them well behind the leading three.

Men's Mistral:
*Richard Stauffacher
**222 points (24th overall)

Men's 470:
*Lukas Erni and Simon Bruegger
**163 points (22nd overall)

Men's Star:
*Flavio Marazzi and Enrico De Maria
**70 points (4th overall)

Women's Mistral:
*Anja Kaeser
**121 points (14th overall)

Open 49er:
*Christopher Rast and Christian Steiger
**137 points (12th overall)

=Shooting=

In the men's event, Marcel Buerge shot nearly perfect in the Prone segment of the 3 positions event, but failed to make the final in the Prone event itself by just a single point. He then proceeded to finish last in the 10 metre Air Rifle. In the Women's events, Cornelia Froelich made the final in the Air Pistol event, but missed a shoot-off for a medal by just 0.8 points.

Men's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions:
*Marcel Buerge
**Qualification: 1158 points (399 Prone, 379 Standing, 380 Kneeling, 18th overall, did not advance)

Men's 50 metre Rifle Prone:
*Marcel Buerge
**Qualification: 594 points (T-9th overall, did not advance)

Men's 10 metre Air Rifle:
*Marcel Buerge
**Qualification: 576 points (47th overall, did not advance)

Men's 25 metre Rapid Fire Pistol:
*Niki Marty
**Qualification: 577 points (12th overall, did not advance)

Women's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions:
*Gaby Buehlmann
**Qualification: 575 points (194 Prone, 189 Standing, 192 Kneeling, T-13th overall, did not advance)

Women's 10 metre Air Rifle:
*Gaby Buehlmann
**Qualification: 391 points (T-27th overall, did not advance)

Women's 25 metre Pistol:
*Cornelia Froelich
**Qualification: 557 points (34th overall, did not advance)

*Monika Rieder
**Qualification: 568 points (29th overall, did not advance)

Women's 10 metre Air Pistol:
*Cornelia Froelich
**Qualification: 384 points (T-6th overall, "Qualified")
**Final: 97.5 points (Total: 481.5 points, 7th overall)

*Monika Rieder
**Qualification: 366 points (T-38th overall, did not advance)

=Swimming=

Of the 13 Swiss swimmers in Athens, only two managed to make a semifinal, and none made a final. Meichtry's 14th place in the Men's 200m Freestyle was the best result.

Men's 50 metre Freestyle:
*Karel Novy
**Heat: 22.51 s (13th overall, "Qualified")
**Semifinal: 22.63 s (16th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Freestyle:
*Karel Novy
**Heat: 49.93 s (22nd overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Freestyle:
*Dominik Meichtry
**Heat: 1:49.45 s (11st overall, "Qualified")
**Semifinal: 1:50.02 (14th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Breaststroke:
*Remo Luetolf
**Heat: 1:03.82 (34th overall, did not advance)

Men's 400 metre Individual Medley:
*Yves Platel
**Heat: 4:28.94 (29th overall, did not advance)

Women's 50 metre Freestyle:
*Dominique Diezi
**Heat: did not start

Women's 100 metre Freestyle:
*Dominique Diezi
**Heat: 56.67 s (T-26th overall, did not advance)

Women's 200 metre Freestyle:
*Hanna Miluska
**Heat: 2:03.28 (24th overall, did not advance)

Women's 800 metre Freestyle:
*Flavia Rigamonti
**Heat: 8:38.10 (13th overall, did not advance)

Women's 4 x 100 metre Freestyle Relay:
*Dominique Diezi, Marjorie Sagne and Seraina Pruente, Nicole Zahnd
**Heat: 3:48.61 (15th overall, did not advance)

Women's 4 x 200 metre Freestyle Relay:
*Chantal Strasser, Hanna Miluska, Nicole Zahnd and Flavia Rigamonti
**Heat: 3:48.61 (15th overall, did not advance)

Women's 4 x 100 metre Medley Relay:
*Dominique Diezi, Carmela Schlegel and Carla Stampfli, Nicole Zahnd
**Heat: 4:15.54 (15th overall, did not advance)

=Synchronized Swimming=

Brunner and Schmid qualified fairly handily, and improved their free routine enough in the final to pass the Ukranian team for 10th overall. Still, they were five-and-a-half points out of medal position.

Women's Duet:
*Magdalena Brunner and Belinda Schmid
**Preliminary Technical Routine: 90.667 points (11th overall)
**Preliminary Free Routine: 92.000 points (Total: 91.334 points, 11th overall, "Qualified")
**Final Free Routine: 92.167 points (Total: 91.418 points, 10th overall)

=Tennis=

The Swiss had three seeded entries in the Olympic Tennis tournament, but did not make a single quarterfinal, and only Patty Schnyder made the third round. In one of the biggest upsets in the men's singles, world #1 Roger Federer, in the midst of a season that would see him win three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, was defeated in the second round by 74th ranked Tomas Berdych. Federer broke Bedrych's serve just twice in three sets, and despite having five break points in the third set, could not produce a break, and was in turn broken by Berdych in the last game of the set to lose. Patty Schnyder may not have earned a medal, but did earn bragging rights over Daniela Hantuchova, as she beat her in both the singles' and doubles' events, though in each case Schnyder was eliminated in the next round.

Men's Singles:
* (1) Roger Federer
**First Round: Defeated Nikolay Davydenko of Russia (6 - 3, 5 - 7, 6 - 1)
**Second Round: Lost to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic (6 - 3, 5 - 7, 6 - 1)

Men's Doubles:
* Yves Allegro and Roger Federer
**First Round: Defeated Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland (6 - 3, 6 - 2)
**Second Round: Lost to Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes of India (6 (5) - 7, 3 - 6)

Women's Singles:
* Myriam Casanova
**First Round: Lost to Nicole Pratt of Australia (3 - 6, 5 - 7)

* (10) Patty Schnyder
**First Round: Defeated Petra Mandula of Hungary (6 - 3, 6 - 4)
**Second Round: Defeated Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia (3 - 6, 6 - 1, 6 - 4)
**Third Round: Lost to (5) Svetlana Kuznetsova of Slovakia (3 - 6, 3 - 6)

Women's Doubles:
* (6) Myriam Casanova and Patty Schnyder
**First Round: Defeated Daniela Hantuchova and Janette Husarova of Slovakia (6 - 3, 6 - 4)
**Second Round: Lost to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China (3 - 6, 3 - 6)

=Triathlon=

Switzerland, having won gold and bronze medals in the first Olympic triathlon, returned to the Olympics in 2004 with five triathletes. They gathered another bronze medal as well as an eighth place finish. Riederer was 24th after the swim, but broke into the lead on the bike and ran strongly enough to hold onto the bronze medal by eight seconds.

Men's Individual:
* Sven Riederer
**1:51:33.26 (Bronze Medal)
* Olivier Marceau
** 1:52:44.36 (8th overall)
* Reto Hug
**2:01:40.43 (40th overall)

Women's Individual:
* Brigitte McMahon
** 2:07:07.73 (10th overall)
* Nicola Spirig
**2:08:44.46 (19th overall)

=Volleyball=

Beach

Both Swiss men's pairs managed to qualify for the knockout round, and both had their tournament ended by the eventual gold medalists from Brazil. The Laciga brothers edged past one Brazilian team in the round of 16, but Ricardo and Emanuel handled them easily in the quarterfinals. Kobel and Heuscher gave the Brazilians a much sterner test in the semifinals, winning the second set and coming within three points of winning the third and final set as well. The Swiss then faced a rematch of a pool game in the bronze medal match, against an Australian team. The pool play match had been a close one, with the Swiss coming from behind to win in three sets, and the bronze medal match was similar, as the Australians opened up a lead, only to have Kobel and Heuscher win the last two sets and the medal. This was the first Olympic medal for the Swiss in volleyball.

Men's Competition:
* Stefan Kobel and Patrick Heuscher
**Pool E
***Defeated John Child and Mark Heese of Canada (28 - 26, 21 - 18)
***Defeated Julien Prosser and Mark Williams of Australia (16 - 21, 22 - 20, 15 - 9)
***Defeated Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard of the United States (21 - 16, 13 - 21, 15 - 13)
**1st in pool, "Qualified" (3 W, 0 L, 6 SW, 2 SL)
** Round of 16: Defeated Miguel Maia and João Brenha of Portugal (21 - 18, 21 - 19)
** Quarterfinal: Defeated Daxton Holdren and Stein Metzger of the United States (21 - 16, 21 - 19)
** Semifinal: Lost to Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego of Brazil (14 - 21, 21 - 19, 12 - 15)
** Bronze medal game: Julien Prosser and Mark Williams of Australia (19 - 21, 21 - 17, 15 - 13) (Bronze Medal)

* Paul Laciga and Martin Laciga
**Pool C
***Defeated Robert Nowotny and Peter Gartmayer of Austria (21 - 14, 21 - 14)
***Lost to Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera of Spain (19 - 21, 21 - 17, 9 - 15)
***Defeated Nikolas Berger and Florian Gosch of Austria (21 - 17, 21 - 19)
**2nd in pool, "Qualified" (2 W, 1 L, 5 SW, 2 SL)
** Round of 16: Defeated Benjamin Insfran and Henrique Araujo Marcio of Brazil (21 - 19, 19 - 21, 15 - 12)
** Quarterfinal: Lost to Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego of Brazil (13 - 21, 16 - 21)

Women's Competition:
* Nicole Schnyder and Simone Kuhn
**Pool D
***Lost to Guylaine Dumont and Annie Martin of Canada (16 - 21, 13 - 21)
***Lost to Katherine Maaseide and Susanne Glesnes of Norway (18 - 21, 21 - 17, 13 - 15)
***Lost to Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs of the United States (24 - 22, 17 - 21, 12 - 15)
**4th in pool, did not advance (0 W, 3 L, 2 SW, 6 SL)

=Wrestling=

Freestyle

Scherrer lost both his matches, and did not advance from his group.

Men's 96 kg:
* Rolf Scherrer
**Pool 7
***Lost to Vadym Tasoyev of Ukraine (1 - 6)
***Lost to Khadjimourat Gatsalov of Russia (1 - 3)
**3rd in pool, did not advance (2 TP, 2 CP, 16th overall)

Greco-Roman

Reto Bucher won both his group matches to secure advancement, then prevailed over Khalimov in extra time. He lost to his Finnish opponent in the semifinal, though, and then was taken down by Samourgachev after just over a minute in the bronze medal match to finish fourth.

Men's 74 kg:
* Reto Bucher
**Pool 3
***Defeated Aliaksandr Kikiniou of Belarus (3 - 1)
***Defeated Saiyinjiya of China (6 - 2)
**1st in pool, "Qualified" (9 TP, 6 CP)
**Quarterfinal: Defeated Danil Khalimov of Kazakhstan (3 - 0; 6:23)
**Semifinal: Lost to Marko Yli-Hannuksela of Finland (3 - 0)
**Bronze Medal Match: Lost to Varteres Samourgachev of Russia (Fall; 1:07) (4th overall)

=Demonstration Sports=

=Wheelchair Racing=

Women's Wheelchair 800 metres
*Edith Hunkeler
**1:54.68 (6th overall)

Non-competing Athletes

Philipp Huber was listed on the entry list for the Men's Decathlon, but did not compete in the final event.

Officials

*President: Walter Kägi
*Secretary General: Martin Rutishauser

References

* [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/Results/ Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad]

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