Switzerland at the 1972 Winter Olympics
# Switzerland at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Switzerland competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| - | - | - | - |
| Gold | Bernhard Russi | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
| Gold | Marie-Theres Nadig | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
| Gold | Marie-Theres Nadig | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
| Gold | Jean Wicki Hans Leutenegger Werner Camichel Edy Hubacher | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| Silver | Roland Collombin | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
| Silver | Edmund Bruggmann | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
| Silver | Walter Steiner | Ski jumping | Men's large hill (90m) |
| Bronze | Werner Mattle | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
| Bronze | Jean Wicki Edy Hubacher | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Bronze | Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser | Cross-country skiing | Men's relay |

## Alpine skiing

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Walter Tresch | Downhill | | | | | 1:53.19 | 6 |
| Andreas Sprecher | Downhill | | | | | 1:53.11 | 4 |
| Roland Collombin | Downhill | | | | | 1:52.07 | |
| Bernhard Russi | Downhill | | | | | 1:51.43 | |
| Walter Tresch | Giant Slalom | 1:35.86 | 24 | 1:38.89 | 8 | 3:14.75 | 14 |
| Werner Mattle | Giant Slalom | 1:33.44 | 11 | 1:37.55 | 3 | 3:10.99 | |
| Edmund Bruggmann | Giant Slalom | 1:33.43 | 10 | 1:37.32 | 1 | 3:10.75 | |
| Adolf Rösti | Giant Slalom | 1:33.27 | 7 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Classification | Classification | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | 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 | bye | 57.49 | 12 | 54.54 | 7 | 1:52.03 | 8 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Silvia Stump | Downhill | | | | | 1:40.92 | 18 |
| Marianne Hefti | Downhill | | | | | 1:40.38 | 12 |
| Bernadette Zurbriggen | Downhill | | | | | 1:39.49 | 7 |
| Marie-Theres Nadig | Downhill | | | | | 1:36.68 | |
| Rita Good | Giant Slalom | | | | | DSQ | – |
| Silvia Stump | Giant Slalom | | | | | DNF | – |
| Bernadette Zurbriggen | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:34.17 | 18 |
| Marie-Theres Nadig | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:29.90 | |
| Rita Good | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Bernadette Zurbriggen | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Marie-Theres Nadig | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Silvia Stump | Slalom | 49.19 | 16 | DNF | – | DNF | – |

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | 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

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Hansueli Kreuzer | 48:55.37 | 34 |
| 15 km | Alois Kälin | 46:50.31 | 17 |
| 15 km | Albert Giger | 46:38.36 | 14 |
| 15 km | Eduard Hauser | 46:30.53 | 11 |
| 30 km | Werner Geeser | 1'46:20.36 | 41 |
| 30 km | Alfred Kälin | 1'41:35.34 | 17 |
| 30 km | Eduard Hauser | 1'40:14.98 | 14 |
| 30 km | Alois Kälin | 1'38:40.72 | 7 |
| 50 km | Giuseppe Dermon | 2'56:24.21 | 26 |
| 50 km | Louis Jäggi | 2'53:00.78 | 23 |
| 50 km | Ulrich Wenger | 2'49:35.35 | 14 |
| 50 km | Werner Geeser | 2'44:34.13 | 6 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| - | - | - |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser | 2'07:00.06 | |

## Figure skating

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Charlotte Walter | 7 | 13 | 2467.3 | 86 | 9 |

## Ice hockey

### First round

Winners (in bold) entered the medal round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th–11th places.

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| - | - | - |
| United States | 5–3 | Switzerland |

### Consolation round

Teams that lost their games in the qualification round played in this group.

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | West Germany | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 6 |
| 8 | Norway | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 6 |
| 9 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 5 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 2 |
| 11 | Yugoslavia | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 1 |

* West Germany 5-0 Switzerland
* Japan 3-3 Switzerland
* Switzerland 3-3 Yugoslavia
* Norway 5-3 Switzerland
* Contestants Gérard Rigolet Alfio Molina Marcel Squaldo Charles Henzen Gaston Furrer René Huguenin Peter Aeschlimann René Berra Jacques Pousaz Heini Jenni Hans Keller Michel Türler Paul Probst Gérard Dubi Francis Reinhard Anton Neininger Guy Dubois Peter Lehmann

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Josef Zehnder | Normal hill | 76.0 | 105.8 | 72.0 | 97.9 | 203.7 | 28 |
| Hans Schmid | Normal hill | 76.5 | 106.6 | 73.5 | 102.3 | 208.9 | 22 |
| Ernst von Grünigen | Normal hill | 78.0 | 109.5 | 74.5 | 102.9 | 212.4 | 16 |
| Walter Steiner | Normal hill | 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 | Large hill | 92.5 | 97.0 | 84.0 | 84.1 | 181.1 | 22 |
| Walter Steiner | Large hill | 94.0 | 101.6 | 103.0 | 118.2 | 219.8 | |
| Hans Schmid | Large hill | 94.5 | 101.8 | 89.0 (fall) | 54.6 | 156.4 | 42 |
