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Switzerland at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Medals

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Switzerland	1	1	3	5

Results by event

Athletics

Men's 400 metre hurdles:

• Cedric El Idrissi - Round 1, 49.44 s (did not advance)

Men's 800 metres:

• Andre Bucher - Round 1, 1:47.3 (did not advance)

Women's 800 metres:

• Anita Bragger - Round 1: 2:04.00

Men's 5000 metres:

• Christian Belz - Round 1, 13:29.59 (did not advance)

Men's marathon:

• Viktor Rothlin - DNF

Women's marathon:

• Marie Polli - 1:37:53 (39th place)

Women's high jump:

• Corinne Muller - Round 1: 1.89 metres

Women's pole vault:

• Nadine Rohr - Round 1: 4.15 metres

Men's hammer:

• Patric Suter - Round 1, 73.54 metres (did not advance)

Fencing

Men's épée individual:

• Marcel Fischer - gold medal

Triathlon

Switzerland, which had won gold and bronze medals in the first Olympic triathlon, returned to the second in 2004 with five triathletes. They gather another bronze medal as well as an eight place finish.

Women's:

• Brigitte McMahon Huber - 2:07:07.73 (10th place)
• Nicola Spirig - 2:08:44.46 (19th place)

Men's:

• Sven Riederer - 1:51:33.26 (bronze medal)
• Olivier Marceau - 1:52:44.36 (8th place)
• Reto Hug - 2:01:40.43 (40th place)

Volleyball

Men's beach:

• Stefan Kobel and Patrick Heuscher - bronze medal
  • Prelims: 3-0
  • Round of 16: Won 2-0 against Miguel Maia and Joao Brenha , Portugal
  • Quarterfinal: Won 2-0 against Daxton Holdren and Stein Metzger , United States
  • Semifinal: Defeated 2-1 by Ricardo Alex Santos and Emanuel Rego , Brazil
  • Bronze medal game: Won 2-1 against Julien Prosser and Mark Williams, Australia
• Paul Laciga and Martin Laciga
  • Prelims: 2-1
  • Round of 16: Won 2-1 against Benjamin Insfran and Henrique Araujo Marcio , Brazil
  • Quarterfinal: Defeated 2-0 by Ricardo Alex Santos and Emanuel Rego , Brazil

Women's beach:

• Nicole Schnyder and Simone Kuhn
  • Prelims: 0-3
  • Round of 16: Did not qualify

Officials

• President: Walter Kägi
• Secretary General: Martin Rutishauser