Switzerland
30-year old Louis Zutter became Switzerland's first Olympic champion at Athens on 9 April 1896 when he won the Pommeled Horse event ahead of 16 other competitors.
47 Swiss athletes have been Olympic champion before WW2, winning 24 Gold at the Summer Games and a further 2 at the Winter Games (1924 and 1936).
M/F |
Name |
Year |
Gold |
SPORT |
born |
died |
M |
Louis Zutter |
1896 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
2.12.1865 |
10.11.1946 |
M |
Hermann de Pourtalès |
1900 |
1 |
YACHTING |
31.3.1847 |
28.11.1904 |
M |
Friedrich Lüthi |
1900 |
1 |
SHOOTING |
19.12.1850 |
|
M |
Paul Probst |
1900 |
1 |
SHOOTING |
15.5.1869 |
9.9.1945 |
M |
Louis Richardet |
1900 |
2 |
SHOOTING |
17.5.1864 |
14.1.1923 |
M |
Conrad Roderer |
1900 |
2 |
SHOOTING |
12.7.1868 |
28.8.1928 |
M |
Konrad Stäheli |
1900 |
3 |
SHOOTING |
17.12.1866 |
5.11.1931 |
M |
Franz Böckli |
1900 |
1 |
SHOOTING |
15.3.1858 |
14.2.1937 |
M |
Alfred Grütter |
1900 |
1 |
SHOOTING |
31.8.1860 |
30.1.1937 |
M |
Emil Kellenberger |
1900 |
2 |
SHOOTING |
3.4.1864 |
30.11.1943 |
M |
Adolf Spinnler |
1904 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
18.7.1879 |
20.11.1951 |
M |
Robert Roth |
1920 |
1 |
Wrestling - Freestyle |
5.7.1898 |
1959 |
M |
Willy Brüderlin |
1920 |
1 |
ROWING |
20.10.1894 |
|
M |
Paul Rudolf |
1920 |
1 |
ROWING |
6.12.1892 |
|
M |
Max Rudolf |
1920 |
1 |
ROWING |
12.2.1891 |
|
M |
Paul Staub |
1920 |
1 |
ROWING |
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M |
Hans Walter |
1920 |
2 |
ROWING |
9.8.1889 |
14.1.1967 |
M |
Alfred Neveu |
1924 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
24.12.1890 |
20.5.1975 |
M |
Eduard Scherrer |
1924 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
15.4.1890 |
4.7.1972 |
M |
Alfred Schläppi |
1924 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
30.1.1898 |
15.4.1981 |
M |
Heinrich Schläppi |
1924 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
30.4.1905 |
18.2.1958 |
M |
Hermann Gehri |
1924 |
1 |
Wrestling - Freestyle |
26.7.1899 |
25.11.1979 |
M |
Fritz Hagmann |
1924 |
1 |
Wrestling - Freestyle |
28.3.1901 |
14.12.1974 |
M |
Emile Albrecht |
1924 |
1 |
ROWING |
1897 |
|
M |
Edouard Candeveau |
1924 |
1 |
ROWING |
11.2.1898 |
|
M |
Alfred Felber |
1924 |
1 |
ROWING |
19.9.1886 |
1967 |
M |
Emile Lachapelle |
1924 |
2 |
ROWING |
12.9.1905 |
|
M |
Alfred Probst |
1924 |
1 |
ROWING |
1894 |
|
M |
Eugen Sigg-Bächthold |
1924 |
1 |
ROWING |
1898 |
|
M |
August Güttinger |
1924 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
10.7.1892 |
1970 |
M |
Josef Wilhelm |
1924 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
1892 |
1956 |
M |
Alphonse Gemuseus |
1924 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
8.5.1898 |
|
M |
Ernst Kyburz |
1928 |
1 |
Wrestling - Freestyle |
14.8.1898 |
16.10.1983 |
M |
Hans Grieder |
1928 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
12.11.1901 |
1973 |
M |
Hermann Hänggi |
1928 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
15.10.1894 |
21.11.1978 |
M |
Eugen Mack |
1928 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
21.9.1907 |
29.10.1978 |
M |
Georges Miez |
1928 |
4 |
GYMNASTICS |
2.10.1904 |
21.4.1999 |
M |
Otto Pfister |
1928 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
3.9.1900 |
|
M |
Edi Steinemann |
1928 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
2.8.1906 |
28.6.1937 |
M |
Melchior Wezel |
1928 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
16.11.1903 |
|
M |
Hans Bourquin |
1928 |
1 |
ROWING |
1914 |
|
M |
Karl Schöchlin |
1928 |
1 |
ROWING |
13.6.1894 |
7.11.1974 |
M |
Hans Schöchlin |
1928 |
1 |
ROWING |
6.3.1893 |
3.6.1978 |
M |
Joseph Beerli |
1936 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
22.12.1901 |
1967 |
M |
Charles Bouvier |
1936 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
24.8.1898 |
1964 |
M |
Arnold Gartmann |
1936 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
20.11.1904 |
4.6.1980 |
M |
Pierre Musy |
1936 |
1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
25.8.1910 |
21.11.1990 |
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