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

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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