Switzerland at the 2002 Winter Olympics explained

Switzerland competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's normal hill (K90)
			Men's large hill (K120)
			Men's parallel giant slalom
			Two-man
			Women's competition
			Women's giant slalom
			Two-man
			Women's 4 × 5 km relay
			Men's competition
			Men's individual
			Women's halfpipe

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Didier Défago	Downhill			1:41.27	21
Franco Cavegn				1:40.81	15
Didier Cuche				1:40.76	14
Ambrosi Hoffmann				1:40.31	8
Didier Cuche	Super-G			DSQ	-
Tobias Grünenfelder				1:23.43	12
Paul Accola				1:23.33	10
Didier Défago				1:22.27	6
Tobias Grünenfelder	Giant Slalom	1:14.15	DNF	DNF	-
Didier Défago		1:13.74	1:11.80	2:25.54	14
Michael von Grünigen		1:13.27	1:11.80	2:25.07	11
Didier Cuche		1:13.25	1:11.75	2:25.00	10
Michael von Grünigen	Slalom	51.38	53.97	1:45.35	14
Urs Imboden		49.61	52.87	1:42.48	5

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Bruno Kernen	1:40.07	DNF	-	DNF	-
Didier Défago	1:40.04	DNF	-	DNF	-
Paul Accola	1:39.62	48.73	53.91	3:22.26	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Catherine Borghi	Downhill			1:41.88	19
Sylviane Berthod				1:40.67	7
Corinne Rey-Bellet				1:40.54	5
Sylviane Berthod	Super-G			DNF	-
Catherine Borghi				1:15.62	18
Corinne Rey-Bellet				1:14.73	9
Lilian Kummer	Giant Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Fränzi Aufdenblatten		DNF	-	DNF	-
Corinne Rey-Bellet		1:17.92	1:15.51	2:33.43	13
Sonja Nef		1:16.94	1:14.73	2:31.67
Corina Grünenfelder	Slalom	54.13	DNF	DNF	-
Marlies Oester		53.64	DNF	DNF	-
Sonja Nef		53.32	DNF	DNF	-

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Catherine Borghi	1:16.88	47.39	44.52	2:48.79	8
Marlies Oester	1:17.27	45.88	43.46	2:46.61	4

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Matthias Simmen	3	28:22.8	67
	Jean-Marc Chabloz	1	28:08.6	64
	Roland Zwahlen	1	27:43.7	55
12.5 km pursuit 2	Roland Zwahlen	3	37:40.6	47

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 3	Rank
20 km	Matthias Simmen	56:03.0	6	1'02:03.0	78
	Jean-Marc Chabloz	55:59.4	3	58:59.4	61
	Roland Zwahlen	54:10.6	4	58:10.6	58

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SUI-1	Steve Anderhub Christian Reich	Two-man	47.52	1	47.53	2	47.45	2	47.70	4	3:10.20
SUI-2	Martin Annen Beat Hefti	Two-man	47.56	3	47.64	3	47.73	7	47.69	3	3:10.62

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SUI-1	Martin Annen Silvio Schäufelberger Beat Hefti Cédric Grand	Four-man	46.72	4	46.63	2	47.11	3	47.49	4	3:07.95	4
SUI-2	Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Guido Acklin Urs Aeberhard	Four-man	46.71	2	46.93	8	47.33	6	47.62	8	3:08.59	6

Women

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

MenSprint

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit1
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Patrick Mächler	28:12.7	45 Q	26:02.1	40
Reto Burgermeister	27:51.4	39 Q	26:11.7	41

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Reto Burgermeister	38:49.2	9
30 km F	Patrick Rölli	1'16:36.5	39
	Wilhelm Aschwanden	1'16:32.4	38
	Gion-Andrea Bundi	1'16:19.6	34
	Patrick Mächler	1'15:03.4	28
50 km C	Patrick Rölli	2'24:34.4	45
	Reto Burgermeister	2'20:43.3	37
	Wilhelm Aschwanden	2'19:33.9	32

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle4 × 10 km relay

WomenSprint

Pursuit

Athlete	5 km C		5 km F pursuit2
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan	14:30.0	48 Q	13:29.1	29
Laurence Rochat	13:57.1	23 Q	13:13.6	22

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Laurence Rochat	DNF	-
	Natascia Leonardi Cortesi	29:57.5	15
15 km F	Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan	42:54.4	31
	Natascia Leonardi Cortesi	41:56.3	15
30 km C	Laurence Rochat	1'38:24.2	20
	Natascia Leonardi Cortesi	1'35:46.8	10

² Starting delay based on 5 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle4 × 5 km relay

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Kevin Martin	8	1
Norway	Pål Trulsen	7	2
Switzerland	Andreas Schwaller	6	3
Sweden	Peja Lindholm	6	3
Finland	Markku Uusipaavalniemi	5	4
Germany	Sebastian Stock	4	5
Denmark	Ulrik Schmidt	3	6
Great Britain	Hammy McMillan	3	6
United States	Tim Somerville	3	6
France	Dominique Dupont-Roc	0	9

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Medal round

Semi-final

Bronze medal game

Contestants

Women's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Kelley Law	8	1
Switzerland	Luzia Ebnöther	7	2
United States	Kari Erickson	6	3
Great Britain	Rhona Martin	5	4
Germany	Natalie Neßler	5	4
Sweden	Elisabet Gustafson	5	4
Norway	Dordi Nordby	4	5
Japan	Akiko Katoh	2	7
Denmark	Lene Bidstrup	2	7
Russia	Olga Jarkova	1	8

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Medal round

Semi-final

Gold medal game

Contestants

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Ice Dancing

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Christian Stohr	Moguls	28.51	24.03	19	did not advance
Martin Walti	Aerials		160.56	21	did not advance
Christian Kaufmann			214.90	13	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Corinne Bodmer	Moguls	36.05	20.28	26	did not advance
Manuela Müller	Aerials		125.47	20	did not advance
Evelyne Leu			203.16	1 Q		147.31	11

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Preliminary round - group B

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

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Consolation round

11th place match

Contestants David Aebischer Jean-Jacques Aeschlimann Björn Christen Flavien Conne Gian-Marco Crameri Patric Della Rossa Patrick Fischer Martin Gerber Martin Höhener Sandy Jeannin Marcel Jenni Olivier Keller Martin Plüss André Rötheli Ivo Rüthemann Edgar Salis Mathias Seger Martin Steinegger Mark Streit Patrick Sutter Julien Vauclair Reto von Arx

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reto Gilly	46.220	33	45.053	16	45.079	24	44.959	9	3:01.311	24
Stefan Höhener	45.101	17	45.254	23	44.534	7	44.911	7	2:59.800	13

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's sprint

Events:

• large hill ski jumping
• 7.5 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
	Points	Rank
Andreas Hurschler	91.2	38	18:21.9	21
Ronny Heer	103.9	19	18:34.0	29
Andy Hartmann	104.2	18	17:44.7	8
Seppi Hurschler	105.8	15	18:36.0	31

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
	Points	Rank
Ivan Rieder	186.5	43	49:12.0	42
Andreas Hurschler	198.0	39	44:19.4	25
Ronny Heer	222.0	21	44:40.0	29
Andy Hartmann	236.5	9	41:42.3	9

Men's team

Four participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 5 km cross-country skiing

Skeleton

See main article: Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Felix Poletti	51.76	11	52.11	18	1:43.87	16
Gregor Stähli	51.16	4	50.99	1	1:42.15

Women

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualifying jump			Final jump 1			Final jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Sylvain Freiholz	Normal hill	89.0	112.0	15 Q	89.0	113.0	27 Q	91.0	115.0	228.0	25
Andreas Küttel		90.5	114.0	13 Q	90.0	114.0	24 Q	91.0	117.5	231.5	22
Simon Ammann		Pre-qualified			98.0	133.5	1 Q	98.5	135.5	269.0
Marco Steinauer	Large hill	104.5	82.1	35 Q	106.5	87.2	45	did not advance
Sylvain Freiholz		109.5	93.6	27 Q	118.0	110.4	26 Q	110.5	95.4	205.8	27
Andreas Küttel		117.0	109.6	8 Q	125.0	125.0	8 Q	122.0	120.6	245.6	6
Simon Ammann		Pre-qualified			132.5	140.5	1 Q	133.0	140.9	281.4

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Ueli Kestenholz	DNF	-	did not advance
Simon Schoch	38.63	25	did not advance
Philipp Schoch	37.34	15 Q	Alexander Maier W	Mathieu Bozzetto W	Chris Klug W	Richard Richardsson W
Gilles Jaquet	35.69	1 Q	Nicolas Huet L (DSQ)	did not advance

Men's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Marcel Hitz	23.8	23	35.9	9	did not advance
Gian Simmen	34.8	12	33.5	12	did not advance
Therry Brunner	36.0	9	37.7	7	did not advance

Women's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Milena Meisser	DNF	-	did not advance
Daniela Mueli	43.46	20	did not advance
Nadia Livers	43.27	19	did not advance
Steffi von Siebenthal	42.68	13 Q	Isabelle Blanc L	did not advance

Women's halfpipe

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com