Switzerland at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Switzerland at the
2004 Summer Paralympics
Switzerland at the; 2004 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	SUI
NPC	Swiss Paralympic Committee
Website	www.swissparalympic.ch
in Athens
Competitors	41 in 8 sports
Medals; Ranked 40th	Gold 2 Silver 6 Bronze 8 Total 16
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Switzerland competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 41 athletes, 27 men and 14 women.^[1] Competitors from Switzerland won 16 medals, including 2 gold, 6 silver and 8 bronze to finish 40th in the medal table.^[2]

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Urs Kolly	Athletics	Men's long jump F44
Gold	Urs Kolly	Athletics	Men's pentathlon P44
Silver	Beat Bosch	Athletics	Men's 100m T52
Silver	Pia Schmid	Athletics	Women's 200m T52
Silver	Manuela Schar	Athletics	Women's 200m T54
Silver	Edith Hunkeler	Athletics	Women's 1500m T54
Silver	Edith Hunkeler	Athletics	Women's 5000m T54
Silver	Franz Weber	Cycling	Men's handcycle road race HC A
Bronze	Beat Bosch	Athletics	Men's 200m T52
Bronze	Marcel Hug	Athletics	Men's 800m T54
Bronze	Marcel Hug	Athletics	Men's 1500m T54
Bronze	Manuela Schar	Athletics	Women's 100m T54
Bronze	Franz Weber	Cycling	Men's handcycle time trial HC A
Bronze	Franz Nietlispach	Cycling	Men's handcycle time trial HC B/C
Bronze	Sara Tretola	Cycling	Women's bicycle time trial LC1-4 & CP 3/4
Bronze	Sandra Kalt Karin Suter-Erath	Wheelchair tennis	Women's doubles

Sports

Archery

Men


Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Robert Lehner	Men's individual W1	603	8	N/A	Antonios (FIN) L 155-160	did not advance

Athletics

Men's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Beat Bosch	T52	100m	N/A				17.69
Beat Bosch	T52	200m	32.32	3 Q	N/A		32.35
Heinz Frei	T53	800m	1:40.40	4 Q	N/A		1:40.11	6
	T54	5000m	10:25.76	8 q	N/A		10:26.64	11
		10000m	21:10.07	7 q	N/A		20:53.95	7
		Marathon	N/A				1:32:04	7
Lukas Hendry	T11	400m	56.36	10	did not advance
Marcel Hug	T54	800m	1:35.60	4 Q	N/A		1:32.66
		1500m	3:08.08	20 Q	3:04.73	3 Q	3:05.48
		5000m	10:29.93	14 Q	N/A		10:25.51	6
Edison Kasumaj	T53	100m	16.87	19	did not advance
Tobias Loetscher	T54	800m	1:41.10	18	did not advance
Tobias Loetscher	T54	1500m	3:04.54	9 q	3:08.64	12	did not advance
Bojan Mitic	T53	100m	16.08	13	did not advance
Bojan Mitic	T53	200m	27.57	10	did not advance
Franz Nietlispach	T54	1500m	3:05.58	14 q	DNF		did not advance
		10000m	21:48.46	16 Q	N/A		20:56.02	9
		Marathon	N/A				DNS
Christoph Sommer	T46	1500m	did not advance				4:08.81	9
Christoph Sommer	T46	5000m	did not advance				15:24.99	6
Marcel Hug Edison Kasumaj Tobias Loetscher Bojan Mitic	T53/54	4 × 100 m relay	54.75	6	did not advance
Heinz Frei Marcel Hug Tobias Loetscher Franz Nietlispach	T53/54	4 × 400 m relay	3:19.23	6	did not advance

Men's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Result	Points	Rank
Lukas Hendry	F11	Long jump	5.84	-	7
Urs Kolly	F44	Long jump	6.68 PR	-
	F44/46	Discus	41.66	833	6
		Javelin	46.87	871	7
		Shot put	12.65	870	9
	P44	Pentathlon	4447 WR

Women's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Simone Buess	T54	200m	34.07	14	did not advance
Sandra Graf	T54	800m	1:56.11	12	did not advance
		1500m	3:36.13	2 Q	N/A		3:30.30	10
		5000m	11:59.94	2 Q	N/A		12:10.50	6
		Marathon	N/A				1:59:09	5
Edith Hunkeler	T54	800m	1:53.61	5 q	N/A		1:52.13	4
		1500m	3:38.21	9 Q	N/A		3:28.48
		5000m	12:19.25	6 Q	N/A		11:59.69
		Marathon	N/A				1:56:21	4
Manuela Schaer	T54	100m	16.72	3 Q	N/A		16.93
Manuela Schaer	T54	200m	30.11	2 Q	N/A		30.24
Pia Schmid	T52	200m	40.42	2 Q	N/A		41.04
Pia Schmid	T52	400m	1:23.15	3 Q	N/A		1:22.61	4

Cycling

Men's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Franz Nietlispach	Men's handcycle road race HC div B/C	1:24:51	5
Franz Nietlispach	Men's handcycle time trial HC div B/C	18:18.92
Markus Rauber	Men's handcycle road race HC div B/C	OVL	10
Markus Rauber	Men's handcycle time trial HC div B/C	18:46.85	6
Ivan Renggli	Men's road race/time trial LC1	DNF
Beat Schwarzenbach	Men's road race/time trial LC3	2:07:19	10
Franz Weber	Men's handcycle road race HC div A	1:05:49
Franz Weber	Men's handcycle time trial HC div A	12:10.70
Raphael Ioset Beat Howald (pilot)	Men's road race/time trial tandem B1-3	-	14

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		1st round		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Ivan Renggli	Men's 1km time trial LC1-4	N/A				1:13.28	16
Ivan Renggli	Men's individual pursuit LC1	5:11.36	5 Q	Vignati (ITA) W 5:05.87	4 q	Triboli (ITA) L 5:08.00	4
Beat Schwarzenbach	Men's 1km time trial LC1-4	N/A				DNS
Beat Schwarzenbach	Men's individual pursuit LC3	4:19.66	9	did not advance
Raphael Ioset Beat Howald (pilot)	Men's 1km time trial tandem B1-3	N/A				1:07.60	9
	Men's individual pursuit tandem B1-3	4:46.13	12	did not advance
	Men's sprint tandem B1-3	DNS		did not advance

Women's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sara Tretola	Women's time trial LC1-4/CP 3/4	28:00.04

Women's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		1st round		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Sara Tretola	Women's 1km time trial LC1-4/CP 3/4	N/A				1:25.50	11

Equestrian

Athlete	Event	Total
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Claudia Straub	Mixed individual championship test grade IV	58.968	15
Claudia Straub	Mixed individual freestyle test grade IV	61.955	15

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Juerg Kohler	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	596	22	did not advance
Otto Koller	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	549	26	did not advance
Otto Koller	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	504	20	did not advance
Patrik Plattner	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	550	23	did not advance
Patrik Plattner	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	503	21	did not advance
Hans Peter Steffen	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1	1084	21	did not advance
Hans Peter Steffen	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	595	33	did not advance
August Wyss	Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1	564	20	did not advance
	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1	1128	8 Q	89.2	1217.2	8
	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	595	33	did not advance
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	579	20	did not advance

Swimming

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Chantal Cavin	S11	50m freestyle	35.15	6 Q	33.92	6
	S11	100m freestyle	1:15.17	2 Q	1:14.97	5
	SB11	100m breaststroke	1:42.38	5 Q	1:42.72	4
Christina Heer	S8	100m freestyle	1:22.01	14	did not advance
		400m freestyle	5:50.49	9	did not advance
		100m backstroke	1:39.16	11	did not advance
Nathalie Suter	S7	50m freestyle	37.01	7 Q	37.18	8
		100m freestyle	1:21.68	8 Q	1:21.42	8
		100m backstroke	1:37.91	8 Q	1:35.73	8
	SB7	100m breaststroke	1:56.33	9	did not advance
Tamara Vaucher	S7	50m freestyle	42.70	15	did not advance
		400m freestyle	7:03.34	14	did not advance
		50m butterfly	49.45	13	did not advance

Table tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Christian Sutter	Men's singles 4	Caci (ITA) W 3-2	Benedetti (FRA) L 2-3	Eid (EGY) W 3-1	2 Q	Choi (KOR) L 0-3	did not advance
Rolf Zumkehr	Men's singles 1	Launonen (FIN) L 2–3	Kang (KOR) L 1–3	Maslup (ARG) W 3–1	3	did not advance
Christian Sutter Rolf Zumkehr	Men's teams 4	France (FRA) L 2-3	Germany (GER) L 0-3	Egypt (EGY) W 3-1	3	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Alice Rast	Women's singles 4	Pape (GER) W 3–2	Pillarova (SVK) L 2–3	Riese (RSA) W 3–1	2 Q	Dolinar (SLO) W 3–1	Weinmann (GER) L 0-3	Pape (GER) L 1-3	4

Wheelchair tennis

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Class	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Martin Erni	Open	Men's singles	Plowman (GBR) L 0–6, 6–2, 6-7	did not advance
Daniel Pellegrina		Men's singles	Gatelli (ITA) L 1–6, 7–5, 0-6	did not advance
Martin Erni Daniel Pellegrina		Men's doubles	N/A	Quintero (USA) / Rydberg (USA) L 0–6, 3-6	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Class	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Sandra Kalt	Open	Women's singles	Korb (USA) W 7–6, 6–2	Young (KOR) W 6–3, 6–2	Gravellier (FRA) L 2–6, 1-6	did not advance
Karin Suter-Erath		Women's singles	Smit (NED) L 2–6, 3-6	did not advance
Sandra Kalt Karin Suter-Erath		Women's doubles	N/A	Ochoa (ESP) / Vidal (ESP) W 6–3, 6-0	Young (KOR) / Myung (KOR) W 6–3, 6-2	Khanthasit (THA) / Techamaneewat (THA) L 5–7, 0-6	Ohmae (JPN) / Yaosa (JPN) W 7–5, 6-3

References

^ "Participation Numbers Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
^ "Medal Standings Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.

[1] "Participation Numbers Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.

[2] "Medal Standings Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.

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v t e Nations at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Cape Verde Central African Republic Ivory Coast Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Kenya Lesotho Libya Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal South Africa Sudan Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zimbabwe
America	Argentina Barbados Bermuda Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Peru Puerto Rico Suriname United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Cambodia China Chinese Taipei Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Macau Malaysia Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia‑Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia‑Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Samoa Tonga

Medallists

Sports

Archery

Men

Athletics

Men's track

Men's field

Women's track

Cycling

Men's road

Men's track

Women's road

Women's track

Equestrian

Shooting

Men

Swimming

Women

Table tennis

Men

Women

Wheelchair tennis

Men

Women

See also

References