Past victories
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Salt Lake City 2002 Simon Ammann took Olympic gold for Switzerland on both the normal and large hills in the ski jump event. (Keystone) Keystone -
Salt Lake City 2002 Snowboarder Philipp Schoch on his victory run in the parallel giant slalom. (Keystone) Keystone -
Salt Lake City 2002 Joy for cross-country skier Natascia Leonardi Cortesi. The Swiss team, which also included Brigitte Albrecht Loretan, Andrea Huber und Laurence Rochat, took a sensational bronze in the 4x5 kilometres relay. (Keystone) Keystone -
Nagano 1998 The Olympic Games featured snowboard competitions for the first time. Gian Simmen took gold in the halfpipe and Ueli Kestenholz won bronze in the giant slalom. (Keystone) Keystone -
Nagano 1998 Skipper Patrick Hürlimann led his team to victory in the new Olympic discipline of curling. (Keystone) Keystone -
Lillehammer 1994 This jump brought gold in the ski acrobatics competition for Switzerland's Andreas "Sonny" Schönbächler. (Keystone) Keystone -
Lillehammer 1994 By winning the slalom event, Vreni Schneider brought her gold medal tally to three. She was second in the alpine combination and third in the giant slalom. In 1988 in Calgary she had won the slalom and giant slalom events. (Keystone) Keystone -
Albertville 1992 Gustav Weder and his brakeman Donat Acklin struck gold in the two-man bob event. They repeated their victory in Lillehammer in 1994. (Keystone) Keystone -
Calgary 1988 Hippolyt Kempf took gold in the nordic combination individual event and won silver in the team competition. (Keystone) Keystone -
Calgary 1988 Pirmin Zurbriggen (left) was full of smiles at winning gold in the downhill, while Peter Müller was also happy to take silver.(Keystone) Keystone -
Calgary 1988 The Switzerland 1 team with Ekkehard Fasser, Kurt Meier, Marcel Fässler and Werner Stocker on their run to gold in the four-man bob event. (Keystone) Keystone -
Sarajevo 1984 Max Julen on his victory run in the giant slalom. (Kestone) Keystone -
Sarajevo 1984 Jean-Pierre Fournier (right), chief trainer of the Swiss ski team, and trainer Jacques Reymond carry Michaela Figini on their shoulders after her victory in the downhill. (Keystone) swissinfo.ch -
Lake Placid 1980 Erich Schärer and Sepp Benz during their victory run in the two-man bob event. Together with Ulrich Bächli and Rudolf Marti, they also took silver in the four-man event, as they had done in Innsbruck four years earlier. (Keystone) Keystone -
Innsbruck 1976 Heini Hemmi during his victory run in the giant slalom. (Keystone) Keystone -
Sapporo 1972 Walter Steiner surprised everyone by taking silver on the large hill. These games went down as the "golden days of Sapporo" in Swiss sport history. In the nation standings Switzerland took a sensational third place with a tally of ten medals. First was the Soviet Union with 16 medals, followed by East Germany with 14. (Keystone) Keystone -
Sapporo 1972 Bernhard Russi on his way to victory in the downhill. (Keystone) Keystone -
Sapporo 1972 Skier Marie-Theres "Maite" Nadig was not even 18-years-old in this photograph taken in 1972, after she won gold medals in the downhill and giant slalom. (Keystone) Keystone -
Sapporo 1972 Alfred Kälin leads the field in the 4x10 kilometres cross-country relay event. The Swiss team finished third to take the bronze medal. (Keystone) Keystone -
Sapporo 1972 The four-man bob team with Jean Wicki, Hans Leutenegger, Werner Camichel and Edy Hubacher (left to right) were over the moon at winning gold. (Keystone) Keystone
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