Exhibition Text: Olympiads

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1 Exhibition Text: Olympiads The Games of the XXXI Olympiad, the modern Olympic series which was started in Athens in 1896, will take place in Rio de Janeiro from 5-21 August Because of the two world wars the VI Games, planned for Berlin in 1916, the XII Games to be held in Helsinki in 1940, and the XIII Games scheduled for London in 1944 were cancelled. Our Swiss shooters first took part in the Olympic Games in 1900 in Paris, and won five Gold medals there: three in the individual competitions, won by Konrad Stäheli from St Fiden and Emil Kellenberger from Walzenhausen at 300m, and by Konrad Roderer from St Gallen at 50m; and two in the team matches (won by the 300m team of Emil Kellenberger, Konrad Stäheli, Louis Richardet from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Franz Böckli from Glarus, and Alfred Grütter from Binningen; and by the 50m Free Pistol team of Konrad Roderer, Konrad Stäheli, Louis Richardet, Friedrich Lüthi from Geneva, and Paul Probst from Bern). In the 50m Free Pistol individual match in Paris a Silver medal was also won by Konrad Stäheli and a Bronze by Louis Richardet. 1. Gold Medal from the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. 2. Picture of the three Gold Medal winners in Paris in 1900: Konrad Roderer, Konrad Stäheli and Emil Kellenberger. Again in Antwerp in 1920 two Bronze medals were won by our shooters in the individual matches ( Fritz Kuchen from Winterthur at 300m, and Fritz Zulauf from Altstetten with the pistol at 30m); and three Bronzes in the team events (two won at 300 and 600m by the team of Fritz Kuchen, Albert Tröndle from Zürich, Jakob Reich from Zürich, Arnold Rösli from Winterthur, and Kaspar Widmer from St Gallen; and one 30m pistol medal won by the team of Fritz Kuchen, Fritz Zulauf, Dr Willy Schnyder from Balthal, Kaspar Widmer, and August Wiederkehr from Lichtensteig). 3. Olympic medal from Antwerp in 1920, engraved VII. Olympiade Anvers MCMXX. Motif: twin-horse Roman chariot; on the reverse the goddess of victory awarding laurels to three men. 1

2 4. Fritz Kuchen s diploma for his third place in the Olympic Games in Antwerp in Donated by the Stadtschützen Winterthur rifle club 5. Olympic medal from Paris in 1924, engraved VIIIe Olympiade Paris View of the city of Paris with bridge; on the reverse an angel awards laurels to a youth. Thanks to Josias Hartmann from Bern, the Swiss won a Bronze medal in the 50m Free Rifle event in Paris in Another Bronze was won at 300m by Kurt Müller from Kriens in Mexico City in At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 Emil Grünig from Kriens won the Gold medal at 300m and Rudolf Schnyder won the Silver in the 50m Free Pistol event. 6. The Silver medal won by Rudolph Schnyder at the Olympic Games in London in Donated by Frau Grollymund-Schnyder and her siblings 7. Rudolph Schnyder s diploma from the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Donated by Frau Grollymund-Schnyder and her siblings 8. Perpetual trophy in honour of Dr. Willy Schnyder, champion marksman and long-serving President of the Swiss Match Shooters Association, presented by his widow, Dr. M.Schnyder-Fröhlicher, following his death in The trophy, modelled on his match pistol and bearing the coats of arms of the Schnyder and Fröhlicher families in bronze and silver on a wooden plinth, was to be awarded to the best individual pistol shooter at match championship events or the team winner at World Championships or Olympics. In 1948 the son of Willy Schnyder, Rudolph Schnyder, was the top pistol shooter at the London Olympics and thus took possession of the trophy. On loan from the Schützengesellschaft Basel rifle club 9. Picture of Emil Grünig receiving the Gold medal at the awards ceremony of the 1948 Olympics in London. Robert Bürchler from Zürich brought Switzerland home a further 300m Silver medal from Helsinki in 1952, as did Hansruedi Spillmann (Zürich) from the 1960 Games in Rome and Daniel Nipkow from the 50m Free Rifle event in Los Angeles in At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Michel Ansermet secured the Silver medal in the 25m Rapid Fire pistol event. 2

3 10. The Silver medal which Michel Ansermet won at the Olympic Games in Sydney in Olympic diploma for Michel Ansermet from the Games at Sydney in The.22 Short Pardini Olympic Rapid Fire pistol with which Michel Ansermet won the exhibited medal in the 25m Rapid Fire event at the Olympic Games in Sydney in The Adidas polo shirt worn by Michel Ansermet at the Olympic Games in Sydney in Michel Ansermet s competitor number from the Olympic Games in Sydney in Picture from the 28 September 2000 edition of the Schweizerische Schützenzeitung, the journal of the Swiss national rifle association: Michel Ansermet with the Silver medal won at the Olympic Games in Sydney in Picture from the 8 August 2012 edition of Schiessen Schweiz (the retitled journal of the Swiss national rifle association), of Michel Ansermet with the Silver medal he won at the Olympic Games in Sydney in Reporting directly from Sydney for the Schützenzeitung, Werner Hirt wrote on 28 September 2000: 17. Thanks, Guido Just as he did in Atlanta four years ago, the Sius representative Guido Geissmann once again invited me to travel with him between the hotel and the shooting ranges. The Cecil Park ranges were around 20 kilometres from the hotel and in heavy traffic that took a good three quarters of an hour. There was no official bus service, or if there was, then the departure times in the late afternoon were not designed to meet the needs of the press. Many thanks Guido; your consideration and kindness to a colleague lightened my workload significantly. In the same issue one also finds: 3

4 18. Many thanks, Sepp and Heinz I would especially like to express my thanks to Sepp Fischlin and Heinz Bolliger, who in the past months have striven hard at the ISSF, the International Sports Shooting Federation, to secure me a wild card. They were untiring in their contact with the headquarters in Munich, and in the end their efforts were rewarded with success. A part of the Silver medal is theirs too. Michel Ansermet, Silver medal winner, Sydney. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 Cornelia Froelich, who obtained 7 th place in the 10m Air Pistol match, was the top Swiss markswoman, and in 2008 in Beijing the best Swiss markswoman was Irène Beyeler, with 16 th place in the 10m Air Rifle. For the 2012 Olympic Games Annik Marguet, Pascal Loretan, Heidi Diethelm Gerber, Marcel Bürge, Simon Beyeler, Patrick Scheuber and Fabio Ramella travelled to London. Of the Swiss delegation Marcel Bürge was the most successful shooter, narrowly missing the finals on two occasions. In the end he obtained 11 th place in the 50m smallbore Rifle Three Positions match, and 14 th place in the Rifle Prone. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 he was placed 9 th in the Rifle Prone match. In an interview in the journal of the Swiss national rifle association, Schiessen Schweiz (9 September 2012, pp.6-11) he tells Daniel Good about his achievements and experiences in the three Olympics in which he has participated. 19. Interview with Marcel Bürge in Schiessen Schweiz, 9 September 2012, pp Note also the mannequin of him. 20. The Olympic holdall of Simon Beyeler, who obtained 19 th place in the smallbore 50m RifleThree Positions match at the Olympic games in London in Various souvenirs which Simon Beyeler brought home from the two Olympiads in Beijing in 2008 and London in Official clothing of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, belonging to Simon Beyeler. 4

5 23. Official clothing of the 2012 Olympics in London, belonging to Simon Beyeler. 24. Smallbore Free Rifle, built by Thomas Hochuli twenty years ago. It is a unique piece with set-back block lockwork and electronic trigger. This rifle conforms to ISSF rules and the donor has shot with it on a number of occasions in Swiss Championships, Team Championship Finals, etc. Donated by Thomas Hochuli 25. Mascots for the 2016 Olympiad: Vinicius and Tom. According to the dpa News Channel report of 15 December 2014, these are the product of an online survey which the organizing committee put out on its internet site: the names recall the two deceased creators of the Bossa-Nova song The Girl from Ipanema, Vinicius de Moraes (lyrics) and Antonio Tom Carlos Jobim (music). The names Vinicius and Tom are already recognized worldwide as synonyms for the best in our music, and it is precisely that image of the best that we want to put forward in the Rio Games, said the chairman of the organizing committee, Carlos Nutzman, according to an online report of the newspaper O Globo. Since the year 2000 Swiss marksmen and markswomen have not brought home any more medals. We wish our Swiss Shooting Team good luck, and hope that we can contribute to the Swiss medal count in Photograph of the Olympic delegation of the Swiss national rifle association to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. From the SSV website: "Our quartet for Rio Heidi Diethelm Gerber, Sarah Hornung, Nina Christen and Jan Lochbihler: these are the four shooters who will fly the Swiss flag at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The Swiss Olympic shooters (left to right): Heidi Diethelm Gerber, Sarah Hornung, Nina Christen and Jan Lochbihler. After London 2012 Diethelm Gerber will be taking part in her second Olympic Games, whilst Rio 2016 will be the Olympic début for Christen, Hornung und Lochbihler. Heidi Diethelm Gerber, Sarah Hornung und Jan Lochbihler were also selected by Swiss Olympic last year for their first European Games. In Baku Diethelm Gerber won a Gold in the Sport Pistol event, and Hornung brought home a Silver in the Air Rifle. Twenty year old Sarah Hornung was also able to celebrate a significant success when she won the Gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in