Switzerland competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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People's Republic of China
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. This is a list of all of the Swiss athletes who have qualified for the Olympics and have been nominated by
Swiss Olympic Association
Swiss Olympic (also known as german: Schweizerischer Olympischer Verband, french: Association Olympique Suisse, it, Associazione Olimpica Svizzera, rm, Assiociaziun Olimpica Svizra) is the National Olympic Committee and the umbrella organisati ...
Heptathlon
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* The athlete who finished in second place, Lyudmila Blonska of the
Ukraine
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, tested positive for a banned substance. Both the A and the B tests were positive, therefore Blonska was stripped of her silver medal, and Züblin moved up a position.
Badminton
Canoeing
Slalom
Cycling
Road
The athlete who finished in second place,
Davide Rebellin
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Italy
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), tested positive for a banned substance. Both the A and the B tests were positive, therefore Rebellin was stripped of his silver medal, and Cancellara was upgraded to silver.
Track
;Pursuit
;Omnium
Mountain biking
BMX
Equestrian
Eventing
Show jumping
# denotes a result that did not count toward the team score * Switzerland was upgraded to bronze medal in the team jumping competition after Camiro, the horse of Norway's bronze medal winner Tony André Hansen, tested positive for use of capsaicin and was disqualified.Bronze medal reassigned after the disqualification of Tony André Hansen of
Norway
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.
Fencing
;Men
;Women
Gymnastics
Artistic
;Men
;Women
Marks and ranks from vault qualification differ as two vaults were used to determine event finalists while only the first of those counts toward the All-around total.
2008
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