Nicole Schnyder-Benoit (born March 13, 1973) is a retired professional
beach volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...
player from Switzerland, who represented her native country at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
in
Athens, Greece
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. Partnering
Simone Kuhn she claimed the gold medal at the
2004 European Championships in
Timmendorfer Strand
Timmendorfer Strand (Timmendorf Beach) is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the Bay of Lübeck (Baltic Sea), approximately northwest of Lübeck, and southeast of Eutin.
Notable Pe ...
, Germany.
In 1992, she became Swiss champion in
high jump
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.
Schnyder-Benoit is married and mother of 2 boys.
Playing partners
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Simone Kuhn
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Magi Schlaefli
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Annalea Hartmann
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Nadia Erni
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Sandra Bratschi
Sandra or SANDRA may refer to:
People
* Sandra (given name)
* Sandra (singer) (born 1962), German pop singer
* Margaretha Sandra (1629–1674), Dutch soldier
* Sandra (orangutan), who won the legal right to be defined as a "non-human person"
Pla ...
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Franziska Frei
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Patricia Dormann
References
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External links
Team Kuhn/Schnyder-Benoit*
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1973 births
Living people
Swiss beach volleyball players
Women's beach volleyball players
Olympic beach volleyball players for Switzerland
Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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