Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
competed at the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas wit ...
in
Beijing
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, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Alpine skier
Wendy Holdener
Wendy Holdener (born 12 May 1993) is a Swiss FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer who specialises in Slalom skiing, slalom and Alpine skiing combined, combined. She is a two-time World champion in combined and a fiv ...
and hockey player
Andres Ambühl were selected as the Swiss flagbearers during the
opening ceremony
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Ryan Regez was the flagbearer during the
closing ceremony
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Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
Medalists
The following Swiss competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.
Alpine skiing
Switzerland qualified the maximum eleven male and eleven female alpine skiers.
;Men
;Women
Mixed
Biathlon
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Switzerland qualified eight male and six female cross-country skiers.
;Distance
;Men
;Women
;Sprint
Curling
;Summary
Men's tournament
Switzerland has qualified their men's team (five athletes), by finishing in the top six teams in the
2021 World Men's Curling Championship
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. Team
Peter de Cruz
Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having skipped his Swiss rink to a third place finish at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz is the skip of his ...
qualified as Swiss representatives by winning the
2021 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials, defeating
Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva.
Career
Juniors
Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...
4–0 in the best-of-seven event.
;Round robin
Switzerland had a
bye in draws 2, 6 and 10.
;Draw 1
''Wednesday, 9 February, 20:05''
;Draw 3
''Friday, 11 February, 9:05''
;Draw 4
''Friday, 11 February, 20:05''
;Draw 5
''Saturday, 12 February, 14:05''
;Draw 7
''Sunday, 13 February, 20:05''
;Draw 8
''Monday, 14 February, 14:05''
;Draw 9
''Tuesday, 15 February, 9:05''
;Draw 11
''Wednesday, 16 February, 14:05''
;Draw 12
''Thursday, 17 February, 9:05''
Women's tournament
Switzerland has qualified their women's team (five athletes), by finishing in the top six teams in the
2021 World Women's Curling Championship. Team
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is a four-time women's world champion skip (, , , ) and five-time Grand Slam champion. She is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion. Tirinzo ...
qualified as Swiss representatives as they finished in the top six at the 2021 Women's Worlds and reached the playoffs at the
2019 European Curling Championships
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.
;Round robin
Switzerland had a
bye in draws 4, 7 and 11.
;Draw 1
''Thursday, 10 February, 9:05''
;Draw 2
''Thursday, 10 February, 20:05''
;Draw 3
''Friday, 11 February, 14:05''
;Draw 5
''Saturday, 12 February, 20:05''
;Draw 6
''Sunday, 13 February, 14:05''
;Draw 8
''Monday, 14 February, 20:05''
;Draw 9
''Tuesday, 15 February, 14:05''
;Draw 10
''Wednesday, 16 February, 9:05''
;Draw 12
''Thursday, 17 February, 14:05''
;Semifinal
''Friday, 18 February, 20:05''
;Bronze medal game
''Saturday, 19 February, 20:05''
Mixed doubles tournament
Switzerland has qualified their mixed doubles team (two athletes), by finishing in the top seven teams in the
2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. On 28 September 2021, the Swiss Olympic Association announced that
Jenny Perret
Jenny Sarah Perret (born 23 December 1991) is a Swiss curler from Lyss. She and partner Martin Rios won the 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. The pair also represented Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Olympics where they won a silver ...
and
Martin Rios
Martin Rios (born 24 May 1981) is a Spanish-Swiss curler. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in the mixed doubles tournament with partner Jenny Perret, winning a silver medal. He is two-time (2012, 2017) World Mixed Doubles Champion an ...
would be their mixed doubles representatives.
;Round robin
Switzerland had a
bye in draws 2, 6, 8 and 10.
;Draw 1
''Wednesday, 2 February, 20:05''
;Draw 3
''Thursday, 3 February, 14:05''
;Draw 4
''Thursday, 3 February, 20:05''
;Draw 5
''Friday, 4 February, 8:35''
;Draw 7
''Saturday, 5 February, 9:05''
;Draw 9
''Saturday, 5 February, 20:05''
;Draw 11
''Sunday, 6 February, 14:05''
;Draw 12
''Sunday, 6 February, 20:05''
;Draw 13
''Monday, 7 February, 9:05''
Figure skating
In the
2021 World Figure Skating Championships
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in
Stockholm
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, Sweden, Switzerland secured one quota in the men's competition.
Freestyle skiing
;Aerials
;Freeski
;Moguls
;Ski cross
*
Ice hockey
;Summary
Key:
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*by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society) ...
*
GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout
Switzerland has qualified 25 male competitors, and 23 female competitors to the ice hockey tournaments.
Men's tournament
Switzerland men's national ice hockey team
The Switzerland men's national ice hockey team (; ; ) is a founding member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and is controlled by the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation.
As of 2024, the Swiss team is ranked 5th in the IIHF World Rankin ...
qualified by being ranked 8th in the 2019
IIHF World Ranking
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s.
;Team roster
;Group play
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----
;Playoffs
;Quarterfinals
Women's tournament
Switzerland women's national ice hockey team
The Swiss women's national ice hockey team represents Switzerland at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's national team is controlled by the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation.
Tournament rec ...
qualified by being ranked 5th in the 2020
IIHF World Ranking
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s.
;Team roster
;Group play
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Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Luge
Based on the results during the
2021–22 Luge World Cup
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season, Switzerland qualified 1 sled in the women's singles.
Skeleton
Ski jumping
;Men
Snowboarding
;Freestyle
;Parallel
;Snowboard cross
Speed skating
Switzerland qualified two speed skaters (one of each gender).
;Mass start
See also
*
Switzerland at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
References
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Nations at the 2022 Winter Olympics
2022
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Winter Olympics
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