Axel Müller (born 3 January 1992 in

Genolier Genolier is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Genolier is first mentioned in 1110 as ''Genolliacum''. Geography Genolier has an area, , of . Of this area, or 44.8% is used for agricultural pur ...

, Switzerland) is a

Swi SWI may refer to: Places: * Switzerland (this is not the ISO 3166-1 code, which is CHE) * Swindon railway station (National Rail code SWI), serving Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom In science and technology: * SWI-Prolog, a free implementatio ...

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. He competed in the individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in the last 64. He lost to the eventual gold medalist

Oh Jin-hyek Oh Jin-hyek ( ko, 오진혁; , Hanja: 吳真爀; born 15 August 1981) is a South Korean archer. Oh first competed for the Korean national team in 1999, but did not win a major individual international tournament un ...

. He qualified by finishing 4th in the qualification competition in Ogden. He was the first Swiss archer to qualify for the Olympics in 28 years. Previously, he finished 9th at the Youth Olympics in 2010.

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Swiss male archers 1992 births Living people Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Switzerland Archers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics People from Nyon District Sportspeople from the canton of Vaud {{Switzerland-archery-bio-stub