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Markus Ryffel
Markus Ryffel (born 5 February 1955 in Bern) is a Swiss long-distance runner who won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic5000 metres final in Los Angeles.
He set the Swiss record at 13:07.54 min (see, for example, "The Great Olympic Book 4" / Suuri Olympiateos 4, published in Finland in 1984).
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He also won a silver medal at the 1978 European Championships in Athletics, sharing it with the Soviet Union's Alexander Fedotkin; they both lost just one-tenth of a second to Italy's Venanzio Ortis (see, for example, "European Athletics Championships 1978" / Yleisurheilun EM-kisat 1978, written by the "Runner" / Juoksija magazine's journalists and published in Finland in 1978).
Between these two major championships medals, Ryffel had a rather varying success as a 5,000-metre runner. In the 1980 Moscow Olympics, he placed fifth in that distance, losing to the winner, Ethiopia's Miruts Yifter, by 2.1 seconds (see, for example, "The Moscow Olympic Book" / Moskovan Olympiakirja,