André Bucher

André Bucher (born 19 October 1976) is a retired Swiss 800 metres runner who ran for Adidas.

Other achievements include finishing third at the 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney a medal was possibly chiselled out of him when he was barged into by his competitor Andrea Longo.

[1] On that race, he beat the young Yuriy Borzakovskiy by a decent margin.

The week after, Borzakovskiy would post the time that currently makes him 12th fastest in history.