Olympic Summer Games 1988 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a delegation of 73 athletes, 66 of them men and six women. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the sailor Hubert Raudaschl .

Medals

Austria could only win one medal in Seoul: Judoka Peter Seisenbacher won gold in the men's middleweight division.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Biko Botowamungu

  Men, super heavyweight: 9th place

fencing

• Axel Birnbaum

  Men, swords, singles: 48th place

• Johannes Nagele

  Men, swords, singles: 24th place

• Anatol Richter

  Men, foil, singles: 55th place

• Arno Strohmeyer

  Men, epee, singles: 11th place

• Joachim "Benny" Wendt

  Men, foil, singles: 18th place

Weightlifting

• Franz Langthaler

  Men, 1st heavyweight: 8th place

Judo

• Pepi rider

  Men, half light weight: 12th place

• Peter Reiter

  Men, light middleweight: 11th place

• Peter Seisenbacher

  Men, Middleweight: Gold Medal

athletics

• Andreas Berger

  Men, 100 m: 2nd round

  Men, 200 m: 2nd round

• Klaus Bodenmüller

  Men, shot put: 16th place (qualification)

• Klaus Ehrle

  Men, 400 m hurdles: 2nd round

• Hermann Fehringer

  Men, pole vault: 13th place

• Ulrike Kleindl

  Women, long jump: 22nd place (qualification)

• Hans Lindner

  Men, hammer throw: 10th place

• Dietmar Millonig

  Men, 5000 m: 1st round

• Andreas Steiner

  Men, long jump: 21st place (qualification)

• Teddy Steinmayr

  Men, long jump: 28th place (qualification)

• Georg Werthner

  Men, decathlon: 21st place

Modern pentathlon

• Helmut Spannagl

  Men, singles: 36th place

Cycling

train

• Roland Königshofer

  Men, 4000 m team pursuit: 16th place (qualification)

  Men, points race: 12th place

• Kurt Schmied

  Men, 4000 m team pursuit: 16th place (qualification)

• Franz Stocher

  Men, 4000 m team pursuit: 16th place (qualification)

Street

• Dietmar Hauer

  Men, road races: 41st place

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 16th place

• Norbert Kostel

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 16th place

• Hans Lienhart

  Men, road races: 34th place

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 16th place

• Mario Traxl

  Men, road races: 22nd place

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 16th place

horse riding

• Boris Boor

  Men, individual jumping: eliminated in the final

• Hugo Simon

  Men, individual jumping: DNF (final)

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

• Elisabeth Bergmann

  Women, singles: 25th place (qualification)

Wrestling

• Josef-Georg Auer

  Men, bantamweight, freestyle: preliminary round

• Edwin Lins

  Men, light heavyweight, freestyle: preliminary round

• Alexander Neumüller

  Men, super heavyweight, Greco-Roman: preliminary round

• Franz Pitschmann

  Men, light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Markus Pittner

  Men, lightweight, Greco-Roman: preliminary round

rowing

• Hermann Bauer & Karl Sinzinger

  Men, two men without a helmsman: 12th place

• Harald Faderbauer & Thomas Musyl

  Men, double sculls: quarter-finals

• Arnold Jonke

  Men, One: Quarter Finals

shoot

• Sylvia Baldessarini

  Women, air pistol 10 m: 9th place

  Women, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 16th place

• Albert Deuring

  Men, air rifle 10 m: 34th place

  Men, small caliber, lying 50 meters: 45th place

• Dorothée Deuring

  Women, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 20th place

• Hannes Gufler

  Men, air rifle 10 m: 41st place

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 38th place

• Josef Hahnenkamp

  Gentlemen, Skeet: 33rd place

• Lothar Heinrich

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 36th place

  Men, small caliber, lying 50 meters: 15th place

• Hans Hierzer

  Men, air pistol 10 m: 40th place

  Men, free pistol 50 meters: 32nd place

• Horst Krasser

  Men, air pistol 10 m: 40th place

  Men, free pistol 50 meters: 32nd place

• Hermann Sailer

  Men, rapid fire pistol 25 meters: 31st place

• Christine Strahalm

  Women, air pistol 10 m: 8th place

  Women, combination pistol, 25 m: 18th place

• Barbara Troger

  Ladies, air pistol 10 m: 33rd place

swim

• Thomas Boehm

  Men, 100 m chest: 29th place

  Men, 200 m chest: 34th place

• Reinhold Leitner

  Men, 100 m butterfly: 29th place

  Men, 200 m butterfly: 18th place

• Markus Opatril

  Men, 50 m freestyle: 36th place

  Men, 100 m freestyle: 41st place

  Men, 4 × 100 m freestyle: disqualified

• Stefan Opatril

  Men, 100 m freestyle: disqualified

  Men, 4 × 100 m freestyle: disqualified

• Alexander Pilhatsch

  Men, 50 m freestyle: 38th place

  Men, 4 × 100 m freestyle: disqualified

• Alexander Placheta

  Men, 200 m freestyle: 41st place

  Men, 4 × 100 m freestyle: disqualified

sailing

• Christian Binder & Heimo Hecht

  Men, 470s: 24th place

• Christian Claus & Norbert Petschel

  Open classes, tornado: 4th place

• Stephan Puxkandl & Hubert Raudaschl

  Open classes, star: 13th place

• Hans Spitzauer

  Men, Finn dinghy: 15th place

• Thomas Wallner

  Men, windsurfing: 11th place

tennis

• Alexander Antonitsch

  Singles, men: 33rd place

  Doubles, men: 9th place

• Barbara Paulus

  Singles, women: 9th place

• Horst Skoff

  Singles, men: 33rd place

  Doubles, men: 9th place

Table tennis

• Gottfried Bear

  Men, doubles: 17th place

• Yi thing

  Men, singles: 9th place

  Men, doubles: 17th place

Diving

• Erich Pils

  Men, 3-meter board: 19th place (qualification)

• Niki Stajković

  Men, 3-meter board: 9th place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1988 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )