Mister Austria
Mister Austria is a national beauty pageant for men in Austria that has been run by the Miss Austria Corporation since 1996 . The venue has been the Empire Club in Linz since (at least) 2002 . The first two from each federal state take part in the final round. This means that 18 candidates from the 9 federal states are running for the election.
Austria has been sending candidates to the international Manhunt International competition since 1994 . How the first participants qualified is not known.
The winners
| year | Surname | place of origin | state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Helmut Strebl | Reutte |
 Tyrol
|
| 1997 | Andreas Sappl | Telfs |
Tyrol
|
| 1998 | Gerald Suitner |
Tyrol
|
|
| 1999 | Bernd Winterleitner |
 Styria
|
|
| 2000 | Martin Fritz | Bludenz |
 Vorarlberg
|
| 2001 | Manuel Rauner | Loipersbach in Burgenland |
 Burgenland
|
| 2002 | Michael Schuller | Leonding |
 Upper Austria
|
| 2003 | David Königshofer | Linz |
Upper Austria
|
| 2004 | Dejan Krstovic | Hard |
Vorarlberg
|
| 2005 | Matthias Thaler | innsbruck |
Tyrol
|
| 2006 | Emanuel Burger | Hard |
Vorarlberg
|
| 2007 | Stefan Koeb | Wolfurt |
Vorarlberg
|
| 2009 | Lukas Wosmek | Wiener Neustadt |
 Lower Austria
|
| 2010 | Andreas Greifeneder | catfish |
Upper Austria
|
| 2011 | Kurt Kases | Vienna |
 Vienna
|
| 2013 | Philipp Knefz |
Styria
|
|
| 2015 | Fabian Kitzweger | Velm |
Lower Austria
|
| 2016 | Philipp Rafetseder | Linz |
Upper Austria
|
Austrian participants in international competitions
Not all of the participants listed here bore the title Mister Austria : other finalists of the competition were also delegated.
As far as is known, the placement in the respective international competition is given in brackets after the name : One digit means the place, SF = semi-finalist.
| year | Manhunt International | Mister World |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Alex Schindelars | |
| 1995 | Rainer Kantz | |
| 1996 | No competition | Helmut Strebl |
| 1997 | no participation | No competition |
| 1998 | Erich Wandl | Andreas Sappl |
| 1999 | William Summer | No competition |
| 2000 | no participation | no participation |
| 2001 | Gunter Niederist | No competition |
| 2002 | no participation | No competition |
| 2003 | No competition | Michael Schuller |
| 2004 | No competition | No competition |
| 2005 | no participation | No competition |
| 2006 | no participation | No competition |
| 2007 | Marcus Unfried | Matthias Thaler (SF) |
| 2008 | no participation | No competition |
More beauty pageants for men
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philipp Knefz is "Mister Austria 2013" , oe24.at, November 23, 2013. Accessed June 26, 2014.
- Manhunt International at pageantopolis.com (English) ( Memento from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Mr World in pageantopolis.com (English) ( Memento of 30 March 2010 at the Internet Archive )