Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Participant (Austria)
AUT
3. | ||
---|---|---|
2 | 1 | 2 |
Although the Austrian Olympic Committee was not founded until 1906, Cisleithanien , the western part of Austria-Hungary , took part in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 . The committee established for the Olympic Games in Athens for Austria , chaired by Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek , Eduard Graf Lamezan-Salins and Theodor Harmes, was responsible for sending the athletes . A total of three athletes from Austria took part, all of whom won medals.
Medalist
Olympic champion
Surname | sport | competition |
---|---|---|
Paul Neumann | swim | 500 m freestyle |
Adolf Schmal | Cycling | 12 hour race |
Second
Surname | sport | competition |
---|---|---|
Otto Herschmann | swim | 100 m freestyle |
third place
Surname | sport | competition |
---|---|---|
Adolf Schmal | Cycling | 333 ⅓ m time trial |
Adolf Schmal | Cycling | 10 km |
Participants by sport
fencing
-
Adolf Schmal
- Saber: 4th place
Cycling
swim
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the ÖOC ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Austrian Olympic team 1896 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Olympic Museum of the ÖOC