Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Participant (Austria)

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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

• Adolf Schmal

  333 ⅓ m time trial: 3rd place

  10 km: 3rd place

  100 km: task

  12-hour race: Olympic champion:

swim

• Otto Herschmann

  100 m freestyle:

• Paul Neumann

  500 m freestyle:

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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