Olympic Summer Games 1908 / Participant (Austria)

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For the first time the athletes from Cisleithanien , the part of Austria / Bohemia of Austria-Hungary , were sent to the Olympic Games in London in 1908 by the Austrian Olympic Committee . However, for financial reasons, only seven athletes took part. They returned with only one medal.

Medalist

Third

Surname	sport	competition
Otto Scheff	swim	400 meter freestyle swimming

Participants by sport

fencing

• Fritz Flesch

  Saber (single): 2nd round

athletics

• Emmerich Rath

  Go 10 miles: Out in the preliminary round

  Marathon: 25th place

• Edi Schönecker

  100 m: off in the preliminary round

  200 m: off in the preliminary round

swim

• Otto Scheff

  100 m freestyle: semifinals

  400 m freestyle: 3rd place - bronze

  1500 m freestyle: semifinals

tennis

singles
Rolf Kinzl	1 round
Felix Pipes	1 round
Arthur Zborzil	2nd round
Double
Felix Pipes	Quarter finals
Arthur Zborzil

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1908 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Olympic Museum of the ÖOC