Olympic Summer Games 1932 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , USA , with a 19-member delegation. Among them were nine athletes, seven men and two women. Despite the small field of participants, a total of five medals went to Austria.

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Ellen Müller Prize	fencing	Women, foil, singles

silver

Name (s)	sport	competition
Hans Haas	Weightlifting	lightweight

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Karl Hipfinger	Weightlifting	medium weight
Nikolaus Hirschl	Wrestling	Heavyweight, Freestyle & Heavyweight, Greco-Roman

Participants by sport

fencing

• Ellen Müller Prize

  Women, foil, singles: gold

Weightlifting

• Hans Haas

  Lightweight: silver

• Karl Hipfinger

  Middleweight: bronze

athletics

• Emil Janausch

  Discus throw: 10th place

• Felix Rinner

  400 meters: semi-finals

Wrestling

• Nikolaus Hirschl

  Heavyweight, freestyle: bronze

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

sailing

• Hans Riedl

  12-foot dinghy: 10th place

Diving

• Magdalene Epply

  Women, jumping: 6th place

  Women, high diving: 7th place

• Josef Staudinger

  Art jumping: 9th place

  Diving: 4th place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team from 1932 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )