Olympic Summer Games 1948 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with a delegation of 147 people. Among them were 114 athletes, 88 of them men and 26 women. The team won four medals and thus achieved 21st place in the national ranking .

Medals

gold

• Athletics - Javelin Throw, Ladies: Herma Bauma

silver

no

bronze

• Athletics - Shot Put, Ladies: Ine Schäffer
• Canoe - kayak single, 500 meters, women: Fritzi Schwingl
• Fencing - foil, singles, women: Ellen Price

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Karl Ameisbichler

  Heavyweight: 2nd round

• Robert Gausterer

  Flyweight: 1st round

• Eduard Kerschbaumer

  Featherweight: quarterfinals

• Hermann Mazurkiewitsch

  Bantamweight: 1st round

• Otto Michtits

  Light Heavyweight: 1st round

fencing

• Heinz Lechner

  Men, sabers, team: quarter-finals

• Hubert Loisel

  Men, sabers, singles: semi-finals

  Men, sabers, team: quarter-finals

• Ellen Müller Prize

  Women, foil, singles: bronze

• Werner Plattner

  Men, sabers, singles: preliminary round

  Men, sabers, team: quarter-finals

• Heinz Putzl

  Men, sabers, singles: quarter-finals

  Men, sabers, team: quarter-finals

• Fritzi Wenisch-Filz

  Women, foil, singles: 5th place

• Gabriele Zeilinger

  Women, foil, singles: quarter-finals

Soccer

• Men's team

  9th place (round of 16)

• Squad

  Josef Epp

  Erich Habitzl

  Wilhelm Hahnemann

  Ernst Happel

  Siegfried Joksch

  Alfred Koerner

  Karl Kowanz

  Ernst Melchior

  Leopold Mikolasch

  Ernst Ocffekt

  Franz Pelican

Weightlifting

• Franz Eibler

  Heavyweight: 14th place

• Fritz Haller

  Lightweight: 14th place

• Wilhelm Pankl

  Lightweight: 13th place

• Anton Richter

  Featherweight: 11th place

• Klement shoe

  Middleweight: 16th place

• Josef Vojtech

  Bantamweight: 17th place

hockey

• Men's team

  5th place (preliminary round)

• Squad

  Adam Bishop

  Karl Brandl

  Karl Holzapfel

  Johann Koller

  Franz Lovato

  Walter Niederle

  Oskar Nowak

  Karl Ördögh

  Franz Raule

  Friedrich Rückert

  Ernst Schala

  Franz Strachota

canoe

• Paul Felinger / Herbert Klepp

  Men, kayak twos, 1000 m: 10th place

• Herbert Klepp

  Men, kayak single, 10,000 m: heats

• Karl Molnar / Viktor Salmhofer

  Men, canoe two-man, 1000 m: 5th place

  Men, canoe two-man, 10,000 m: 4th place

• Walter Piemann

  Men, kayak single, 1000 m: 8th place

• Walter Piemann / Alfred Umgeher

  Men, kayak twos, 10,000 m: 9th place

• Fritzi Schwingl

  Women, kayak single, 500 m: bronze

athletics

• Herma Bauma

  Ladies, javelin throw: gold

• Anni Bruk

  Ladies, shot put: 6th place

• Lotte Haidegger

  Ladies, discus throw: 5th place

• Grete Jenny

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

• Maria Oberbreyer

  Women, 100 meters: heats

  Women, 80 meter hurdles: 5th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

  Women, long jump: 9th place

• Grete Pavlousek

  Women, 100 meters: heats

  Women, 200 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

• Arnulf Pilhatsch

  Men, high jump: 21st place (qualification)

• Ine Schäffer

  Ladies, shot put: bronze

• Gerda Schilling

  Women, javelin: 9th place

• Marianne Schläger

  Ladies, shot put: 12th place

  Women, discus throw: 15th place

• Ilse Steinegger

  Women, high jump: 7th place

  Women, long jump: 10th place

• Elfriede Steurer

  Women, 80 meter hurdles: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

• Frieda Tiltsch

  Women, discus throw: 9th place

• Hermann Tunner

  Men, discus throw: 11th place

• Felix Würth

  Men, long jump: 8th place

  Men, triple jump: 21st place (qualification)

Cycling

• Walter Friday

  1000 meter individual time trial: 8th place

  Team pursuit, 4000 meters: 2nd lap

• Hans Goldschmid

  Road race, individual: DNF

  Road race, team: DNF

  Team pursuit, 4000 meters: 2nd lap

• Siegmund Huber

  Road race, individual: DNF

  Road race, team: DNF

• Kurt Nemetz

  Tandem sprint, 2000 meters: 9th place

• Josef Pohnetal

  Road race, individual: DNF

  Road race, team: DNF

  Team pursuit, 4000 meters: 2nd lap

• Heinrich Schiebel

  Team pursuit, 4000 meters: 2nd lap

• Rudi Valenta

  Road race, individual: 14th place

  Road race, team: DNF

• Erich world

  Sprint: 3rd round

  Tandem sprint, 2000 meters: 2nd lap

horse riding

• Alois Podhajsky

  Dressage, individual: 7th place

• Heinrich Sauer

  Eventing, individual: DNF

Wrestling

• Kurt Elias

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Peter Enzinger

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Josef Schmidt

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Anton Vogel

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

  Middleweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Georg Weidner

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

rowing

• Erwin Bittmann , Franz Frauneder , Theodor Obrietan , Karl Riedel , Karl Sitter

  Foursome with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Gert Watzke / Kurt Watzke

  Two without a helmsman: semi-finals

shoot

• Richard Bohslavsky

  Small bore, lying 50 meters: 58th place

• Andreas Krapf

  Small bore, lying 50 meters: 50th place

• Ernst Wöll

  Small bore, lying 50 meters: 60th place

swim

• Walter Pavlicek

  200 meters chest: semi-finals

• Fritz Zwazl

  100 m back: prelims

sailing

• Harald von Musil

  Finn Dinghy: 21st place

• Georg Obermüller , Horst Obermüller / Hans Schachinger

  Star: 13th place

do gymnastics

• Karl Bohusch

  Men, singles: 36th place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Men, bottom: 14th place

  Men, horse jump: 46th place

  Men, parallel bars: 68th place

  Men, horizontal bar: 32nd place

  Men, rings: 63rd place

  Men, pommel horse: 30th place

• Hans Friedrich

  Men, singles: 59th place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Men, floor: 29th place

  Men, horse jump: 40th place

  Men, parallel bars: 35th place

  Men, horizontal bar: 77th place

  Men, rings: 89th place

  Men, pommel horse: 61st place

• Gottfried Hermann

  Men, singles: 114th place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Gentlemen, floor: 118th place

  Men, horse jump: 115th place

  Men, parallel bars: 76th place

  Men, horizontal bar: 51st place

  Men, rings: 117th place

  Men, pommel horse: 108th place

• Robert Pranz

  Men, singles: 99th place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Gentlemen, floor: 95th place

  Men, horse jump: 112th place

  Men, parallel bars: 107th place

  Men, horizontal bar: 87th place

  Men, rings: 98th place

  Men, pommel horse: 74th place

• Hans Sauter

  Men, singles: 66th place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Gentlemen, floor: 70th place

  Men, horse jump: 88th place

  Men, parallel bars: 63rd place

  Men, horizontal bar: 57th place

  Men, rings: 86th place

  Men, pommel horse: 36th place

• Willi Schreyer

  Men, singles: 61st place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Gentlemen, floor: 38th place

  Men, horse jump: 87th place

  Men, parallel bars: 74th place

  Men, horizontal bar: 41st place

  Men, rings: 83rd place

  Men, pommel horse: 48th place

• Willi world

  Men, singles: 123rd place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Men, parallel bars: 122nd place

• Ernst Wister

  Men, singles: 28th place

  Men, team: 9th place

  Men, bottom: 10th place

  Men, horse jump: 18th place

  Men, parallel bars: 37th place

  Men, horizontal bar: 45th place

  Men, rings: 44th place

  Men, pommel horse: 26th place

• Erika Enzenhofer , Gerti Fesl , Trude Gollner-Kolar , Gertrude Gries , Gretchen Hehenberger , Traudl Ruckser , Edeltraud Schramm , Gertrude Winnige-Barosch

  Women, team: 6th place

Diving

• Gudrun Groemer

  Ladies, jumping: 5th place

  Women, high diving: DNF

• Wilhelm Lippa

  Men, jumping: 19th place

  Men, high diving: 17th place

• Alma Staudinger

  Women, jumping: 11th place

  Women, high diving: 4th place

• Franz Worisch

  Men, jumping: 12th place

  Men, high diving: 15th place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1948 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )