Olympic Summer Games 1968 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 43 athletes, including 35 men and eight women. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the fencer Roland Losert .

Medals

The Austrian athletes won two silver and two bronze medals. The sailor Hubert Raudaschl won silver in the Finn dinghy as did the athlete Liese Prokop in the pentathlon. The athlete Eva Janko secured bronze in the javelin throw and the canoeists Günther Pfaff and Gerhard Seibold in a two-person kayak over 1000 meters.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Kurt Baumgartner

  Men, light middleweight: 2nd round

• Rainer Salzburger

  Men, light middleweight: 1st round

fencing

• Frank Battig

  Men, epee, team: 9th place

• Udo Birnbaum

  Men, foil, singles: 25th place

  Men, epee, team: 9th round

• Roland Losert

  Men, foil, singles: 17th place

  Men, epee, singles: 2nd round

  Men, epee, team: 9th place

• Herbert Polzhuber

  Men, swords, singles: 5th place

  Men, epee, team: 9th place

• Rudolf Trost

  Men, foil, singles: 25th place

  Men, epee, singles: 2nd round

Weightlifting

• Kurt Pittner

  Men, bantamweight: 10th place

Canoe (race)

• Günther Pfaff & Gerhard Seibold

  Men, kayak twos, 1000 m: bronze

• Helmut Hediger , Kurt Lindlgruber , Günther Pfaff & Gerhard Seibold

  Men, kayak foursome, 1000 m: 7th place

athletics

• Inge Aigner

  Women, 80 meter hurdles: semi-finals

• Walter Dießl

  Men, decathlon: 12th place

• Ilona Gusenbauer

  Women, high jump: 8th place

• Device down

  Men, decathlon: eliminated

• Eva Janko

  Ladies, javelin throw: bronze

• Rudolf Klaban

  Men, 1500 meters: prelims

• Horst Mandl

  Men, decathlon: eliminated

• Walter Pektor

  Men, javelin: 10th place

• Ingo Peyker

  Men, pole vault: no valid attempt in qualification

• Read Procopius

  Ladies, pentathlon: silver

• Heimo Reinitzer

  Men, discus throw: 22nd place (qualification)

• Erika Strasser

  Ladies, javelin throw: not a valid throw

Modern pentathlon

• Wolfgang Leu

  Men, singles: eliminated in swimming

  Men, doubles: eliminated in swimming

• Wolf-Dietrich Sonnleitner

  Men, singles: 23rd place

  Men, doubles: eliminated

• Siegfried Springer

  Men, singles: 28th place

  Men, doubles: eliminated

Wrestling

• Franz Berger

  Men, welterweight, Greco-Roman: 12th place

rowing

• Dieter Ebner & Dieter Losert

  Gentlemen, two men without a helmsman: 4th place

• Manfred Krausbar

  Men, one: 10th place

shoot

• Hubert Garschall

  Rapid fire pistol 25 meters: 30th place

  Free pistol 50 meters: 18th place

• Guido Loacker

  Small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 14th place

• Josef Meixner

  Trap: 37th place

• Friedrich Schattleitner

  Small bore, lying 50 meters: 35th place

• Wolfram Waibel senior

  Small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 32nd place

  Small bore, lying 50 meters: 53rd place

swim

• Christl Filippovits

  Women, 100 m chest: semi-finals

  Women, 200 m chest: prelims

• Yvette Hafner

  Women, 100 m back: heats

  Women, 200 m back: heats

• Peter Schmid

  Men, 100 m freestyle: prelims

  Men, 200 m individual medley: prelims

sailing

• Werner Fischer & Karl Geiger

  Flying Dutchman: 17th place

• Hubert Raudaschl

  Finn Dinghy: Silver

Diving

• Inge Pertmayr

  Women, jumping: 19th place

  Women, high diving: 9th place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )