Olympic Summer Games 1976 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 60 athletes, including 54 men and six women. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the canoeist Günther Pfaff .

Medals

The only Austrian medal success in Montreal was achieved by the marksman Rudolf Dollinger , he won bronze with the free pistol over 50 meters. Dollinger had already won bronze in this category four years earlier.

Participants by sport

Archery

• Oswald Probst

  Men, singles: 33rd place

Boxing

• Franz Dorfer

  Men, light middleweight: 1st round

• Christian Sittler

  Men, light welterweight: 3rd round

fencing

• Hans Brandstätter

  Men, sabers, singles: 41st place

• Herbert Lindner

  Men, swords, singles: 36th place

  Men, epee, team: 11th place

• Karl-Heinz Müller

  Men, swords, singles: 21st place

  Men, epee, team: 11th place

• Herbert Polzhuber

  Men, epee, team: 11th place

• Peter Zobl-Wessely

  Men, swords, singles: 34th place

  Men, epee, team: 11th place

Weightlifting

• Rudolf Hill

  Men, middle heavyweight: 12th place

• Vinzenz Hörtnagl

  Men, heavyweight: 13th place

• Gottfried Langthaler

  Men, lightweight: 13th place

• Walter Legel

  Men, lightweight: 10th place

• Kurt Pittner

  Men, bantamweight: DNF

Judo

• Jurek Jatowitt

  Men, middleweight: 11th place

• Erich Pointner

  Gentlemen, lightweight: 5th place

• Johann Pollak

  Men, light heavyweight: 18th place

• Klaus Wallas

  Men, Open Class: 9th place

Canoe (race)

• Hans Peter Mayr & Günther Pfaff

  Men, kayak twos, 1000 m: semi-finals

• Günther Pfaff

  Men, kayak single, 1000 m: semi-finals

athletics

• Christiane Wildschek

  Women, 400 meters: semi-finals

• Eva Janko

  Women, javelin: 9th place

• Silvia Schinzel

  Ladies, 200 meters. Semifinals

• Peter Sternad

  Men, hammer throw: 18th place (qualification)

• Georg Werthner

  Men, decathlon: 16th place

• Sepp Zeilbauer

  Men, decathlon: eliminated

Cycling (road)

• Roman Humenberger

  Men, road races, singles: 21st place

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 15th place

• Leo Karner

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 15th place

• Rudolf Mitteregger

  Men, road races, singles: 51st place

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 15th place

• Herbert Spindler

  Men, road races, singles: 18th place

• Wolfgang Steinmayr

  Men, road races, singles: 27th place

• Johann Summer

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 15th place

horse riding

• Thomas Frühmann

  Jumping, individual: 38th place

  Jumping, team: 11th place

• Henk Hulzebos

  Jumping, singles: eliminated

  Jumping, team: 11th place

• Hugo Simon

  Jumping, singles: 5th place

  Jumping, team: 11th place

• Rüdiger Wassibauer

  Jumping, team: 11th place

Wrestling

• Hans Kiss

  Men, welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated

• Franz Pitschmann

  Men, middleweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated

rowing

• Maria Leibetseder & Renate Sigl

  Women, double sculls: 10th place

• Ulrich Wolf

  Men, One: Quarter Finals

shoot

• Rudolf Dollinger

  Open classes, free pistol 50 meters: bronze

• Hubert Garschall

  Open classes, free pistol 50 meters: 30th place

• Gerhard Krimbacher

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 42nd place

  Men, small caliber, lying 50 meters: 12th place

• Josef Meixner

  Open classes, trap: 16th place

• Gerhard Petritsch

  Men, rapid fire pistol 25 meters: 7th place

• Nikolaus Reinprecht

  Open classes, trap: 25th place

• Franz Schitzhofer

  Open classes, Skeet: 5th place

• Wolfram Waibel senior

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 40th place

  Men, small caliber, lying 50 meters: 20th place

swim

• Steffen Kriechbaum

  Men, 100 m chest: preliminary round

  Men, 200 m chest: preliminary round

sailing

• Carl Auteried junior & Wolfgang Böhm

  Tempest: 12th place

• Johann Eisl & Ernst Seidl

  Flying Dutchman: 13th place

• Rudolf Mayr , Hubert Raudaschl & Walter Raudaschl

  Soling: 17th place

• Bernhard Prack & Hans Prack

  Tornado: 11th place

Diving

• Brigitte Duda

  Women, high diving: 24th place (qualification)

• Niki Stajković

  Men, high diving: 12th place (qualification)

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1976 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )