Olympic Summer Games 1980 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 83 athletes, including 64 men and 19 women. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the sailor Karl Ferstl .

Medals

In Moscow the dressage rider Sissy Max-Theurer won the gold medal in the individual competition with her horse Mon Cherie. Austria was most successful in sailing: Wolfgang Mayrhofer won silver in the men's Finn dinghy competition, as did Hubert Raudaschl and Karl Ferstl in the open star class. There was also a bronze medal, which the marksman Gerhard Petritsch won with the rapid fire pistol over a distance of 25 meters. With a total of four medals, Austria took 21st place in the medal table.

Participants by sport

Archery

• Peter Mitterer

  Men, singles: 21st place

Boxing

• Robert Pfitscher

  Men, middleweight: 9th place

Weightlifting

• Vinzenz Hörtnagl

  Men, 2nd heavyweight: 5th place

• Walter Legel

  Men, lightweight: 16th place

• Franz Strizik

  Men, 1st heavyweight: DNF

Hockey ladies

• Sabine Blemenschütz
• Eva Cambal
• Erika Csar
• Dorit Ganster
• Brigitte Kindler
• Andrea Kozma
• Patricia Lorenz
• Regina Lorenz
• Brigitta Pecanka
• Eleanor Pecanka
• Elisabeth Pistauer
• Andrea Porsch
• Friederike Stern
• Use Stipanovsky
  • 5th place

Judo

• Franz Berger

  Men, Open Class: 8th place

• Johann Leo

  Men, lightweight: 19th place

• Robert Köstenberger

  Men, light heavyweight: 13th place

• Pepi rider

  Men, half light weight: 19th place

• Peter Seisenbacher

  Men, middleweight: 19th place

Canoe (race)

• Werner Bachmayer & Wolfgang Hartl

  Men, kayak twos, 500 m: semi-finals

• Herbert Havlik , Hans Peter Mayr , Eduard Reisinger & Dietmar Schlöglmann

  Men, kayak foursome, 1000 m: semi-finals

• Herbert Havlik & Dietmar Schlöglmann

  Men, kayak twos, 1000 m: semi-finals

athletics

• Karoline Beetle

  Women, 400 meters: heats

• Wolfgang Konrad

  Men, 3000 m hurdles: semi-finals

• Dietmar Millonig

  Men, 5000 meters: 6th place

• Robert Nemeth

  Men, 1500 meters: semi-finals

• William Rea

  Men, long jump: 15th place (qualification)

• Johann Siegele

  Men, 20 km walking: 22nd place

• Wilfried Siegele

  Men, 20 km walking: DNF

• Josef Steiner

  Men, marathon: 39th place

• Martin Toporek

  Men, 20 km walking: 22nd place

• Georg Werthner

  Men, decathlon: 4th place

• Sepp Zeilbauer

  Men, decathlon: 5th place

Modern pentathlon

• Alexander Topay

  Men, singles: 35th place

• Helmut Wieser

  Men, singles: 38th place

Cycling (road)

• Hans Lienhart

  Men, road races, singles: DNF

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 13th place

• Peter Muckenhuber

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 13th place

• Herbert Spindler

  Men, road races, singles: 19th place

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 13th place

• Johann Summer

  Men, 100 km team time trial: 13th place

• Johann Traxler

  Men, road races, singles: 36th place

• Kurt Zellhofer

  Men, road races, singles: disqualified

horse riding

• Sissy Max-Theurer

  Dressage, individual: gold

Wrestling

• Bartholomäus Brötzner

  Men, welterweight, freestyle: preliminary round

• Günter Busarello

  Men, middleweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Reinhard Hartmann

  Men, lightweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Herbert Nigsch

  Men, bantamweight, Greco-Roman: preliminary round

• Franz Pitschmann

  Men, light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: preliminary round

rowing

• Wilfried Auerbach & Thomas Linemayr

  Men, two men without a helmsman: 9th place

• Bruno Flecker , Rainer Holzhaider , Michael Sageder & Siegfried Sageder

  Men, double fours: 10th place

• Raimund Schmidt

  Men, one: 11th place

shoot

• Heinrich Münzberger

  Open classes, trap: 14th place

• Gerhard Petritsch

  Gentlemen, rapid fire pistol 25 meters: bronze

• Hannes Rainer

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

• Nikolaus Reinprecht

  Open classes, trap: 18th place

• Hermann Sailer

  Men, rapid fire pistol 25 meters: 19th place

• Franz Schitzhofer

  Open classes, Skeet: 23rd place

• Nicky Szapáry

  Open classes, Skeet: 11th place

• Wolfram Waibel senior

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 24th place

  Men, small caliber, lying 50 meters: 25th place

swim

• Herwig Bayer

  Men, 100 m freestyle: preliminary round

  Men, 100 m back: preliminary round

• Kurt Dittrich

  Men, 100 m butterfly: preliminary round

• Sonja Hausladen

  Women, 100 m butterfly: preliminary round

  Women, 200 m butterfly: preliminary round

• Marianne Humpelstetter

  Women, 100 m back: preliminary round

• Brigitte Wanderer

  Women, 100 m freestyle: preliminary round

sailing

• Karl Ferstl & Hubert Raudaschl

  Open classes, Star: Silver

• Hermann Kupfner & Hubert Porkert

  Open classes, tornado: 7th place

• Wolfgang Mayrhofer

  Gentlemen, Finn Donghy: silver

Diving

• Ken Grove

  Men, jumping: 15th place

  Men, high diving: 12th place

• Niki Stajković

  Men, jumping: 12th place

  Men, high diving: 8th place

• Michael Worisch

  Men, jumping: 21st place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1980 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )