Olympic Summer Games 1996 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics in the US metropolis of Atlanta with 72 athletes, 56 men and 16 women, in 15 sports.

Since 1896 it was Austria's 22nd participation in the Summer Olympics .

Flag bearer

The sailor Hubert Raudaschl carried the flag of Austria during the opening ceremony on July 19, 1996 in the Centennial Olympic Stadium .

Medalist

With a won silver and two bronze, the Austrian team was ranked 57 in the medal count .

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Wolfram Waibel	shoot	Air rifle

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Theresia Kiesl	athletics	Women 1500 m
Wolfram Waibel	shoot	Small caliber three-position fight

Participants by sport

badminton

discipline	Men
singles	Hannes Fuchs (2nd round)

fencing

discipline	Men
Foil single	Marco Falchetto (1st round) Michael Ludwig (2nd round) Benny Wendt (2nd round)
Foil team	Marco Falchetto , Michael Ludwig , Benny Wendt (4th)

Judo

discipline	Men	Women
lightweight	Thomas Schleicher (preliminary round)
Light middleweight	Patrick Reiter (preliminary round)
medium weight	Sergei Klischin (preliminary round)	Mariela Spacek (preliminary round)
Heavyweight	Eric Krieger (preliminary round)

canoe

discipline	Men	Women
Kayak single, 500 m		Uschi Profanter (6th)
Kayak singles, slalom	Manuel Köhler (42nd) Helmut Oblinger (28th)

athletics

discipline	Men	Women
110 m hurdles	Elmar Lichtenegger (1st round) Mark McKoy (2nd round) Herwig Röttl (1st round)
200 m	Thomas Griesser (1st round) Christoph Pöstinger (1st round)
4 × 100 m relay	Thomas Griesser , Martin Lachkovics , Christoph Pöstinger , Martin Schützenauer (1st round)
1500 m	Werner Edler-Muhr (1st round) Thomas Ebner (1st round)	Theresia Kiesl
Long jump		Lyudmila Ninova (Qualification)

Cycling

discipline	Men	Women
Street	Peter Luttenberger (81st) Harald Morscher (46th) Werner Riebenbauer (44th) Georg Totschnig (62nd) Peter Wrolich (54th)	Tanja Klein (22.)
time		Tanja Klein (23.)
Track cycling race (points)	Franz Stocher (12.)	Tanja Klein (16.)
Track bike race (1000 m time trial)	Christian Meidlinger (9th)
Mountain bike	Ernst Denifl (28.)

horse riding

discipline	Men	Women
Jump single	Anton-Martin Bauer on Vesuve Paluelle (11th) Thomas Metzger on Royal Flash (qualifying round) Helmut Morbitzer on Racal (25th) Hugo Simon on ET (4th)
Jumping team	Anton-Martin Bauer , Thomas Metzger , Helmut Morbitzer , Hugo Simon (11.)
Dressage singles		Caroline Hatlapa on Merlin (31st)

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

discipline	Women
singles	Birgit Schielin (24.) Nina Taborsky (29.)

rowing

discipline	Men	Women
One	Horst Nussbaumer (9.)
Double scull	Arnold Jonke / Christoph Zerbst (5th)	Monika Felizeter / Karola Schustereder (11.)
Lightweight double scull	Walter Rantasa / Wolfgang Sigl (5th)
Two without a helmsman	Hermann Bauer / Andreas Nader (11th)
Foursome without a helmsman	Gernot Faderbauer , Harald Hofmann , Martin Kobau , Christoph Schmölzer (12.)

shoot

discipline	Men
Air rifle, 10 meters	Dieter Grabner (18th place, qualification) Wolfram Waibel
Small caliber three-position fight, 50 meters	Thomas Farnik (13th place, qualification) Wolfram Waibel
Small caliber lying, 50 meters	Thomas Farnik (42nd place, qualification) Wolfram Waibel (39th place, qualification)

swim

discipline	Women
50 m freestyle	Judith Draxler (20th)
100 m freestyle	Judith Draxler (27.)
400 m freestyle	Martina Nemec (32nd)
100 m back	Vera Lischka (5.)
200 m chest	Elvira Fischer (23.)
200 m layers	Martina Nemec (30.)
400 m layers	Martina Nemec (30.)

sailing

discipline	Men
Finn	Hans Spitzauer (4th)
laser	Franz Urlesberger (14.)
star	Hubert Raudaschl / Andreas Hanakamp (15.)
tornado	Andreas Hagara / Florian Schneeberger (4th)

tennis

discipline	Women
singles	Judith Wiesner (2nd round)

Table tennis

discipline	Men
singles	Yi Ding (preliminary round) Werner Schlager (preliminary round)
Double	Yi Ding / Qianli Qian (preliminary round) Karl Jindrak / Werner Schlager (preliminary round)

Diving

discipline	Men	Women
3 m board	Richard Frece (14.)
10 m board	Richard Frece (12.)	Anja Richter (11.)

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1996 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )