Olympic Summer Games 2000 / Participant (Austria)

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The Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC) nominated on 23 August 2000 92 athletes (55 men and 37 women) to participate in the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney . The team was officially bid farewell to the Federal President Thomas Klestil in the Hofburg on August 31 .

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the shooter Wolfram Waibel Jr. who won a silver and bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and was Austria's most successful athlete.

Medals

Medal table

Medal table Austria
space	sport				total
1	sailing	2	-	-	2
2	athletics	-	1	-	1
total		2	1	-	3

Medalist

gold

Christoph Sieber	sailing	Windsurfing
Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher	sailing	tornado

silver

Stephanie Graf

athletics

800 m women

Participants by sport

beach volleyball

• Nik Berger / Oliver Stamm : Out in the round of 16

fencing

• Oliver Kayser

  Epee, men (individual)

  Epee, men (team)

• Michael Ludwig

  Foil, men (singles)

• Christoph Marik

  Epee, men (individual)

  Epee, men (team)

• Andrea Rentmeister

  Epee, women (individual)

• Marcus Robatsch

  Degen, gentlemen (team) - replacement, was not used

• Michael Switak

  Epee, men (individual)

  Epee, men (team)

• Joachim "Benny" Wendt

  Foil, men (singles)

Handball women

After no Austrian handball team competed at the 1996 Olympic Games , team coach Vinko Kandija again led a women's national team to the Summer Olympic Games in 2000. The team reached fifth place and consisted of the following 15 players:

• Stanka Bozovic
• Tatyana Dzhandzhgava
• Birgit Engl
• Ausra Fridrikas
• Laura Fritz
• Tanja Logvin
• Ariane Maier
• Svetlana Mugoša-Antić
• Doris Meltzer
• Iris Morhammer
• Steffi Ofenböck
• Natascha Rusnachenko
• Barbara Strass
• Rima Sypkus
• Sorina Teodorovic

Judo

• Franz Birkfellner

  Men, light heavyweight (up to 100 kg)

• Patrick Reiter

  Men, medium weight (up to 81 kg)

• Christoph Stangl

  Men, lightweight (up to 73 kg):

canoe

Canoe race

• Uschi Profanter

  Women, kayak single 500 m: 8th place

Canoe slalom

• Manuel Koehler

  Men, kayak single: 6th place

• Helmut Oblinger

  Men, kayak single: 4th place

• Violetta Oblinger-Peters

  Women, kayak single: 15th place

athletics

• Klaus Ambrosch

  Men, decathlon: 18th place

• Doris Auer

  Women, pole vault: 9th place

• Michael Buchleitner

  Men, marathon: 33rd place

• Valentina Fedyushina

  Women, shot put: 12th place

• Stephanie Graf

  Women, 800 m

• Gregor Högler

  Men, javelin throw: 17th place in qualification

• Linda Horvath

  Women, high jump: 25th place in qualification

• Sigrid Kirchmann

  Women, high jump

• Martin Lachkovics

  Gentlemen, 100 m

  Gentlemen, 200 m

• Elmar Lichtenegger

  Men, 110 m hurdles

• Karin Mayr

  Women, 100 m

  Women, 200 m

• Susanne Pumper

  Women, 5000 m

• Günther Weidlinger

  Men, 3000 m obstacle: 8th place

Cycling

train

• Michaela Brunngraber

  Women, points race: 15th place

• Roland Garber / Werner Riebenbauer

  Gentlemen, Madison: 5th place

• Franz Stocher

  Men, points race: 6th place

Street

• Matthias Buxhofer

  Men, road races: 51st place

• Gerrit Glomser

  Men, road races: 41st place

• René Haselbacher

  Gentlemen, street races

  Men, individual time trial: 34th place

• Thomas Mühlbacher

  Men, street races

• Peter Wrolich

  Men, road races: 23rd place

horse riding

• Anton-Martin Bauer

  Men, individual jumping: 26th place

• Peter Gmoser

  Men, dressage singles: 21st place

• Stefan Peter

  Men, dressage singles: 38th place

rowing

Men, quadruple sculls - 11th place

• Raphael Hartl
• Arnold Jonke
• Norbert Lambing
• Horst Nussbaumer

Men, LG four without - 9th place

• Helfried Jurtschitsch
• Martin Kobau
• Wolfgang Sigl
• Bernd Wakolbinger
• Sebastian Sageder - substitute, was not used

shoot

• Thomas Farnik

  Men, air rifle 10 m: 18th place

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 12th place

  Men, small caliber, lying 50 meters: 44th place

• Monika Haselsberger

  Women, air rifle 10 m: 9th place

• Mario Knögler

  Men, air rifle 10 m: 9th place

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 9th place

  Men, small caliber, lying 50 meters: 9th place

• Wolfram Waibel junior

  Men, air rifle 10 m: 18th place

  Men, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters: 12th place

swim

Men's Hannes Kalteis 400 m freestyle 42. 1500 m freestyle 25th Maxim Podoprigora 200 m chest 11. Markus Rogan 100 m back 33. 200 m back 27. Patrick Schmollinger 100 m chest 22nd Michael Windisch 200 m butterfly 28. 200 m layers 27. 400 m layers 26th Women Judith Draxler 50 m freestyle 31. 100 m freestyle 27. Elvira Fischer 100 m chest 24. 200 m chest 19th Petra Zahrl 200 m butterfly 23.

sailing

Men
Andreas Geritzer	laser	5.
Christoph Sieber	Windsurfing (Mistral)	1.
Women
Denise Cesky	Europe	20th
Open
Roman Hagara	tornado	1.
Hans-Peter Steinacher

Taekwondo

• Tuncay Çalışkan

  Men, featherweight: 4th place

tennis

Women - singles
Sylvia Plischke	1 round
Barbara Schett	Quarter finals
Patricia Wartusch	2nd round
Ladies - doubles
Barbara Schett	1 round
Patricia Wartusch

Table tennis

Men - singles
Thing yi	33rd place
Werner Schlager	Quarter finals
Men - doubles
Karl Jindrak	Quarter finals
Werner Schlager
Women - singles
Liu Jia	17th place
Women - doubles
Judith Herczig	17th place
Liu Jia

Triathlon

• Johannes Enzenhofer

  Men: 29th place

Diving

• Richard Frece

  Men, 3-meter board: 31st place

• Anja Richter-Libiseller

  Women, tower (singles): 7th place

• Marion Reiff

  Women, tower: 37th place

• Anja Richter Libiseller / Marion Reiff

  Women, tower doubles: 4th place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic Committee: Information from the ÖOC on the Olympic Games in Sydney
• Austrian Olympic team 2000 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )