Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Participant (Austria)

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The Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC) nominated the Austrian team for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing on July 21, 2008 . The team was sworn in by Federal President Heinz Fischer on July 22, 2008 . A total of 71 athletes from Austria traveled to Beijing . The largest line-up is provided by the swimming federation with twelve swimmers, three water divers and two synchronized swimmers, followed by the sailors and the beach volleyball teams.

Flag bearer

The flag of Austria was carried by Hans-Peter Steinacher during the opening ceremony . Together with Roman Hagara (flag bearer in Athens 2004) he had won the gold medal in tornado sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens .

Medals

Medal table

Medal table Austria
space	sport				total
1	Judo	-	1	-	1
2	canoe	-	-	1	1
	swim	-	-	1	1
total		-	1	2	3

Medalist

From left to right: Violetta Oblinger-Peters, Ludwig Paischer and Mirna Jukic with their medals from Beijing

silver

Ludwig Paischer

Judo

Super light weight (up to 60 kg) men

bronze

Violetta Oblinger-Peters	canoe	Slalom kayak-one women
Mirna Jukić	swim	100 meters breast women

Participants by sport

fencing

• Roland Schlosser

  Foil, gentlemen

Judo

• Sabrina Filzmoser

  Women, lightweight (up to 57 kg)

• Claudia Heill

  Women, medium weight (up to 63 kg)

• Ludwig Paischer

  Men, super light weight (up to 60 kg): silver

canoe

Canoe race

• Yvonne Schuring / Viktoria Schwarz

  Women, two-person kayak 500 m

Canoe slalom

• Violetta Oblinger-Peters

  Women, kayak single: bronze

• Helmut Oblinger

  Men, Kayak One

athletics

• Eva-Maria Gradwohl

  Women, marathon

• Gerhard Mayer

  Men, discus throw

• Günther Weidlinger

  Men, 10,000 m

Cycling

Mountain bike

• Elisabeth Osl

  Women

• Christoph Soukup

  Men

Street

• Monika Schachl

  Women, street races

• Christiane Soeder

  Women, road races, individual time trials

• Christian Pfannberger

  Men, street races

• Thomas Rohrgger

  Men, street races

horse riding

• Victoria Max-Theurer

  Dressage singles

• Harald Ambros

  Versatility single

shoot

• Thomas Farnik

  Men, air rifle 10 m, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters

• Mario Knögler

  Men, small caliber lying 50 meters, small caliber three-position combat 50 meters

• Christian planner

  Men, air rifle 10 m, small caliber lying 50 meters

swim

Men David Brandl 400 m freestyle Florian Janistyn 1500 m freestyle Dinko Jukić 200 m butterfly 200 m layers 400 m layers Dominik Koll 200 m freestyle 400 m freestyle Hunor Mate 100 m chest 200 m chest Maxim Podoprigora 200 m chest Markus Rogan 100 m back 200 m back Sebastian Stoss 200 m back David Brandl 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Florian Janistyn Dominik Koll Markus Rogan

Women Nina Dittrich 200 m butterfly 200 m layers Mirna Jukić 100 m chest bronze 200 m chest Birgit Koschischek 100 m butterfly 100 m freestyle Jördis Steinegger 400 m layers 200 m freestyle 400 m freestyle 800 m freestyle

sailing

Men
Andreas Geritzer	laser
Johann Liedel	Windsurfing RS: X
Florian Reichstädter	470s
Matthias Schmid
Christian Nehammer	star
Hans Spitzauer
Women
Sylvia Vogl	470s
Carolina Flatscher
Open
Nico Delle Karth	49er
Niko Resch
Roman Hagara	tornado
Hans-Peter Steinacher

Synchronized swimming

• Nadine Brandl / Lisbeth Mahn

  Women, duet

tennis

After Tamira Paszek had beaten world number one Ana Ivanović at a tournament in Montreal on August 1, 2008 , both the Austrian Tennis Association and the International Tennis Federation campaigned for their subsequent nomination. This was rejected by the ÖOC on the grounds that the nomination deadline had already expired and Paszek's performance in the past year would not qualify her for participation in the Olympics. Paszek had achieved the international limits of the IOC for qualification, but not the stricter ones of the ÖOC, which, however, also applied to the three tennis players sent to Beijing by the ÖOC.

Men
Jürgen Melzer	singles
Jürgen Melzer	Double
Julian Knowle
Women
Sybille Bammer	singles

Table tennis

• Veronika Heine ; Liu Jia ; Li Qiangbing

  Women, team

• Liu Jia ; Li Qiangbing

  Women, individual / team

• Robert Gardos ; Werner Schlager ; Chen Weixing ; Daniel Habesohn (replacement)

  Men, individual / team

Triathlon

• Women
  • Kate Allen
  • Eva Dollinger
  • Tania Haiböck
• Men
  • Simon Ágoston

do gymnastics

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

• Caroline Weber

  Women, singles

volleyball

beach volleyball

The nomination of the beach volleyball duo Sara Montagnolli / Sabine Swoboda was withdrawn by the ÖOC after ÖOC doctor Alfred Engel refused to take responsibility for any damage to health due to an acute back injury Swoboda. The quota place was returned to the IOC and enabled the participation of the Swiss Simone Kuhn / Lea Schwer .

• Doris Schwaiger / Stefanie Schwaiger

  Women

• Clemens Doppler / Peter Gartmayer

  Men

• Florian Gosch / Alexander Horst

  Men

Diving

• Veronika Kratochwil

  Ladies, 3-meter board

• Anja Richter

  Ladies, tower

• Constantin Blaha

  Men, 3-meter board

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ORF : three-set victory against Ivanovic  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Die Presse : Tennis: Tamira Paszek considering a change of nation , August 5, 2008
3. ^ ORF : Montagnolli / Swoboda definitely not in Beijing

Web links

• Austrian Olympic Committee: Official team brochure Beijing 2008
• Austrian Olympic team 2008 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )