Olympic Winter Games 1956 / participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy , with a delegation of 60 athletes, including 50 men and ten women. The skier Toni Sailer was chosen as the flag bearer of the Austrian team for the opening ceremony, the "Blitz von Kitz" won a total of three gold medals and was the most successful Austrian athlete at these winter games as well as the first to win all alpine competitions.

Participants by sport

Alpine skiing

Women: Putzi Frandl Downhill: 13th place - 1: 51.0 min Giant slalom: - 1: 57.8 min Slalom: 5th place - 1: 57.9 min Thea Hochleitner Downhill: 7th place - 1: 47.9 min Giant slalom: - 1: 58.2 min Slalom: 12th place - 2: 01.0 min Hilde Hofherr Downhill: 4th place - 1: 47.3 min Slalom: 24th place - 2: 23.5 min Trude Klecker Departure: 12th place - 1: 50.6 min Giant slalom: 33rd place - 2: 08.5 min Regina Schöpf Giant slalom: 9th place - 2: 00.6 min Slalom: - 1: 55.4 min

Men's: Ernst Hinterseer Giant slalom: 6th place - 3: 08.5 min Anderl Molterer Departure: - 2: 56.2 min Giant slalom: - 3: 06.3 min Slalom: disqualified (1st run) Josl Rieder Departure: disqualified Slalom: disqualified (2nd run) Toni Sailer Departure: - 2: 52.2 min Giant slalom: - 3:00, 1 min Slalom: - 3: 14.7 min Othmar Schneider Slalom: 12th place - 3: 35.8 min Walter Schuster Departure: disqualified Giant slalom: - 3: 07.2 min

bob

Two-man bobsleigh: Paul Aste / Heinrich Isser (AUT I) 12th place - 5: 43.97 min Adolf Tonn / Karl Wagner (AUT II) 15th place - 5: 46.29 min

Four-man bobsleigh: Heinrich Isser / Fritz Rursch / Adolf Tonn / Karl Wagner (AUT I) 10th place - 5: 20.62 min Franz Dominik / Kurt Loserth / Karl Schwarzböck / Wilfried Thurner (AUT II) 7th place - 5: 18.29 min

ice Hockey

Men: 10th place

Adolf Hafner Wolfgang Jöchl Hermann Knoll Kurt Kurz Hans Mössmer Robert Nusser Franz Potucek Alfred Püls Hans Scarsini

Wilhelm Schmid Max Singewald Fritz Spielmann Gerhard Springer Konrad Staudinger Hans Wagner Walter Znenahlik Hans Zollner

figure skating

Women: Hanna Eigel 5th place Hanna Walter 7th place Ingrid Wendl

Men's: Norbert Felsinger 7th place

Couples: Liesel Ellend / Konrad Lienert 9th place Kurt Oppelt / Sissy Black

Speed ​​skating

Men's:

• Ernst Biel

  500 m: 37th place - 44.2 s

  1500 m: 51st place - 2: 23.5 min

• Kurt Eminger

  500 m: 41st place - 44.4 s

  1500 m: 38th place - 2: 19.0 min

  5000 m: 38th place - 8: 39.4 min

• Arthur Mannsbarth

  1500 m: 32nd place - 2: 17.4 min

  5000 m: 28th place - 8: 23.6 min

  10,000 m: 29th place - 17: 47.8 min

• Franz Offenberger

  500 m: 32nd place - 43.8 s

  1500 m: 31st place - 2: 17.3 min

  5000 m: 34th place - 8: 30.8 min

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

Men's:

• Hermann Mayr

  15 km: 39th place - 58: 04.0 min

  4 × 10 km relay: 11th place - 2:30:50 h

• Karl Rafreider

  15 km: 35th place - 54:51 min

  4 × 10 km relay: 11th place - 2:30:50 h

• Sepp Schneeberger

  15 km: 28th place - 54:21 min

  4 × 10 km relay: 11th place - 2:30:50 h

• Oskar Schulz

  15 km: 59th place - 59:56 min

  4 × 10 km relay: 11th place - 2:30:50 h

Ski jumping

• Sepp Bradl

  Normal hill: 12th place - 205.5 points

• Walter Habersatter

  Normal hill: 15th place - 201.5 points

• Otto Leodolter

  Normal hill: 30th place - 185.0 points

• Rudolf Schweinberger

  Normal hill: 19th place - 199.0 points

Nordic combination

• Willi Egger

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 16th place

• Leopold Kohl

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 17th place

• Josef Schiffner

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 11th place

Web link

• Austrian Olympic team 1956 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )