1972 Winter Olympics / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan with a delegation of 40 athletes, 29 men and 11 women.

Since 1924 it was Austria's eleventh participation in the Winter Olympic Games .

Flag bearer

Luge athlete Manfred Schmid carried the Austrian flag during the opening ceremony in the Makomanai Stadium .

Medals

With a recovered gold, two silver and two bronze medals, the Austrian team was ranked 9 in the medals table .

gold

• Beatrix Schuba : Figure skating, women

silver

• Annemarie Moser-Pröll : Alpine skiing, women's downhill
• Annemarie Moser-Pröll: Alpine skiing, women's giant slalom

bronze

• Wiltrud Drexel : Alpine skiing, women's giant slalom
• Heinrich Messner : Alpine skiing, men's downhill

Participants by sport

Alpine skiing

Women

• Annemarie Moser-Pröll

  Departure: - 1: 37.00 min

  Giant slalom: - 1: 30.75 min

  Slalom: 5th place - 1: 34.03 min

• Wiltrud Drexel

  Giant slalom: - 1: 32.35 min

  Slalom: DNF

• Gertrud Gabl

  Giant Slalom: DNF

  Slalom: DNF

• Monika Kaserer

  Departure: 30th place - 1: 42.59 min

  Giant slalom: 13th place - 1: 33.42 min

  Slalom: 7th place - 1: 34.36 min

• Bernadette Rauter

  Downhill: 9th place - 1: 39.84 min

• Brigitte Totschnig

  Downhill: 15th place - 1: 40.73 min

Men

• Heinrich Messner

  Departure: - 1: 52.40 min

• Werner Bleiner

  Downhill: 18th place - 3: 15.96 min

• Karl Cordin

  Downhill: 7th place - 1: 53.32 min

• Josef Loidl

  Downhill: 9th place - 1: 53.71 min

  Giant slalom: 12th place - 3: 14.65 min

  Slalom: DNF

• Alfred Matt

  Slalom: 14th place - 1: 53.68 min

• Reinhard Tritscher

  Downhill: 9th place - 1: 53.71 min

  Giant slalom: 12th place - 3: 14.65 min

  Slalom: DSQ

• David Zwilling

  Giant slalom: 7th place - 3: 12.32 min

  Slalom: 7th place - 1: 51.97 min

bob

Two-man bobsleigh

• Herbert Gruber / Josef Oberhauser (AUT I)

  8th place - 5: 1.60 min

• Werner Delle Karth / Fritz Sperling (AUT II)

  13th place - 5: 05.35 min

Four-man bobsleigh

• Utz Chwalla / Josef Eder / Herbert Gruber / Josef Oberhauser (AUT I)

  6th place - 4: 45.77 min

• Walter Delle Karth jun. / Werner Delle Karth / Werner Moser / Fritz Sperling (AUT II)

  7th place - 4: 46.66 min

figure skating

Ladies

• Trixi Schuba

  

• Sonja Balun

  17th place

Men's

• Günter Anderl

  15th place

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Otmar Braunecker

  500 m: 23rd place - 42.14 sec

  1500 m: 31st place - 2: 14.88 min

Sledding

Women

• Margit Graf

  16th place - 3: 06.29 min

• Antonia Mayr

  14th place - 3: 04.60 min

• Angelika Schafferer

  11th place - 3: 04.06 min

Men, single-seaters

• Josef Feistmantl

  10th place - 3: 31.32 min

• Franz Schachner

  23rd place - 3: 35.62 min

• Manfred Schmid

  7th place - 3: 30.05 min

• Rudolf Schmid

  16th place - 3: 33.76 min

Men, two-seaters

• Manfred Schmid / Ewald Walch

  7th place - 1: 29.75 min

• Franz Schachner / Rudolf Schmid

  9th place - 1: 30.68 min

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Josef Hauser

  30 km: DNF

  4 × 10 km relay: DNF

• Herbert Wachter

  15 km: 42nd place - 49: 44.13 min

  30 km: 33rd place - 1: 44: 45.67 h

  4 × 10 km relay: DNF

• Heinrich Wallner

  15 km: 38th place - 49: 17.97 min

  30 km: 48th place - 1: 48: 05.42 h

  4 × 10 km relay: DNF

• Ulli Öhlböck

  4 × 10 km relay: DNF

Ski jumping

• Reinhold Bachler

  Normal hill: 29th place - 201.6 points

  Large hill: 24th place - 179.2 points

• Max Golser

  Normal hill: 36th place - 195.8 points

  Large hill: 43rd place - 153.6 points

• Rudi Wanner

  Normal hill: 26th place - 205.0 points

  Large hill: 46th place - 152.3 points

Nordic combination

• Ulli Öhlböck

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 37th place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic team 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )