Olympic Winter Games 2010 / Participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada with 81 athletes.

Austria ended these games with four gold and six silver and six bronze medals. Thus, these games were the third most successful in Austrian Olympic history after Turin 2006 (9-7-7) and Albertville 1992 (6-7-8). The total of 16 medals achieved represent the lowest value since Lillehammer 1994 (nine medals).

It is remarkable that Austrian athletes could only win in disciplines that went to Austria four years ago. With Andreas and Wolfgang Linger as well as Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler as part of the jumpers and Felix Gottwald and Mario Stecher as part of the Nordic combined team, six athletes were able to defend their titles, which until then was only possible for figure skater Karl Schäfer (gold 1932 and 1936 ) succeeded.

From an Austrian point of view, the disappointment of these games was the alpine ski men, who had won eight medals four years earlier and this time, for the first time ever, went completely empty-handed at the Olympic Games.

It was noticeable that Austria's athletes in Canada often only achieved ungrateful fourth places. Austria leads the "bad luck" ranking with nine fourth and seven fifth and sixth places, ahead of Russia (9-0-6) and Germany (8-8-7).

Nominations

The provisional Olympic team (84 active) was announced on January 25, 2010 at a press conference of the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC). The reduction to 81 athletes, 27 women and 54 men, took place on February 1, 2010.

Flag bearer

Entry of the Austrian team

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was Andreas Linger (Luge Olympic winner 2006 and later also 2010). When the Austrian athletes marched into the BC Place Stadium , he passed the Austrian flag on to his brother and luge partner Wolfgang . At the closing ceremony, the flag was carried by Nina Reithmayer , silver medalist in the women's luge race.

Medal table

rank	sport				total
1	Alpine skiing	1	1	2	4th
2	Luge	1	1	0	2
3	Ski jumping	1	0	2	3
4th	Nordic combination	1	0	1	2
5	biathlon	0	2	0	2
6th	Snowboard	0	1	1	2
7th	Freestyle skiing	0	1	0	1
total		4th	6th	6th	16

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Andreas , Wolfgang Linger	Sledding	Two-seater
Andrea Fischbacher	Alpine skiing	Super g
Wolfgang Loitzl , Andreas Kofler , Thomas Morgenstern , Gregor Schlierenzauer	Ski jumping	Team jumping
Bernhard Gruber , David Kreiner , Felix Gottwald , Mario Stecher	Nordic combination	Team competition

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Christoph Sumann	biathlon	Chase races
Nina Reithmayer	Sledding	Single seater
Andreas Matt	Freestyle skiing	Ski cross
Simon Eder , Daniel Mesotitsch , Dominik Landertinger , Christoph Sumann	biathlon	Relay (4 × 7.5 km)
Marlies shield	Alpine skiing	slalom
Benjamin Karl	Snowboard	Parallel giant slalom

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Gregor Schlierenzauer	Ski jumping	Single jumping normal hill
Gregor Schlierenzauer	Ski jumping	Individual jumping large hill
Elisabeth Görgl	Alpine skiing	Departure
Elisabeth Görgl	Alpine skiing	Giant slalom
Bernhard Gruber	Nordic combination	Gundersen large hill
Marion Kreiner	Snowboard	Parallel giant slalom

Participants by sport

biathlon

Men Tobias Eberhard (replacement) Simon Eder 10 km sprint: 11th place 12.5 km pursuit: 4th place 20 km individual: 6th place 15 km mass start: 25th place 4 × 7.5 km relay: silver Dominik Landertinger 10 km sprint: 34th place 12.5 km pursuit: 14th place 20 km individual: 23rd place 15 km mass start: 7th place 4 × 7.5 km relay: silver Daniel Mesotitsch 10 km sprint: 45th place 12.5 km pursuit: 41st place 20 km individual: 9th place 15 km mass start: 5th place 4 × 7.5 km relay: silver Friedrich Pinter (replacement) Christoph Sumann 10 km sprint: 12th place 12.5 km pursuit: silver 20 km individual: 8th place 15 km mass start: 4th place 4 × 7.5 km relay: silver

bob

Men Christian Hackl Two-man bobsleigh: 18th place Four-man bobsleigh: no longer started for the 2nd run Martin Lachkovics Jürgen Loacker Two-man bobsleigh: 18th place Jürgen Mayer Two-man bobsleigh: disqualified Four-man bobsleigh: no longer started for the 2nd run Wolfgang Stampfer Two-man bobsleigh: disqualified Four-man bobsleigh: no longer started in the 2nd run (fall in the 1st run) Johannes Wipplinger Four-man bobsleigh: no longer started for the 2nd run

figure skating

Athletes	Short program		Freestyle		Points	rank
	Points	rank	Points	rank
Men's
Viktor Pfeifer	60.88	23.	115.05	20th	175.93	21st
Ladies
Miriam Ziegler	43.84	26th	eliminated			26th

Speed ​​skating

Women Anna Rokita 3000 m: 16th place 1500 m: 28th place

Freestyle skiing

Mogul women Margarita Marbler , 6th place Ski cross women Katharina Gutensohn , 26th place Karin Huttary , 4th place Andrea Limbacher , 24th place Katrin Ofner , 23rd place Ski cross men Patrick Koller , 30th place Andreas Matt , silver Markus Wittner , 15th place Thomas Zangerl , 18th place

Nordic combination

• Christoph Bieler

  Single competition normal hill: 25th place

  Individual competition large hill: 10th place

• Felix Gottwald

  Single competition normal hill: 14th place

  Team competition: gold

  Individual competition large hill: 17th place

• Bernhard Gruber

  Team competition: gold

  Individual competition large hill: bronze

• David Kreiner

  Single competition normal hill: 15th place

  Team competition: gold

• Mario Stecher

  Single competition normal hill: 5th place

  Team competition: gold

  Individual competition large hill: 8th place

Sledding

Women Veronika Halder , 12th place Nina Reithmayer , silver Men singles Wolfgang Kindl , 9th place Daniel Pfister , 6th place Manuel Pfister , 10th place Men two-seater Andreas Linger , Wolfgang Linger , gold Markus Schiegl , Tobias Schiegl , 8th place

Short track

Women Veronika Windisch 1500 m: 25th place 1000 m: 22nd place

skeleton

Men Matthias Guggenberger , 8th place

Alpine skiing

Women Eva-Maria Brem Giant slalom: 7th place Anna Fenninger Departure: 25th place Super combination: 16th place Super-G: 16th place Andrea Fischbacher Departure: 4th place Super-G: gold Elisabeth Görgl Departure: bronze Super combination: 18th place Super-G: 5th place Giant slalom: bronze Slalom: 7th place Michaela Kirchgasser Super combination: 9th place Giant slalom: 15th place Slalom: eliminated in the 2nd round Regina Mader Departure: 14th place Marlies shield Slalom: silver Nicole Schmidhofer Super-G: DNF Kathrin Zettel Super combination: 4th place Giant slalom: 5th place Slalom: 13th place

Men Romed Baumann Super combination: eliminated in the descent Giant slalom: 5th place Hans Grugger Departure: 22nd place Reinfried Herbst Slalom: 10th place Marcel Hirscher Giant slalom: 4th place Slalom: 5th place Klaus Kroell Departure: 9th place Mario Matt Manfred pillory Slalom: eliminated in the 1st round Benjamin Raich Super-G: 14th place Super combination: 6th place Giant slalom: 6th place Slalom: 4th place Hannes Reichelt Mario Scheiber Departure: 4th place Super-G: 20th place Philipp Schörghofer Giant slalom: 12th place Georg Streitberger Super-G: 17th place Super combination: did not start in slalom Michael Walchhofer Departure: 10th place Super-G: 21st place

Cross-country skiing

Women Kateřina Smutná Sprint (classic): 11th place 15 km pursuit (each 7.5 km classic and freestyle): 29th place 30 km classic mass start: 33rd place

Ski jumping

• Martin Koch
• Andreas Kofler

  Single jumping normal hill: 19th place

  Single jumping large hill: 4th place

  Team jumping large hill: Gold

• Wolfgang Loitzl

  Individual jumping normal hill: 11th place

  Individual jumping large hill: 10th place

  Team jumping large hill: Gold

• Thomas Morgenstern

  Single jumping normal hill: 8th place

  Single jumping large hill: 5th place

  Team jumping large hill: Gold

• Gregor Schlierenzauer

  Single jumping normal hill: bronze

  Individual jumping large hill: bronze

  Team jumping large hill: Gold

Snowboard

Parallel giant slalom women Doris Günther , 9th place Marion Kreiner , bronze Ina Meschik , 6th place Claudia Riegler , 7th place Snowboardcross women Doresia Krings , 10th place Maria Ramberger , 16th place Manuela Riegler , not at the start

Parallel giant slalom men Siegfried Grabner , eliminated in the 1st qualification run Benjamin Karl , silver Andreas Prommegger , 9th place Ingemar Walder , 29th place Snowboardcross men Mario Fuchs , 7th place Lukas Grüner , 6th place Markus Schairer , 23rd place

Web links

• Austrian Olympic Committee

Individual evidence

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