Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Austria)

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4th	1	1

Austria took 38 athletes in eight sports at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The athletes named by the Austrian Paralympic Committee were accompanied by other people, including coaches, doctors and supervisors. The flag bearer when the team moved in was wheelchair athlete Christoph Etzlstorfer .

Medals

Medal table

Medal table Austria
space	sport				total
1	athletics	2	0	1	3
1	Table tennis	1	0	0	1
1	Cycling	1	1	0	2
Total		4th	1	1	6th

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Andrea Scherney	athletics	Long jump (class F44) women
Andreas Vevera	Table tennis	Table tennis (individual TT 1) men
Wolfgang Schattauer	Cycling	Hand bike
Thomas Geierspichler	athletics	marathon

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Wolfgang Eibeck	Cycling

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Thomas Geierspichler	athletics	800 m

Participants by sport

athletics

Women

• Andrea Scherney

  Long jump (class F44): gold

Men

• Thomas Geierspichler
• Andreas Gratt
• Michael Linhart
• Bil Marinkovic
• Günther Matzinger
• Georg Carpenter

Cycling

Women

• Anita Ruetz

Men

• Wolfgang Dabernik
• Wolfgang Eibeck
• Christoph Etzlstorfer
• Manfred Gattringer
• Alexander Hohlrieder
• Manfred Putz
• Wolfgang Schattauer
• Erich Stauffer
• Elmar Sternath
• Helmut Winterleitner

horse riding

Men

• Thomas Haller

Wheelchair tennis

Men

• Martin Legner
• Thomas Mossier
• Harald Pfundner

shoot

Women

• Barbara Doppler

Men

• Hubert Aufschnaiter
• Werner Müller

swim

Men

• Andreas Daniel Onea
• Thomas Seidling

sailing

Men

• Edmund Rath
• Sven Reiger
• Helmut Seewald

Table tennis

Women

• Doris Mader

Men

• Manfred Dollmann
• Stanislaw Fraczyk
• Egon Kramminger
• Hans Ruep
• Peter Starl
• Günther Unger
• Andreas Vevera

Web links

• ÖPC @ Paralympics 2006 Torino. Austrian Paralympic Committee, accessed in 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ oepc.at, September 8, 2008, cadre of the ÖPC ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ List of flag bearers ( Memento from March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 13, 2008)
3. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 13, 2008)