Summer Paralympics 2016 / Participant (Austria)
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Austria sent a team of 27 athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro . The team consisted of 6 women and 21 men. In the Parakanu discipline, which was held for the first time at the Paralympics, an athlete represented Austria.
Participants by sport
athletics
Women
- Natalija Eder : bronze medal
Men
- Mario Bauer
- Thomas Geierspichler
- Bil Marinkovic
- Günther Matzinger : bronze medal
Para canoe
Men
- Markus Swoboda : Silver medal
Cycling
Men
- Walter Ablinger : Silver medal in the individual time trial
- Wolfgang Eibeck
- Thomas Frühwirth : Silver medal in the individual time trial
- Wolfgang Schattauer
horse riding
Women
Men
- Thomas Haller
- Martin Knauder
- Pepo Puch : with Fontainenoir gold medal in the individual evaluation (championship test), silver medal in the freestyle
Wheelchair tennis
Men
rowing
Women
Men
swim
Women
Men
- Andreas Daniel Onea : bronze medal 100 m breaststroke
sailing
Men
Table tennis
Women
Men
- Stanislaw Fraczyk
- Krisztian Gardos : bronze medal in table tennis singles
- Egon Kramminger
Individual evidence
- ^ Para-Equipe on the way to Rio , Austrian Equestrian Federation , August 24, 2016; accessed on September 4, 2016