Austria at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Austria competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
| Austria at the 1968 Winter Olympics | |
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| IOC code | AUT |
| NOC | Austrian Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Grenoble | |
| Competitors | 76 (63 men, 13 women) in 10 sports |
| Flag bearer | Emmerich Danzer (figure skating) |
| Medals Ranked 5th |
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| Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Medalists
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
 Gold | Olga Pall | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
| Gold | Wolfgang Schwarz | Figure skating | Men's singles |
| Gold | Manfred Schmid | Luge | Men's individual |
 Silver | Herbert Huber | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
| Silver | Erwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler Herbert Gruber Josef Eder | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| Silver | Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Silver | Reinhold Bachler | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill |
 Bronze | Heini Meßner | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
| Bronze | Alfred Matt | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
| Bronze | Christl Haas | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
| Bronze | Baldur Preiml | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill |
Alpine skiing
- Men
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Egon Zimmermann | Downhill | 2:02.55 | 13 | ||||
| Gerhard Nenning | 2:02.31 | 9 | |||||
| Karl Schranz | 2:01.89 | 5 | |||||
| Heini Meßner | 2:01.93 | 4 | |||||
| Werner Bleiner | Giant Slalom | 1:46.56 | 16 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Gerhard Nenning | 1:46.47 | 15 | 1:47.14 | 4 | 3:33.61 | 8 | |
| Karl Schranz | 1:45.28 | 6 | 1:47.80 | 8 | 3:33.08 | 6 | |
| Heini Meßner | 1:45.16 | 5 | 1:46.67 | 3 | 3:31.83 | | |
- Men's slalom
| Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Final | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
| Karl Schranz | 52.56 | 1 QF | – | – | DSQ | – | 49.53 | 1 | DSQ | – |
| Heini Meßner | 51.76 | 1 QF | – | – | 52.32 | 27 | 51.83 | 14 | 1:44.15 | 14 |
| Alfred Matt | 50.99 | 1 QF | – | – | 49.68 | 2 | 50.41 | 5 | 1:40.09 | |
| Herbert Huber | 53.04 | 1 QF | – | – | 50.06 | 13 | 49.76 | 2 | 1:39.82 | |
- Women
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Gertrud Gabl | Downhill | 1:43.97 | 12 | ||||
| Brigitte Seiwald | 1:41.82 | 4 | |||||
| Christl Haas | 1:41.41 | | |||||
| Olga Pall | 1:40.87 | | |||||
| Lisi Pall | Giant Slalom | 2:00.91 | 27 | ||||
| Brigitte Seiwald | 1:57.26 | 11 | |||||
| Gertrud Gabl | 1:56.85 | 9 | |||||
| Olga Pall | 1:55.61 | 5 | |||||
| Gertrud Gabl | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Olga Pall | 43.59 | 16 | 47.52 | 9 | 1:31.11 | 9 | |
| Bernadette Rauter | 43.34 | 14 | 47.10 | 8 | 1:30.44 | 8 | |
| Brigitte Seiwald | 41.52 | 4 | 59.77 | 30 | 1:41.29 | 24 | |
Biathlon
- Men
| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 km | Franz Vetter | 1'16:25.0 | 20 | 1'36:25.0 | 56 |
| Adolf Scherwitzl | 1'30:21.7 | 4 | 1'34:21.7 | 50 | |
| Horst Schneider | 1'24:49.6 | 9 | 1'33:49.6 | 47 | |
| Paul Ernst | 1'25:47.9 | 6 | 1'31:47.9 | 40 |
- 1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
| Athletes | Race | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
| Paul Ernst Adolf Scherwitzl Horst Schneider Franz Vetter |
10 | 2'33:47.1 | 11 |
- 2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.
Bobsleigh
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| AUT-1 | Erwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler |
Two-man | 1:11.27 | 7 | 1:11.26 | 3 | 1:10.72 | 3 | 1:11.88 | 7 | 4:45.13 | 4 |
| AUT-2 | Max Kaltenberger Fritz Dinkhauser |
Two-man | 1:11.34 | 9 | 1:12.15 | 9 | 1:11.00 | 5 | 1:12.14 | 8 | 4:46.63 | 8 |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| AUT-1 | Erwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler Herbert Gruber Josef Eder |
Four-man | 1:10.08 | 2 | 1:07.40 | 2 | 2:17.48 | |
| AUT-2 | Manfred Hofer Hans Ritzl Fritz Dinkhauser Karl Pichler |
Four-man | 1:10.90 | 9 | 1:09.12 | 15 | 2:20.02 | 13 |
Cross-country skiing
- Men
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 15 km | Walter Failer | 54:12.5 | 51 |
| Ernst Pühringer | 53:23.0 | 47 | |
| Heinrich Wallner | 52:53.6 | 42 | |
| Andreas Janc | 51:29.8 | 31 | |
| 30 km | Hansjörg Farbmacher | 1'49:43.3 | 50 |
| Franz Vetter | 1'45:11.2 | 40 | |
| Ernst Pühringer | 1'44:51.0 | 38 | |
| 50 km | Franz Vetter | 2'43:51.1 | 34 |
| Andreas Janc | 2'32:32.2 | 13 | |
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Heinrich Wallner Franz Vetter Ernst Pühringer Andreas Janc |
2'22:29.4 | 13 |
Figure skating
- Men
| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Günter Anderl | 20 | 23 | 1574,7 | 193 | 23 |
| Emmerich Danzer | 4 | 1 | 1873.0 | 29 | 4 |
| Wolfgang Schwarz | 1 | 2 | 1904.1 | 13 | |
- Women
| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisabeth Nestler | 26 | 21 | 1562.6 | 2089 | 23 |
| Elisabeth Mikula | 17 | 19 | 1612.5 | 164 | 18 |
| Beatrix Schuba | 3 | 12 | 1773.2 | 51 | 5 |
Ice hockey
Consolation round
Teams in this group play for 9th-14th places. Austria entered in this round, from the start they did not play for the medals.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Yugoslavia |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 10 |
| 10 |  Japan |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 8 |
| 11 |  Norway |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 6 |
| 12 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Romania |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | Austria |
5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 27 | 2 |
| 14 |  France |
5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 32 | 0 |
Romania – Austria 3:2 (2:1, 1:1, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Fagarasi, Calamar, Mois – Schupp, Samonig.
Yugoslavia – Austria 6:0 (2:0, 2:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Ivo Jan 3, Roman Smolej, Tisler, Klinar.
France – Austria 2:5 (0:1, 2:3, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Faucomprez, Caux – Puschnig 2, Kirchbaumer, St. John, Schupp.
Norway – Austria 5:4 (3:1, 2:1, 0:2)
Goalscorers: Dalsören 2, Bjölbak, Olsen, Hansen – Schupp 2, Weingärtner, St. John.
Japan – Austria 11:1 (1:0, 6:0, 4:1)
Goalscorers: Itoh 2, Okajima 2, Hikigi 2, Araki, Kudo, Takashima, Toriyabe, Iwamoto – Puschnig.
Contestants
13. AUSTRIA
Goaltenders: Franz Schilcher, Karl Pregl
Defence: Gerd Schager, Gerhard Felfernig, Josef Mössmer, Hermann Erhard, Gerhard Hausner
Forwards: Dieter Kalt, Adelbert St. John, Josef Puschnig, Josef Schwitzer, Heinz Schupp, Walter König, Heinz Knoflach, Klaus Weingartner, Klaus Kirchbaumer, Günter Burkhart, Paul Samonig
Luge
- Men
| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
| Peter Kretauer | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Helmut Thaler | 58.42 | 14 | 59.03 | 16 | 58.60 | 14 | 2:56.05 | 14 |
| Josef Feistmantl | 57.78 | 6 | 58.06 | 5 | 57.73 | 4 | 2:53.27 | 5 |
| Manfred Schmid | 57.16 | 1 | 57.73 | 3 | 57.59 | 2 | 2:52.48 | |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
| Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch |
48.16 | 2 | 48.18 | 2 | 1:36.34 | |
| Josef Feistmantl Wilhelm Bichl |
48.81 | 6 | 49.30 | 10 | 1:38.11 | 7 |
- Women
| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
| Elfriede Wäger | 51.93 | 18 | 50.44 | 12 | 52.04 | 17 | 2:34.41 | 15 |
| Marlene Korthals | 49.72 | 9 | 50.31 | 8 | 51.30 | 12 | 2:31.33 | 10 |
| Leni Thurner | 49.64 | 6 | 50.15 | 7 | 50.71 | 7 | 2:30.50 | 9 |
Nordic combined
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Helmut Voggenberger | Individual | 67.5 | 66.0 | 181.9 | 32 | 54:57.2 | 160.07 | 37 | 341.97 | 35 |
| Waldemar Heigenhauser | 69.0 | 68.5 | 197.2 | 21 | 55:00.4 | 159.49 | 38 | 356.69 | 34 | |
| Ulli Öhlböck | 64.0 | 64.0 | 168.8 | 36 | 52:23.9 | 189.20 | 23 | 358.00 | 32 | |
Ski jumping
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
| Sepp Lichtenegger | Normal hill | 72.5 | 98.3 | 70.0 | 94.8 | 193.1 | 29 |
| Max Golser | 74.0 | 102.7 | 65.0 | 83.3 | 186.0 | 36 | |
| Reinhold Bachler | 77.5 | 107.8 | 76.0 | 106.4 | 214.2 | | |
| Baldur Preiml | 80.0 | 113.8 | 72.5 | 98.8 | 212.6 | | |
| Baldur Preiml | Large hill | 80.5 | 66.1 | 87.0 | 86.2 | 152.3 | 48 |
| Sepp Lichtenegger | 91.0 | 90.8 | 91.0 | 93.8 | 184.6 | 28 | |
| Max Golser | 95.0 | 98.9 | 91.5 | 91.5 | 190.4 | 22 | |
| Reinhold Bachler | 98.5 | 107.3 | 95.0 | 103.4 | 210.7 | 6 | |
Speed skating
- Men
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 500 m | Otmar Braunecker | 42.1 | 26 |
| 1500 m | Erich Korbel | 2:15.7 | 44 |
| Hermann Strutz | 2:14.8 | 40 | |
| Otmar Braunecker | 2:14.4 | 39 | |
| 5000 m | Erich Korbel | 8:20.8 | 37 |
| Hermann Strutz | 7:53.3 | 16 | |
| 10,000 m | Hermann Strutz | 16:24.9 | 17 |
References
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