Austria at the 1968 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	AUT
Nocname:	Austrian Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1968
Website:
Location:	Grenoble
Competitors:	76 (63 men, 13 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Emmerich Danzer (figure skating)
Rank:	5
Gold:	3
Silver:	4
Bronze:	4
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Austria competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Women's downhill
			Men's singles
			Men's individual
			Men's slalom
			Four-man
			Men's doubles
			Men's normal hill
			Men's giant slalom
			Men's slalom
			Women's downhill
			Men's normal hill

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

See main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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		5	5	0	0	33	9	10
10		5	4	1	0	27	12	8
11		5	3	2	0	15	15	6
12		5	2	3	0	22	23	4
13		5	1	4	0	12	27	2
14		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

See main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 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

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

See main article: Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com