Austria at the 1976 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	AUT
Nocname:	Austrian Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1976
Website:
Location:	Innsbruck
Competitors:	77 (63 men, 14 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Franz Klammer (alpine skiing)
Rank:	7
Gold:	2
Silver:	2
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Austria was the host nation for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. It was the second time that Austria had hosted the Winter Games, after the 1964 Winter Olympics, also in Innsbruck.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's downhill
			Men's Large Hill
			Women's downhill
			Men's Large Hill
			Doubles
			Men's Normal Hill

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Steiner	Downhill					DNF	–
Klaus Eberhard						1:48.45	19
Sepp Walcher						1:47.45	9
Franz Klammer						1:45.73
Thomas Hauser	Giant slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Franz Klammer		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Alois Morgenstern		1:48.33	18	DNF	–	DNF	–
Hansi Hinterseer		1:46.46	7	1:47.34	19	3:33.80	14
Hansi Hinterseer	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Anton Steiner		1:06.02	27	1:08.88	21	2:14.90	22
Alois Morgenstern		1:01.61	7	1:05.37	8	2:07.18	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Irmgard Lukasser	Downhill					1:49.18	12
Monika Kaserer						1:48.81	9
Nicola Spieß						1:47.71	4
Brigitte Totschnig						1:46.68
Irmgard Lukasser	Giant slalom					1:35.38	29
Regina Sackl						1:31.78	19
Brigitte Totschnig						1:31.48	16
Monika Kaserer						1:30.49	6
Monika Kaserer	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Regina Sackl		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Nicola Spieß		n/a	?	DNF	–	DNF	–
Brigitte Totschnig		49.17	14	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^1	Rank
20 km	Klaus Farbmacher	1'20:31.07	16	1'36:31.07	49
	Franz-Josef Weber	1'16:14.92	10	1'26:14.92	37
	Alfred Eder	1'14:42.52	8	1'22:42.52	21

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 1976 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	Dieter Delle Karth Franz Köfel	Two-man	56.52	6	56.76	7	56.47	4	56.62	5	3:46.37	6
AUT-2	Fritz Sperling Andreas Schwab	Two-man	56.06	1	56.19	2	56.73	6	56.76	7	3:45.74	4

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
AUT-1	Fritz Sperling Kurt Oberhöller Gerd Zaunschirm Dieter Gehmacher	Four-man	55.51	8	55.62	8	56.05	6	56.61	5	3:43.79	7
AUT-2	Werner Delle Karth Andreas Schwab Heinz Krenn Otto Breg Franz Köfel	Four-man	54.66	2	55.80	10	56.10	7	56.65	6	3:43.21	6

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Josef Vogel	48:42.32	48
	Werner Vogel	48:17.47	43
	Rudolf Horn	48:10.52	42
	Herbert Wachter	46:46.39	19
30 km	Franz Gattermann	1'43:04.88	58
	Werner Vogel	1'40:16.10	51
	Reinhold Feichter	1'37:43.73	39
	Herbert Wachter	1'36:28.48	32
50 km	Heinrich Wallner	3'03:58.19	43
	Reinhold Feichter	2'50:53.00	35
	Werner Vogel	2'47:05.63	26
	Herbert Wachter	2'46:40.25	24

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Sylvia Schweiger	20:17.43	42
	Gertrud Gasteiger	20:14.94	41
	Barbara Stöckl	18:49.16	38
10 km	Gertrud Gasteiger	37:35.77	44
	Sylvia Schweiger	36:32.93	41
	Barbara Stöckl	35:28.99	40

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Pairs

Ice Dancing

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

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Consolation Round

Rank		Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
7		5	4	1	0	23	15	8
8		5	3	2	0	18	14	6
9		5	3	2	0	20	18	6
10		5	3	2	0	22	19	6
11		5	2	3	0	24	22	4
12		5	0	5	0	19	38	0

• Austria 6-2 Bulgaria
• Austria 3-2 Japan
• Austria 3-4 Romania
• Austria 3-5 Switzerland
• Austria 3-1 Yugoslavia

Contestants Daniel Gritsch Franz Schilcher Walter Schneider Gerhard Hausner Johann Schuller Michael Herzog Günter Oberhuber Othmar Russ Max Moser Rudolf König Sepp Puschnig Franz Voves Josef Schwitzer Peter Zini Sepp Kriechbaum Alexander Sadjina Herbert Pöck Herbert Mörtl

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reinhold Sulzbacher	53.137	10	52.491	7	52.204	6	52.566	8	3:30.398	7
Manfred Schmid	52.973	8	52.073	3	52.113	5	52.352	6	3:29.511	5
Rudolf Schmid	52.933	7	53.806	15	52.361	8	52.319	5	3:31.419	9

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rudolf Schmid Franz Schachner	42.997	3	42.922	2	1:25.919
Manfred Schmid Reinhold Sulzbacher	43.035	4	43.389	6	1:26.424	5

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Angelika Schafferer	43.444	8	43.007	9	42.793	8	43.078	9	2:52.322	8
Margit Graf	43.094	6	42.790	5	42.555	4	43.020	8	2:51.459	6
Antonia Mayr	42.949	4	42.812	6	42.633	5	42.966	6	2:51.360	5

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Toni Innauer	Normal hill	80.5	115.6	81.0	117.9	233.5	7
Rudi Wanner		79.5	116.5	79.5	117.0	233.5	7
Reinhold Bachler		80.5	118.1	80.5	119.1	237.2	6
Karl Schnabl		82.5	121.8	81.5	120.2	242.0
Hans Wallner	Large hill	93.5	109.4	92.5	107.5	216.9	6
Reinhold Bachler		95.0	111.5	91.0	105.9	217.4	5
Karl Schnabl		97.5	117.5	97.0	117.3	234.8
Toni Innauer		102.5	126.5	91.0	106.4	232.9

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Heinz Steinberger	43.28	27
	Berend Schabus	42.33	26
1000 m	Berend Schabus	1:26.50	25
1500 m	Berend Schabus	2:15.41	29
	Ludwig Kronfuß	2:11.17	26
5000 m	Hubert Gundolf	8:29.34	29
	Ludwig Kronfuß	8:19.72	27
10,000 m	Hubert Gundolf	17:52.43	20

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com