Austria at the 1988 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	AUT
Nocname:	Austrian Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1988
Website:
Location:	Calgary
Competitors:	81 (66 men, 15 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Leonhard Stock (alpine skiing)
Rank:	6
Gold:	3
Silver:	5
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Austria competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Alpine skiing	9	8	17
Biathlon	5	–	5
Bobsleigh	8	–	8
Cross-country skiing	4	4	8
Figure skating	1	1	2
Ice hockey	23	–	23
Luge	6	1	7
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Speed skating	2	1	3
Total	66	15	81

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				17 February
				21 February
				22 February
				17 February
				21 February
				21 February
				25 February
				28 February
				20 February
				24 February

Alpine skiing

See main article: article and Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Günther Mader	Downhill			2:03.96	19
Anton Steiner				2:02.19	7
Gerhard Pfaffenbichler				2:02.02	5
Leonhard Stock				2:01.56	4
Leonhard Stock	Super-G			1:42.36	8
Günther Mader				1:41.96	5
Hubert Strolz				1:41.11	4
Helmut Mayer				1:40.96
Günther Mader	Giant Slalom	1:06.74	1:03.30	2:10.04	11
Helmut Mayer		1:06.32	1:02.77	2:09.09	7
Rudolf Nierlich		1:05.75	1:03.17	2:08.92	5
Hubert Strolz		1:05.05	1:02.36	2:07.41
Rudolf Nierlich	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Günther Mader		52.69	DNF	DNF	-
Thomas Stangassinger		52.42	DNF	DNF	-
Bernhard Gstrein		51.87	48.21	1:40.08	4

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Thomas Stangassinger	1:54.70	44.76	42.93	107.87	13
Bernhard Gstrein	1:50.20	43.17	42.65	43.45
Günther Mader	1:49.56	DNF	-	DNF	-
Hubert Strolz	1:48.51	44.56	42.75	36.55

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sigrid Wolf	Downhill			DNF	-
Anita Wachter				DNF	-
Elisabeth Kirchler				1:27.19	8
Petra Kronberger				1:27.03	6
Sylvia Eder	Super-G			1:22.39	25
Elisabeth Kirchler				1:21.16	15
Anita Wachter				1:20.36	5
Sigrid Wolf				1:19.03
Sigrid Wolf	Giant Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Petra Kronberger		1:02.41	1:09.90	2:12.31	14
Ulrike Maier		1:01.41	1:06.59	2:08.10	6
Anita Wachter		1:00.23	1:08.15	2:08.38	7
Anita Wachter	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Ulrike Maier		50.94	49.60	1:40.54	10
Roswitha Steiner		50.43	48.34	1:38.77	4
Ida Ladstätter		49.71	49.88	1:39.59	6

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Ulrike Maier	DNF	-	-	DNF	-
Sylvia Eder	1:19.68	42.03	43.88	92.86	12
Petra Kronberger	1:18.36	44.53	43.25	88.01	11
Anita Wachter	1:17.14	40.68	42.29	29.25

Biathlon

See main article: article and Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Alfred Eder	2	27:57.3	40
	Egon Leitner	2	27:42.4	37
	Bruno Hofstätter	1	27:02.8	23
	Franz Schuler	1	26:45.0	17

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Franz Schuler	55:24.5	8	1'03:24.5	36
	Egon Leitner	58:52.3	3	1'01:52.3	27
	Alfred Eder	55:39.7	6	1'01:39.7	26
	Bruno Hofstätter	57:05.1	4	1'01:05.1	24

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: article and Bobsleigh at the 1988 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	Ingo Appelt Harald Winkler	Two-man	57.22	2	59.83	12	1:00.00	5	59.44	9	3:56.49	5
AUT-2	Peter Kienast Christian Mark	Two-man	58.19	13	58.96	4	1:00.48	12	59.28	7	3:56.91	8

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
AUT-1	Peter Kienast Franz Siegl Christian Mark Kurt Teigl	Four-man	57.07	11	57.40	4	56.27	2	57.91	8	3:48.65	6
AUT-2	Ingo Appelt Josef Muigg Gerhard Redl Harald Winkler	Four-man	56.93	8	57.51	5	56.41	4	58.10	13	3:48.95	7

Cross-country skiing

See main article: article and Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Johann Standmann	46:04.1	42
	Alois Stadlober	45:38.5	36
	André Blatter	45:15.2	32
	Alois Schwarz	45:06.9	31
30 km C	Johann Standmann	1'34:24.8	44
	Alois Stadlober	1'32:00.0	33
	Alois Schwarz	1'29:34.4	18
50 km F	Alois Stadlober	DNF	-
	Alois Schwarz	2'17:03.5	41
	Johann Standmann	2'13:39.3	36
	André Blatter	2'10:43.6	19

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Hildegard Embacher	17:18.6	45
	Margot Kober	16:39.2	36
	Maria Theurl	16:36.7	34
	Cornelia Sulzer	16:09.7	20
10 km C	Maria Theurl	DNF	-
	Hildegard Embacher	34:53.2	42
	Margot Kober	32:22.2	34
	Cornelia Sulzer	32:17.1	26
20 km F	Margot Kober	DNF	-
	Hildegard Embacher	1'07:35.1	50
	Cornelia Sulzer	1'03:01.2	37

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

See main article: article and Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Ice Dancing

Ice hockey

See main article: article and Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Group B

Top three teams (shaded ones) entered the medal round.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
	5	5	0	0	32	10	10
align = left		5	4	1	0	19	12	8
	5	3	2	0	23	14	6
	5	2	3	0	27	27	4
	5	0	4	1	12	29	1
	5	0	4	1	11	32	1

• USA 10-6 Austria
• Soviet Union 8-1 Austria
• Austria 1-3 West Germany
• Austria 4-0 Czechoslovakia
• Austria 4-4 Norway

Game for 9th place

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Team Roster

• Rudolf König

• Gert Kompajn

• Silvester Szybisti

Luge

See main article: article and Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gerhard Sandbichler	46.911	14	46.990	15	DSQ	-	-	-	DSQ	-
Otto Mayregger	46.777	10	46.896	14	46.925	11	46.931	8	3:07.619	9
Markus Prock	46.637	8	46.632	4	47.637	22	46.829	5	3:07.735	11

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Georg Fluckinger Robert Manzenreiter	46.135	8	46.229	3	1:32.364	5
Gerhard Sandbichler Franz Lechleitner	46.771	14	46.691	9	1:33.462	12

Women

Nordic combined

See main article: article and Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

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

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Günther Csar	Individual	196.2	25	3:35.4	45:26.2	378.430	34
Klaus Ofner		208.9	11	2:10.7	43:26.3	396.410	22
Hansjörg Aschenwald		214.1	7	1:36.0	43:55.5	392.025	24
Klaus Sulzenbacher		228.5	1	0:00.0	39:46.5	429.375

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

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

Ski jumping

See main article: article and Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Ernst Vettori	Normal hill	79.5	94.8	76.0	86.7	181.5	24
Andreas Felder		80.5	96.9	81.0	95.2	192.1	12
Günther Stranner		83.5	98.7	78.0	87.9	186.6	20
Heinz Kuttin		87.0	105.3	80.5	94.4	199.7	6
Ernst Vettori	Large hill	103.0	94.1	96.5	82.5	176.6	28
Günther Stranner		112.0	106.7	94.5	78.2	184.9	20
Heinz Kuttin		112.0	108.2	98.5	85.3	193.5	12
Andreas Felder		113.5	110.3	103.0	93.6	203.9	6

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

See main article: article and Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Christian Eminger	39.70	34
	Michael Hadschieff	37.90	26
1000 m	Michael Hadschieff	1:13.84	6
1500 m	Michael Hadschieff	1:52.31
5000 m	Christian Eminger	6:57.22	20
	Michael Hadschieff	6:48.72	5
10,000 m	Christian Eminger	14:30.21	19
	Michael Hadschieff	13:56.11

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	41.38	19
1000 m	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	1:22.22	16
3000 m	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	4:27.56	14

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/AUT/editions/43 Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics