Austria at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	AUT
Nocname:	Austrian Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1998
Website:
Location:	Nagano
Competitors:	96 (73 men, 23 women)
Sports:	12
Flagbearer:	Emese Hunyady (speed skating)
Rank:	8
Gold:	3
Silver:	5
Bronze:	9
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Austria competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				13 February
				16 February
				19 February
				11 February
				12 February
				16 February
				19 February
				20 February
				10 February
				11 February
				11 February
				11 February
				13 February
				13 February
				17 February
				21 February
				22 February

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	11	8	19
Biathlon	5	0	5
Bobsleigh	8	–	8
Cross-country skiing	5	2	7
Figure skating	0	1	1
Freestyle skiing	1	1	2
Ice hockey	22	0	22
Luge	5	3	8
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Ski jumping	5	–	5
Snowboarding	5	6	11
Speed skating	2	2	4
Total	73	23	96

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Hermann Maier	Downhill			DNF	-
Fritz Strobl				1:51.34	11
Andreas Schifferer				1:50.77	7
Hannes Trinkl				1:50.63
Stephan Eberharter	Super-G			DSQ	-
Andreas Schifferer				1:37.00	19
Hans Knauß				1:35.43
Hermann Maier				1:34.82
Hans Knauß	Giant Slalom	1:21.16	1:18.55	2:39.71	4
Stephan Eberharter		1:20.94	1:18.42	2:39.36
Christian Mayer		1:20.84	1:19.83	2:40.67	9
Hermann Maier		1:20.36	1:18.15	2:38.51
Mario Reiter	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Christian Mayer		56.37	54.72	1:51.09	5
Thomas Stangassinger		55.63	55.62	1:51.25	6
Thomas Sykora		55.06	55.62	1:50.68

Men's combined

Athlete	Slalom		Downhill	Total
	Time 1	Time 2	Time	Total time	Rank
Hermann Maier	50.37	45.53	DNF	DNF	-
Christian Mayer	49.30	45.75	1:35.06	3:10.11
Günther Mader	49.19	46.17	1:34.83	3:10.19	4
Mario Reiter	47.37	44.48	1:36.21	3:08.06

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Renate Götschl	Downhill			DNF	-
Michaela Dorfmeister				1:31.17	18
Stefanie Schuster				1:30.73	15
Alexandra Meissnitzer				1:29.84	8
Stefanie Schuster	Super-G			1:18.53	9
Renate Götschl				1:18.32	5
Alexandra Meissnitzer				1:18.09
Michaela Dorfmeister				1:18.03
Christiane Mitterwallner	Giant Slalom	1:23.10	1:35.36	2:58.46	20
Stefanie Schuster		1:21.40	1:35.01	2:56.41	15
Alexandra Meissnitzer		1:20.13	1:32.26	2:52.39
Ingrid Salvenmoser	Slalom	46.84	46.55	1:33.39	6
Sabine Egger		45.97	47.25	1:33.22	5

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Stefanie Schuster	1:30.10	36.25	35.76	2:42.25	4
Michaela Dorfmeister	1:30.10	DNF	-	DNF	-
Brigitte Obermoser	1:29.82	38.81	36.85	2:45.48	11
Renate Götschl	1:29.34	DNF	-	DNF	-

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Reinhard Neuner	4	31:45.3	62
	Wolfgang Rottmann	2	30:16.0	39
	Wolfgang Perner	4	30:13.5	38
	Ludwig Gredler	2	28:44.3	11

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Günther Dengg	1'00:33.9	5	1'05:33.9	62
	Wolfgang Rottmann	58:23.5	2	1'00:23.5	26
	Wolfgang Perner	56:14.1	4	1'00:14.1	24
	Ludwig Gredler	55:56.5	3	58:56.5	12

Men's 4 × 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: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
AUT-1	Hubert Schösser Peter Leismuller Erwin Arnold Martin Schützenauer	Four-man	53.10	6	53.50	7	53.79	7	2:40.39	9
AUT-2	Kurt Einberger Thomas Bachler Georg Kuttner Michael Müller	Four-man	53.92	17	53.83	17	54.39	18	2:42.14	18

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Achim Walcher	28:58.6	23
	Gerhard Urain	28:25.2	14
	Alois Stadlober	28:21.2	12
	Markus Gandler	27:32.5
15 km pursuit^1 F	Gerhard Urain	41:40.8	16
	Alois Stadlober	41:33.1	14
	Achim Walcher	41:02.9	11
	Markus Gandler	40:50.2	7
30 km C	Gerhard Urain	1'43:22.9	43
50 km F	Gerhard Urain	DNF	-
	Achim Walcher	2'18:31.7	38
	Alois Stadlober	2'11:22.4	12
	Christian Hoffmann	2'06:01.8

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Renate Roider	19:18.3	42
	Maria Theurl	18:36.8	15
10 km pursuit^2 F	Maria Theurl	29:58.8	13
15 km C	Renate Roider	51:07.0	26
30 km F	Maria Theurl	1'24:54.3	6

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Women

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Preliminary round - group A

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

Leading scorers

• Team Roster
  • Claus Dalpiaz
  • Reinhard Divis
  • Dominic Lavoie
  • Andreas Pusnik
  • Martin Ulrich
  • Tom Searle
  • Gerhard Pusnik
  • Simon Wheeldon
  • Christoph Brandner
  • Herbert Hohenberger
  • Michael Lampert
  • Martin Hohenberger
  • Patrick Pilloni
  • Gerhard Unterluggauer
  • Gerald Ressmann
  • Rick Nasheim
  • Normand Krumpschmid
  • Mario Schaden
  • Christian Perthaler
  • Dieter Kalt
• Head coach: Ron Kennedy

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gerhard Gleirscher	50.161	9	49.816	6	49.911	7	49.897	7	3:19.785	7
Markus Kleinheinz	50.016	5	49.779	5	49.918	8	50.011	9	3:19.724	5
Markus Prock	49.861	3	49.732	4	49.863	4	50.200	11	3:19.656	4

(Men's) Doubles

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sonja Manzenreiter	51.892	10	51.828	11	51.369	9	51.183	10	3:26.272	10
Andrea Tagwerker	51.518	5	51.335	4	50.990	5	50.648	4	3:24.491	5
Angelika Neuner	51.417	3	51.286	3	50.945	4	50.605	1	3:24.253

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

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

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
		Points	Rank
Felix Gottwald	Individual	190.0	40	45:16.2	21
Christoph Eugen		199.5	29	45:37.7	24
Mario Stecher		228.5	7	43:09.9	8
Christoph Bieler		231.0	5	44:55.5	19

Men's Team

Four participants per team.

Events:

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

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Andi Goldberger	Normal hill	81.0	97.5	22 Q	81.5	99.0	196.5	22
Stefan Horngacher		85.0	107.0	11 Q	84.5	105.5	212.5	10
Reinhard Schwarzenberger		86.0	109.0	9 Q	83.0	102.0	211.0	11
Andreas Widhölzl		88.0	114.5	3 Q	90.5	118.0	232.5
Stefan Horngacher	Large hill	84.0	41.2	60	did not advance
Martin Höllwarth		104.5	86.6	43	did not advance
Reinhard Schwarzenberger		115.5	108.4	16 Q	131.0	135.8	244.2	7
Andreas Widhölzl		131.0	138.8	1 Q	120.5	119.4	258.2	4

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Dieter Happ	1:02.65	1:04.40	2:07.05	9
Sigi Grabner	1:00.61	DSQ	DSQ	-
Dieter Krassnig	1:00.11	1:04.40	2:04.33	4
Martin Freinademetz	59.58	1:05.76	2:05.34	7

Men's halfpipe

Women's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Heidi Jaufenthaler	1:18.43	1:09.51	2:27.94	14
Brigitte Köck	1:13.01	1:06.41	2:19.42
Ursula Fingerlos	1:12.37	1:07.99	2:20.36	5
Isabel Zedlacher	1:11.89	1:11.03	2:22.92	8

Women's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ulrike Hölzl	24.8	21	29.1	13	did not advance
Nicola Pederzolli	31.5	12	34.4	5	did not advance

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Roland Brunner	36.90	30	36.86	28	73.76	29
1000 m	Roland Brunner					1:13.16	31
1500 m	Marnix ten Kortenaar					1:51.94	18
5000 m	Marnix ten Kortenaar					6:38.35	10
10,000 m	Marnix ten Kortenaar					13:52.30	12

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	DSQ	-	-	-	DSQ	-
1500 m	Emese Dörfler-Antal					2:07.57	30
	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady					1:59.19	4
3000 m	Emese Dörfler-Antal					4:33.67	27
	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady					4:12.01	5
5000 m	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady					7:15.23	8

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/AUT/editions/46 Austria at the 1998 Winter Olympics