Austria at the 2006 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	AUT
Nocname:	Austrian Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	2006
Website:
Location:	Turin
Competitors:	73 (55 men, 18 women)
Sports:	12
Flagbearer:	Renate Götschl (opening)^[1] ^[2]
Rank:	3
Gold:	9
Silver:	7
Bronze:	7
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Austria competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				15 February
				15 February
	Felix Gottwald Michael Gruber Mario Stecher			16 February
				18 February
				20 February
	Martin Koch Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Widhölzl			20 February
				20 February
				21 February
				25 February
				11 February
				12 February
				18 February
				18 February
				18 February
				22 February
				25 February
				14 February
				20 February
				20 February
				22 February
				22 February
				25 February
		Cross-country skiing		26 February

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Men's

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Stephan Görgl	Giant slalom	1:17.15	did not finish
Christoph Gruber	Super-G	n/a	1:32.00	19
Reinfried Herbst	Slalom	53.55	50.42	n/a	1:43.97
Klaus Kröll	Downhill	n/a	1:50.91	22
	Slalom	did not finish
	Combined	1:41.08	45.60	1:02.10	3:28.78	43
Hermann Maier	Downhill	n/a	1:50.00	6
	Super-G	n/a	1:30.78
	Giant slalom	1:16.83	1:18.33	n/a	2:35.16
Benjamin Raich	Super-G	n/a	1:32.05	21
	Giant slalom	1:16.95	1:18.05	n/a	2:35.00
	Slalom	53.37	49.77	n/a	1:43.14
	Combined	1:40.42	44.23	did not finish
Hannes Reichelt	Super-G	n/a	1:31.39	10
Rainer Schönfelder	Giant slalom	1:17.49	1:19.15	n/a	2:36.64	8
	Slalom	54.03	50.12	n/a	1:44.15
	Combined	1:40.02	45.67	44.98	3:10.67
Fritz Strobl	Downhill	n/a	1:50.12	8
Michael Walchhofer	Downhill	n/a	1:49.52
	Combined	1:39.52	did not finish

Women's

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Michaela Dorfmeister	Downhill	n/a	1:56.49
	Super-G	n/a	1:32.47
Andrea Fischbacher	Super-G	n/a	1:33.97	13
Elisabeth Görgl	Downhill	n/a	did not finish
Renate Götschl	Downhill	n/a	1:57.20	4
	Super-G	n/a	1:34.83	26
Nicole Hosp	Giant slalom	1:01.26	1:09.40	n/a	2:10.66	4
	Slalom	42.83	46.50	n/a	1:29.33
	Combined	38.75	43.32	1:31.14	2:53.21	5
Michaela Kirchgasser	Giant slalom	1:02.22	did not finish
	Slalom	42.97	47.31	n/a	1:30.28	5
	Combined	38.99	43.47	1:31.02	2:53.48	6
Alexandra Meissnitzer	Downhill	n/a	1:57.78	8
	Super-G	n/a	1:33.06
Marlies Schild	Giant slalom	1:02.68	1:10.59	n/a	2:13.27	17
	Slalom	43.09	46.70	n/a	1:29.79
	Combined	38.39	42.83	1:30.36	2:51.58
Kathrin Zettel	Giant slalom	1:01.95	1:09.40	n/a	2:11.35	7
	Slalom	disqualified
	Combined	38.77	42.98	1:30.66	2:52.41	4

Note: In the men's combined, run 1 is the downhill, and runs 2 and 3 are the slalom. In the women's combined, run 1 and 2 are the slalom, and run 3 the downhill.

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Both Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann had their results annulled and declared permanently ineligible after violations of the IOC Anti-doping Rules.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Ludwig Gredler	Men's sprint	29:17.6	4	53
	Men's pursuit	40:57.55	10	45
	Men's individual	59:55.1	3	41
Daniel Mesotitsch	Men's individual	1:01:59.7	5	59
Wolfgang Perner	Men's sprint	disqualified
	Men's pursuit	disqualified
	Men's individual	disqualified
Friedrich Pinter	Men's individual	58:25.7	1	26
Wolfgang Rottmann	Men's sprint	disqualified
	Men's pursuit	disqualified
Christoph Sumann	Men's sprint	27:43.2	2	15
	Men's pursuit	36:39.70	2	7
	Men's mass start	48:17.4	2	9
Ludwig Gredler Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Christoph Sumann	Men's relay	1:28:26.4	12	17

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Wolfgang Stampfer Klaus Seelos	Two-man	55.92	55.94	56.57	56.90	3:45.33	10
Jürgen Loacker Gerhard Köhler	Two-man	56.29	56.22	57.07	57.69	3:47.27	13
Wolfgang Stampfer Klaus Seelos Jürgen Loacker Hans Peter Welz	Four-man	55.77	55.83	55.73	55.53	3:42.86	13

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Four cross-country skiers, Roland Diethart, Johannes Eder, Jürgen Pinter and Martin Tauber were permanently barred by the IOC for violations of the Anti-Doping Code, and their results were annulled.

Distance

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Mikhail Botwinov	Men's 30 km pursuit	1:17:08.5	7
	Men's 50 km freestyle	2:06:12.7
Martin Tauber	Men's 15 km classical	Disqualified
	Men's 30 km pursuit	Disqualified
Martin Tauber Jürgen Pinter Roland Diethart Johannes Eder	Men's 4 x 10 km relay	Disqualified

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Martin Stockinger	Men's sprint	2:20.18	25 Q	2:27.1	4	Did not advance	20
Harald Wurm	Men's sprint	2:20.11	24 Q	2:23.4	5	Did not advance	24
Johannes Eder Jürgen Pinter	Men's team sprint	Disqualified

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Veronika Halder	Women's singles	47.426	47.137	47.246	47.278	3:09.087	5
Markus Kleinheinz	Men's singles	52.140	51.767	51.841	51.839	3:27.587	9
Sonja Manzenreiter	Women's singles	47.308	47.200	did not finish
Rainer Margreiter	Men's singles	52.200	51.880	52.234	51.800	3:28.114	12
Daniel Pfister	Men's singles	52.317	52.103	52.058	51.882	3:28.360	13
Nina Reithmayer	Women's singles	47.485	47.532	47.333	47.223	3:09.573	8
Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Doubles	47.028	47.469	n/a	1:34.497
Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl	Doubles	47.108	47.843	n/a	1:34.951	4

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country
		Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Christoph Bieler	Sprint	115.8	8	0:40	19:44.0 +1:15.0	23
	Individual Gundersen	251.0	5	0:46	41:51.3 +2:06.7	13
Felix Gottwald	Sprint	112.1	12	0:54	18:29.0
	Individual Gundersen	234.5	11	1:52	39:54.4 +0:09.8
Michael Gruber	Sprint	116.9	6	0:35	19:23.3 +0:54.3	13
	Individual Gundersen	248.5	7	0:56	41:47.9 +2:03.3	12
Mario Stecher	Sprint	108.9	15	1:07	19:30.3 +1:01.3	14
	Individual Gundersen	223.0	17	2:38	42:59.2 +3:14.6	19
Christoph Bieler Felix Gottwald Michael Gruber Mario Stecher	Team	903.2	2	0:10	49:52.6

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

Skeleton

See main article: Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Markus Penz	Men's	59.55	59.51	1:59.06	16
Martin Rettl	Men's	59.23	59.53	1:58.76	13

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		First round		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Martin Koch	Normal hill	123.0	9 Q	118.0	24 Q	111.5	229.5	23
	Large hill	100.8	8 Q	94.8	32	did not advance	32
Andreas Kofler	Normal hill	134.5	1 PQ	127.0	11 Q	130.5	257.5	11
	Large hill	133.8	3 PQ	135.7	1 Q	141.1	276.8
Thomas Morgenstern	Normal hill	117.0	13 PQ	134.5	2 Q	125.0	259.5	9
	Large hill	136.8	1 PQ	131.4	2 Q	145.5	276.9
Andreas Widhölzl	Normal hill	129.0	6 PQ	120.5	20 Q	123.5	244.0	13
	Large hill	99.9	15 PQ	109.9	12 Q	100.2	210.1	21
Martin Koch Andreas Kofler Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Widhölzl	Team	n/a	472.6	1 Q	511.4	984.0

Note: PQ indicates a skier was pre-qualified for the final, based on entry rankings.

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Parallel GS

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Siegfried Grabner	Parallel giant slalom	1:10.65	6 Q	(11) W -1.44 (-0.37 -1.07)	(3) W -0.61 (-1.35 +0.74)	(2) L +0.34 (+0.42 -0.08)	Bronze final (13) W DNF (DNF +0.41)
Alexander Maier	Parallel giant slalom	disqualified
Andreas Prommegger	Parallel giant slalom	1:10.35	4 Q	(13) L +0.54 (+0.48 +0.06)	did not advance	9
Harald Walder	Parallel giant slalom	1:12.11	14 Q	(14) L +0.66 (+0.25 +0.41)	did not advance	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
	Parallel giant slalom	1:21.49	8 Q	(9) W -0.24 (-0.10 -0.14)	(1) W -0.66 (-0.97 +0.31)	(5) L +3.76 (+1.50 +2.26)	Bronze final (13) L +0.69 (+1.50 -0.81)	4
Doresia Krings	Parallel giant slalom	1:22.02	11 Q	(6) L +1.00 (+0.24 +0.76)	did not advance	11
	Parallel giant slalom	1:21.79	10 Q	(7) L +2.06 (+0.06 +2.00)	did not advance	10
	Parallel giant slalom	1:31.72	28	did not advance	28

Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		1/8 finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Mario Fuchs	Men's snowboard cross	1:22.60	26 Q	3	did not advance	30
Lukas Grüner	Men's snowboard cross	1:21.28	11 Q	4	did not advance	19
Doris Günther	Women's snowboard cross	1:32.58	16 Q	n/a	4	did not advance	Classification 13–16 2	14
Dieter Krassnig	Men's snowboard cross	1:21.00	6 Q	1 Q	2 Q	4	Small final 4	8
Doresia Krings	Women's snowboard cross	1:30.90	n/a	n/a	4	did not advance	Classification 13–16 1	13
Hans Jörg Unterrainer	Men's snowboard cross	1:22.10	17 Q	1 Q	4	did not advance	Classification 13–16 3	17

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anna Rokita	Women's 1500 m	n/a	2:20.19	27
	Women's 3000 m	n/a	4:12.87	16
	Women's 5000 m	n/a	7:16.75	12

References

1. Web site: Flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony. 22 February 2009.
2. Web site: Flagbearers for the Closing Ceremony. 22 February 2009.
3. Web site: Torino 2006: Six Austrian Athletes Declared Permanently Ineligible . International Olympic Committee . 21 February 2009.

• Web site: Yahoo! Sports – 2006 Winter Olympics – Austria . 2006-02-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070312200651/http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006/athletes?lname=all&country=aut&sport=all . 2007-03-12 .