Austria at the 2012 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	AUT
Nocname:	Austrian Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2012
Website:
Location:	London
Competitors:	70
Sports:	17
Flagbearer:	Markus Rogan (opening) Beate Schrott (closing)
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Austria competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The nation has competed at every edition of Summer Olympic Games, except the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The Österreichisches Olympisches Comité sent a total of 70 athletes to the Games, 39 men and 31 women, to compete in 17 sports. This was approximately the same size as the previous Games, with the difference of one male athlete, the addition of one female athlete and three sporting events participated in. There was only a single competitor in eventing, fencing, rhythmic gymnastics, modern pentathlon, and Greco-Roman wrestling.

The Austrian team included past Olympic medalists: judoka Ludwig Paischer, who won silver in Beijing, and swimmer Markus Rogan, who was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.^[1] Rifle shooter and multiple time world champion Thomas Farnik, at age 45, competed at his sixth Olympics and was the oldest and most experienced team member. Meanwhile, two Austrian athletes made their fifth Olympic appearance: table tennis player and former world champion Werner Schlager, and slalom kayaker Helmut Oblinger, the husband of former Olympic bronze medalist Violetta Oblinger-Peters.

Austria, however, failed to win a single medal for the first time since 1964, after a poor performance at these games.^[2] Hurdler Beate Schrott, butterfly swimmer Dinko Jukic, open skiff sailors Nico Delle Karth and Nikolaus Resch, sprint kayak pair Yvonne Schuring and Viktoria Schwarz, and modern pentathlete Thomas Daniel qualified successfully for the final rounds of their respective sports, but missed out of the medal standings.

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austrian athletes have further achieved qualifying standards in their respective events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard).^[3]

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Andreas Vojta	1500 m	3:43.52	12	Did not advance
Günther Weidlinger	Marathon

Field events

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Andrea Mayr	Marathon	2:34:51	54
Beate Schrott	100 m hurdles	13.09	1 Q	12.83	2 Q	13.07	8

Field events

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event				200 m			800 m	Final	Rank
Ivona Dadic	Result	14.58	1.80	12.19	24.29	6.00	41.82	2:15.90	5935	25
Points	898	978	674	953	850	702	880

Badminton

See main article: article and Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Michael Lahnsteiner	Men's singles	L 11–21, 7–21	L 14–21, 18–21	3	Did not advance
Simone Prutsch	Women's singles	L 11–21, 9–21	L 18–21, 10–21	3	Did not advance

Canoeing

See main article: article and Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Slalom

Austria has qualified boats for the following events

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Helmut Oblinger	Men's K-1	88.81	5	92.66	14	88.81	10 Q	98.99	7 Q	104.28	8
Corinna Kuhnle	Women's K-1	160.06	16	101.77	5	101.77	7 Q	111.07	5 Q	119.30	8

Sprint

Austria has so far qualified boats for the following events

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Road

Austria has qualified two riders.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Bernhard Eisel	Men's road race	5:46:37	36
Daniel Schorn	5:46:37	81

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Alexander Gehbauer	align=left rowspan=2	Men's cross-country	1:31:16	9
Karl Markt	1:33:18	20
Elisabeth Osl	Women's cross-country	1:36:47	15

Equestrian

See main article: article and Equestrian at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Special		Grand Prix Freestyle		Overall
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Technical	Artistic	Score	Rank
Victoria Max-Theurer	Augustin	align=left rowspan=2	Individual	73.267	17 Q	73.619	17 Q	76.393	81.714	79.053	13
Renate Voglsang	Fabriano	69.635	34	Did not advance

Eventing

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria has qualified 1 fencer.

Men

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Men

Women

Rhythmic

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ludwig Paischer	Men's −60 kg	W 0100–0000	L 0210–0000	Did not advance
Sabrina Filzmoser	Women's −57 kg		W 0100–0010	W 1001–0001	L 0002–0031	Did not advance	L 0001–0100	Did not advance	7
Hilde Drexler	Women's −63 kg		W 0011–0000	L 0001–0002	Did not advance

Modern pentathlon

See main article: article and Modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria has qualified 1 athlete.

Sailing

See main article: article and Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria has qualified 1 boat for each of the following events

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Andreas Geritzer	Laser	6	20	22	16	6	28	23	22	32	16	EL	158	20
Florian Raudaschl	Finn	6	19	23	24	25	15	21	24	24	23	EL	179	23
Florian Reichstädter Matthias Schmid	470	1	4	7	19	4	16	24	10	14	14	18	107	9

Women

Open

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria has ensured four quota places in the shooting events at the Games.^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Thomas Farnik	50 m rifle 3 positions	1167	12	Did not advance
50 m rifle prone	592	27	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	591	28	Did not advance
Christian Planer	50 m rifle prone	592	23	Did not advance
Andreas Scherhaufer	Trap	119	17	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Stephanie Obermoser	50 m rifle 3 positions	573	37	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	395	19	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria selected 11 swimmers to the team after achieving qualifying standards in their respective events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[5] Three of their swimmers had competed at their first Games, including medley swimmer Lisa Zaiser, who was also the nation's youngest athlete.

The Austrian swimmers also included the former backstroker and Olympic silver medalist Markus Rogan, competing in the men's 200 m individual medley event, and Dinko Jukic, brother of former Olympic swimmer Mirna Jukic, in the butterfly events. By results, Jukic qualified successfully for the finals in the men's 200 m butterfly event, but missed out of the medal standings. Rogan, another Olympic hopeful, was disqualified in the semi-finals due to a technical mistake during a turn.^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
David Brandl	200 m freestyle	1:49.00	27	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Dinko Jukic	100 m butterfly	52.22	=13 Q	51.99	9	Did not advance
200 m butterfly	1:54.79	1 Q	1:54.95	6 Q	1:54.35	4
Hunor Mate	200 m breaststroke	2:15.98	29	Did not advance
Markus Rogan	200 m individual medley	1:58.66	8 Q			Did not advance
Sebastian Stoss	200 m backstroke	2:02.91	34	Did not advance
David Brandl Florian Janistyn Markus Rogan Christian Scherübl	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:17.94	16	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nina Dittrich	800 m freestyle	8:45.41	28	Did not advance
Birgit Koschischek	100 m butterfly	1:00.54	37	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Jördis Steinegger	200 m freestyle	2:02.39	29	Did not advance
400 m individual medley	4:45.80	23	Did not advance
Lisa Zaiser	200 m individual medley	2:14.56	19	Did not advance

Synchronized swimming

See main article: article and Synchronized swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria has qualified 2 quota places in synchronized swimming.

Table tennis

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Austria has qualified three athletes for singles table tennis events. Based on their world rankings as of 16 May 2011 Werner Schlager and Weixing Chen have qualified for the men's event; Jia Liu has qualified for the women's.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Weixing Chen	align=left rowspan=2	Singles	W 4–0	W 4–0	L 0–4	Did not advance
Werner Schlager	W 4–2	L 1–4	Did not advance
Weixing Chen Robert Gardos Werner Schlager	Team	W 3–0	L 0–3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Li Qiangbing	align=left rowspan=2	Singles	W 4–0	L 2–4	Did not advance
Liu Jia	W 4–2	L 1–4	Did not advance
Li Qiangbing Liu Jia Amelie Solja	Team	L 1–3	Did not advance

Tennis

See main article: article and Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jürgen Melzer	Men's singles	L 6–7^(5–7), 2–6	Did not advance
Jürgen Melzer Alexander Peya	Men's doubles		W 5–7, 7–6^(8–6), 7–5	L 3–6, 6–3, 9–11	Did not advance
Tamira Paszek	Women's singles	L 6–7^(4–7), 4–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

See main article: article and Triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria has qualified the following athletes.

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total time	Rank
Andreas Giglmayr	Men's	18:57	0:43	58:45	0:28	32:21	1:51:14	40
Lisa Perterer	Women's	20:17	0:45	1:10:12	0:35	37:23	2:09:12	48

Volleyball

See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Beach

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Clemens Doppler Alexander Horst	Men's	Pool A L 1 – 2 (21–19, 17–21, 14–16) W 2 – 0 (21–18, 21–17) L 0 – 2 (22–24, 12–21)	4	Did not advance				19
Doris Schwaiger Stefanie Schwaiger	Women's	Pool C L 1 – 2 (21–10, 13–21, 13–15) W 2 – 1 (18–21, 22–20, 15–10) L 1 – 2 (21–17, 8–21, 10–15) Lucky Losers W 2 – 0 (21–15, 21–12)	3 Q	W 2 – 1 (21–17, 16–21, 15–9)	L 0 – 2 (18–21, 11–21)	Did not advance		5

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Austria has qualified in the following events.

Men's Greco-Roman

External links

• • First 24 nominated (German language)

Notes and References

1. News: Staff. 6 July 2012. Rogan bei Eröffnung Österreichs Fahnenträger. Rogan, Austria's Flag Bearer at the Opening Ceremonies. de. Austria Presse Agentur. Die Presse. 12 July 2012.
2. News: Olympics 2012: Austria laments worst Games in 50 years. Daily News & Analysis India. 10 August 2012. 26 August 2012.
3. Web site: iaaf.org – Top Lists. IAAF. 6 September 2011.
4. Web site: Quota places by nation and name. . 20 April 2011 . . 5 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140405211236/http://www.issf-sports.org/results/og_qualification/quota_places/quota_places_by_nation_and_name.ashx . dead .
5. Web site: Swimming World Rankings . FINA . 6 September 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110106131744/http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=805 . 6 January 2011 .
6. News: Austrian swim hopeful Rogan disqualified. The Austrian Times. 2 August 2012. 31 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20130619140732/http://austriantimes.at/news/Sports/2012-08-02/43314/Austrian_swim_hopeful_Rogan_disqualified. 19 June 2013. dead.
7. Web site: Direct Qualifiers for 2012 London Olympic Games – Provisional list . International Table Tennis Federation . 27 May 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809193041/http://www.ittf.com/World_Events/2012OG/Players_byWR_OG2012.pdf . 9 August 2011 .