| Npc: | AUT |
| Npcname: | Austrian Paralympic Committee |
| Games: | Summer Paralympics |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Website: | |
| Location: | Rio de Janeiro |
| Competitors: | 26 |
| Sports: | 9 |
| Flagbearer: | Wolfgang Eibeck |
| Rank: | 50 |
| Gold: | 1 |
| Silver: | 4 |
| Bronze: | 4 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Austria is competing with 26 athletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
The following Austrian competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
“Project Rio 2016” was created by the government to support Paralympic athletes seeking to qualify for the Rio Games. The former Austrian Minister of Sport Gerald Klug met with Paralympians Andreas Onea and Sabine Weber-Treiber as part of this program.[1] The current Minister of Sports is Hans Peter Doskozil.
See main article: article and Disability sport classification. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[2] [3] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[4]
See main article: article and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| Mario Bauer | Marathon T46 | 2:58:34 | 5 | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Thomas Geierspichler | 100 metres T52 | 19.82 | 12 | did not advance | |
| 400 metres T52 | 1:03.27 | 9 | did not advance | |||
| Günther Matzinger | 400 metres T47 | 49.90 SB | 3 Q | 48.95 SB | ||
See main article: article and Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Austria qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.[5] [6]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left rowspan=2 | Walter Ablinger | Road race H3 | 1:53:29 | 11 |
| Road time trial H3 | 29:26.01 | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Wolfgang Eibeck | Road race C4–5 | 2:17:45 | 8 |
| Road time trial C5 | 38:15.05 | 6 | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Thomas Frühwirth | Road race H4 | 1:28:59 | 7 |
| Road time trial H4 | 27:49.31 | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Wolfgang Schattauer | Road race H2 | 1:31:39 | 7 |
| Road time trial H2 | 37:56.39 | 7 | ||
| Walter Ablinger Thomas Frühwirth Wolfgang Schattauer | Mixed team relay | 35:38 | 5 |
See main article: article and Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The country qualified to participate in the team event at the Rio Games.[7]
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Score | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Haller | Puschkin 7 | Individual championship test grade II | |||
| Michael Knauder | Contessa 15 | Individual championship test grade Ia | 68.087 | 14 | |
| Pepo Puch | Fontainenoir | Individual championship test grade Ib | 75.103 | ||
| Individual freestyle test grade Ib | 76.750 | ||||
| Julia Sciancalepore | Pommery 4 | Individual championship test grade Ia | 66.304 | 19 | |
| Thomas Haller Michael Knauder Pepo Puch Julia Sciancalepore | See above | Team | 418.160 | 8 | |
See main article: article and Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
See main article: article and Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had nor already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships. Austria qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the 2.4m event with a ninth-place finish overall and the first country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. The boat was crewed by Sven Reiger.[8] [9] [10]
See main article: article and Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Swimmers Andreas Onea and Sabine Weber-Treiber were Paralympic swimmers who benefited from the Austrian government's “Project Rio 2016”.[11]
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Andreas Onea | 50m freestyle S8 | 29.49 | 15 | did not advance | |
| 100m breaststroke SB8 | 1:14.44 | |||||
| 100m butterfly S8 | 1:04.84 | 6 Q | 1:05.23 | 6 | ||
| 200m individual medley SM8 | 2:35.34 | 9 | did not advance | |||
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Sabine Weber-Treiber | 50m freestyle S6 | 37.89 | 10 | did not advance | |
| 100m freestyle S6 | 1:27.88 | 16 | did not advance | |||
| 100m breaststroke SB5 | 1:53.73 | 8 Q | ||||
See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
| Athlete | Event | Group Stage | Round 1 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
| Egon Kramminger | Individual C3 | L 0–3 | L 0–3 | 3 | did not advance | ||||
| Stanislaw Fraczyk | Individual C9 | W 3–2 | W 3–0 | 1 Q | L 1–3 | did not advance | |||
| Krisztian Gardos | Individual C10 | W 3–1 | W 3–2 | 1 Q | W 3–2 | L 0–3 | W 3–0 | ||
| Stanislaw Fraczyk Krisztian Gardos | Team C9–10 | L 1–2 | did not advance | ||||||
See main article: article and Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Austria qualified two competitors in the men's single event, Nico Langmann and Martin Legner.[12]
| 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 | |||
| Nico Langmann | align=left rowspan=2 | Singles | L 0–6, 3–6 | did not advance | |||||
| Martin Legner | L 1–6, 3–6 | did not advance | |||||||
| Nico Langmann Martin Legner | Doubles | L 2–6, 0–6 | did not advance | ||||||