Austria at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Austria at the
1968 Winter Olympics
IOC codeAUT
NOCAustrian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympia.at (in German)
in Grenoble
Competitors76 (63 men, 13 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearerEmmerich Danzer (figure skating)
Medals
Ranked 5th
Gold
3
Silver
4
Bronze
4
Total
11
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Austria competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Olga Pall Alpine skiing Women's downhill
 Gold Wolfgang Schwarz Figure skating Men's singles
 Gold Manfred Schmid Luge Men's individual
 Silver Herbert Huber Alpine skiing Men's slalom
 Silver Erwin Thaler
Reinhold Durnthaler
Herbert Gruber
Josef Eder		 Bobsleigh Four-man
 Silver Manfred Schmid
Ewald Walch		 Luge Men's doubles
 Silver Reinhold Bachler Ski jumping Men's normal hill
 Bronze Heini Meßner Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom
 Bronze Alfred Matt Alpine skiing Men's slalom
 Bronze Christl Haas Alpine skiing Women's downhill
 Bronze Baldur Preiml Ski jumping Men's normal hill

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Egon Zimmermann Downhill 2:02.55 13
Gerhard Nenning 2:02.31 9
Karl Schranz 2:01.89 5
Heini Meßner 2:01.93 4
Werner Bleiner Giant Slalom 1:46.56 16 DSQ – DSQ –
Gerhard Nenning 1:46.47 15 1:47.14 4 3:33.61 8
Karl Schranz 1:45.28 6 1:47.80 8 3:33.08 6
Heini Meßner 1:45.16 5 1:46.67 3 3:31.83 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Men's slalom
Athlete Heat 1 Heat 2 Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time 1 Rank Time 2 Rank Total Rank
Karl Schranz 52.56 1 QF – – DSQ – 49.53 1 DSQ –
Heini Meßner 51.76 1 QF – – 52.32 27 51.83 14 1:44.15 14
Alfred Matt 50.99 1 QF – – 49.68 2 50.41 5 1:40.09 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Herbert Huber 53.04 1 QF – – 50.06 13 49.76 2 1:39.82 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Gertrud Gabl Downhill 1:43.97 12
Brigitte Seiwald 1:41.82 4
Christl Haas 1:41.41 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Olga Pall 1:40.87 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Lisi Pall Giant Slalom 2:00.91 27
Brigitte Seiwald 1:57.26 11
Gertrud Gabl 1:56.85 9
Olga Pall 1:55.61 5
Gertrud Gabl Slalom DNF – – – DNF –
Olga Pall 43.59 16 47.52 9 1:31.11 9
Bernadette Rauter 43.34 14 47.10 8 1:30.44 8
Brigitte Seiwald 41.52 4 59.77 30 1:41.29 24

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Time Penalties Adjusted time 1 Rank
20 km Franz Vetter 1'16:25.0 20 1'36:25.0 56
Adolf Scherwitzl 1'30:21.7 4 1'34:21.7 50
Horst Schneider 1'24:49.6 9 1'33:49.6 47
Paul Ernst 1'25:47.9 6 1'31:47.9 40
1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 2 Time Rank
Paul Ernst
Adolf Scherwitzl
Horst Schneider
Franz Vetter 		10 2'33:47.1 11
2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1968 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 Erwin Thaler
Reinhold Durnthaler 		Two-man 1:11.27 7 1:11.26 3 1:10.72 3 1:11.88 7 4:45.13 4
AUT-2 Max Kaltenberger
Fritz Dinkhauser 		Two-man 1:11.34 9 1:12.15 9 1:11.00 5 1:12.14 8 4:46.63 8
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
AUT-1 Erwin Thaler
Reinhold Durnthaler
Herbert Gruber
Josef Eder 		Four-man 1:10.08 2 1:07.40 2 2:17.48 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
AUT-2 Manfred Hofer
Hans Ritzl
Fritz Dinkhauser
Karl Pichler 		Four-man 1:10.90 9 1:09.12 15 2:20.02 13

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
15 km Walter Failer 54:12.5 51
Ernst Pühringer 53:23.0 47
Heinrich Wallner 52:53.6 42
Andreas Janc 51:29.8 31
30 km Hansjörg Farbmacher 1'49:43.3 50
Franz Vetter 1'45:11.2 40
Ernst Pühringer 1'44:51.0 38
50 km Franz Vetter 2'43:51.1 34
Andreas Janc 2'32:32.2 13
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Heinrich Wallner
Franz Vetter
Ernst Pühringer
Andreas Janc 		2'22:29.4 13

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete CF FS Points Places Rank
Günter Anderl 20 23 1574,7 193 23
Emmerich Danzer 4 1 1873.0 29 4
Wolfgang Schwarz 1 2 1904.1 13 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Women
Athlete CF FS Points Places Rank
Elisabeth Nestler 26 21 1562.6 2089 23
Elisabeth Mikula 17 19 1612.5 164 18
Beatrix Schuba 3 12 1773.2 51 5

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Consolation round

Teams in this group play for 9th-14th places. Austria entered in this round, from the start they did not play for the medals.

Rank Team Pld W L T GF GA Pts
9  Yugoslavia 5 5 0 0 33 9 10
10  Japan 5 4 1 0 27 12 8
11  Norway 5 3 2 0 15 15 6
12  Romania 5 2 3 0 22 23 4
13  Austria 5 1 4 0 12 27 2
14  France 5 0 5 0 9 32 0

Romania Romania – Austria Austria 3:2 (2:1, 1:1, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Fagarasi, Calamar, Mois – Schupp, Samonig.

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia – Austria Austria 6:0 (2:0, 2:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Ivo Jan 3, Roman Smolej, Tisler, Klinar.

France France – Austria Austria 2:5 (0:1, 2:3, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Faucomprez, Caux – Puschnig 2, Kirchbaumer, St. John, Schupp.

Norway Norway – Austria Austria 5:4 (3:1, 2:1, 0:2)
Goalscorers: Dalsören 2, Bjölbak, Olsen, Hansen – Schupp 2, Weingärtner, St. John.

Japan Japan – Austria Austria 11:1 (1:0, 6:0, 4:1)
Goalscorers: Itoh 2, Okajima 2, Hikigi 2, Araki, Kudo, Takashima, Toriyabe, Iwamoto – Puschnig.

Contestants

13. AUSTRIA
Goaltenders: Franz Schilcher, Karl Pregl
Defence: Gerd Schager, Gerhard Felfernig, Josef Mössmer, Hermann Erhard, Gerhard Hausner
Forwards: Dieter Kalt, Adelbert St. John, Josef Puschnig, Josef Schwitzer, Heinz Schupp, Walter König, Heinz Knoflach, Klaus Weingartner, Klaus Kirchbaumer, Günter Burkhart, Paul Samonig

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Peter Kretauer DSQ – – – – – DSQ –
Helmut Thaler 58.42 14 59.03 16 58.60 14 2:56.05 14
Josef Feistmantl 57.78 6 58.06 5 57.73 4 2:53.27 5
Manfred Schmid 57.16 1 57.73 3 57.59 2 2:52.48 1st place, gold medalist(s)

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Manfred Schmid
Ewald Walch 		48.16 2 48.18 2 1:36.34 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Josef Feistmantl
Wilhelm Bichl 		48.81 6 49.30 10 1:38.11 7
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Elfriede Wäger 51.93 18 50.44 12 52.04 17 2:34.41 15
Marlene Korthals 49.72 9 50.31 8 51.30 12 2:31.33 10
Leni Thurner 49.64 6 50.15 7 50.71 7 2:30.50 9

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
  • 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country Total
Distance 1 Distance 2 Points Rank Time Points Rank Points Rank
Helmut Voggenberger Individual 67.5 66.0 181.9 32 54:57.2 160.07 37 341.97 35
Waldemar Heigenhauser 69.0 68.5 197.2 21 55:00.4 159.49 38 356.69 34
Ulli Öhlböck 64.0 64.0 168.8 36 52:23.9 189.20 23 358.00 32

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Sepp Lichtenegger Normal hill 72.5 98.3 70.0 94.8 193.1 29
Max Golser 74.0 102.7 65.0 83.3 186.0 36
Reinhold Bachler 77.5 107.8 76.0 106.4 214.2 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Baldur Preiml 80.0 113.8 72.5 98.8 212.6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Baldur Preiml Large hill 80.5 66.1 87.0 86.2 152.3 48
Sepp Lichtenegger 91.0 90.8 91.0 93.8 184.6 28
Max Golser 95.0 98.9 91.5 91.5 190.4 22
Reinhold Bachler 98.5 107.3 95.0 103.4 210.7 6

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Otmar Braunecker 42.1 26
1500 m Erich Korbel 2:15.7 44
Hermann Strutz 2:14.8 40
Otmar Braunecker 2:14.4 39
5000 m Erich Korbel 8:20.8 37
Hermann Strutz 7:53.3 16
10,000 m Hermann Strutz 16:24.9 17

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