Austria at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Austria at the
1964 Winter Olympics
Austria at the; 1964 Winter Olympics
IOC code	AUT
NOC	Austrian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympia.at (in German)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	83 (69 men, 14 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Regine Heitzer (figure skating)
Medals ; Ranked 2nd	Gold4Silver5Bronze3Total12
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Last updated October 29, 2024

Austria was the host nation of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Egon Zimmermann	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill
Gold	Pepi Stiegler	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom
Gold	Christl Haas	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Gold	Josef Feistmantl Manfred Stengl	Luge	Men's doubles
Silver	Karl Schranz	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom
Silver	Edith Zimmermann	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Silver	Erwin Thaler Adolf Koxeder Josef Nairz Reinhold Durnthaler	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Silver	Regine Heitzer	Figure skating	Women's singles
Silver	Reinhold Senn Helmut Thaler	Luge	Men's doubles
Bronze	Pepi Stiegler	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom
Bronze	Traudl Hecher	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Bronze	Leni Thurner	Luge	Women's singles

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Karl Schranz	Downhill	2:20.98	11
Heini Meßner		2:20.74	10
Gerhard Nenning		2:19.98	7
Egon Zimmermann		2:18.16
Egon Zimmermann	Giant Slalom	DNF	–
Gerhard Nenning		1:49.68	6
Pepi Stiegler		1:48.05
Karl Schranz		1:47.09

Men's slalom

Athlete	Qualifying				Final
Athlete	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Hias Leitner	54.90	20 QF	–	–	1:17.07	29	1:02.57	12	2:19.64	21
Gerhard Nenning	53.60	10 QF	–	–	1:10.29	4	1:02.91	13	2:13.20	7
Karl Schranz	53.55	8 QF	–	–	1:10.04	2	1:11.54	36	2:21.58	24
Pepi Stiegler	53.41	6 QF	–	–	1:09.03	1	1:02.10	8	2:11.13

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Edda Kainz	Downhill					2:02.69	22
Traudl Hecher						1:56.66
Edith Zimmermann						1:56.42
Christl Haas						1:55.39
Marianne Jahn-Nutt	Giant Slalom					1:55.95	13
Traudl Hecher						1:54.55	8
Edith Zimmermann						1:54.21	6
Christl Haas						1:53.86	4
Marianne Jahn-Nutt	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Christl Haas		46.43	10	48.68	5	1:35.11	6
Edith Zimmermann		46.24	9	48.03	4	1:34.27	5
Traudl Hecher		44.52	3	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Paul Ernst	DNF	–	–	DNF
	Adolf Scherwitzl	1'36:12.7	6	1'48:12.7	41
	Walter Müller	1'25:12.3	7	1'39:12.3	34
	Hansjörg Farbmacher	1'28:11.3	4	1'36:11.3	28

¹ Two minutes added per miss.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
AUT-1	Erwin Thaler Josef Nairz	Two-man	1:05.72	4	1:06.98	11	1:06.48	8	1:06.33	5	4:25.51	8
AUT-2	Franz Isser Reinhold Durnthaler	Two-man	1:06.94	11	1:06.71	9	1:07.40	15	1:07.04	10	4:28.09	9

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
AUT-1	Erwin Thaler Adolf Koxeder Josef Nairz Reinhold Durnthaler	Four-man	1:03.67	3	1:03.94	3	1:03.74	3	1:04.13	3	4:15.48
AUT-2	Paul Aste Herbert Gruber Andreas Arnold Hans Stoll	Four-man	1:04.65	14	1:04.40	9	1:04.43	6	1:04.25	4	4:17.73	7

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Günther Rieger	1'01:07.3	59
	Anton Kogler	59:10.6	53
	Hubert Schrott	59:01.7	52
	Hermann Lackner	58:04.0	48
30 km	Franz Vetter	DNF	–
	Hermann Mayr	1'48:53.3	56
	Hansjörg Farbmacher	1'41:37.1	36
	Andreas Janc	1'40:23.3	31
50 km	Hermann Mayr	3'08:48.6	33
50 km	Andreas Janc	2'58:43.8	21

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Günther Rieger Hansjörg Farbmacher Anton Kogler Andreas Janc	2'34:48.9	11

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Heiderun Ludwig	20:11.3	20
10 km	Heiderun Ludwig	47:27.6	25

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Wolfgang Schwarz	17	13	1695.9	127	15
Peter Jonas	9	6	1752.0	79	7
Emmerich Danzer	5	3	1824.0	42	5

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Ingrid Ostler	16	20	1684.8	171	20
Helli Sengtschmid	18	3	1782.1	85	9
Regine Heitzer	2	5	1945.5	22

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Places	Rank
Ingeborg Strell Ferdinand Dedovich	83.6	129	15
Gerlinde Schönbauer Wilhelm Bietak	87.7	108	12

Ice hockey

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Austria	2–8	Finland

Consolation Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9	Poland	7	6	1	0	40	13	12
10	Norway	7	5	2	0	40	19	10
11	Japan	7	4	2	1	35	31	9
12	Romania	7	3	3	1	31	28	7
13	Austria	7	3	3	1	24	28	7
14	Yugoslavia	7	3	3	1	29	37	7
15	Italy	7	2	5	0	24	42	4
16	Hungary	7	0	7	0	14	39	0

Austria 6-2 Yugoslavia
Austria 3-0 Hungary
Austria 5-5 Japan
Austria 2-5 Romania
Austria 5-3 Italy
Austria 2-8 Norway
Austria 1-5 Poland

	Contestants Adolf Bachura Horst Kakl Dieter Kalt Christian Kirchberger Hermann Knoll Eduard Mössmer Tassilo Neuwirth Alfred Püls Sepp Puschnig Erich Romauch Fritz Spielmann Sel Saint John Gustav Tischer Friedrich Turek Fritz Wechselberger Erich Winkler Walter Znenahlik

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Franz Tiefenbacher	53.31	11	53.04	8	54.00	13	53.51	8	3:33.86	8
Manfred Schmid	53.27	10	52.86	7	53.82	12	54.09	13	3:34.04	9
Reinhold Senn	52.32	5	1:03.85	28	53.43	7	53.37	5	3:42.97	21
Josef Feistmantl	52.14	4	52.58	4	53.51	8	53.11	3	3:31.34	5

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Josef Feistmantl Manfred Stengl	50.57	1	51.05	2	1:41.62
Reinhold Senn Helmut Thaler	51.02	2	50.89	1	1:41.91

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Antonia Lanthaler	54.30	11	DNF	–	–	–	–	–	DNF	–
Friederike Matejka	53.61	8	52.98	5	53.94	8	54.15	9	3:34.68	7
Leni Thurner	52.08	4	52.08	3	52.42	5	52.48	3	3:29.06

Nordic combined

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
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Leopold Kohl	Individual	57.0	64.5	181.6	25	57:09.8	160.26	29	341.86	28
Waldemar Heigenhauser		67.5	67.0	210.4	11	56:24.1	168.32	25	378.72	19
Willy Köstinger		70.5	66.5	225.5	5	54:35.5	188.18	18	413.68	10
Franz Scherübl		54.5	61.0	169.6	27	56:19.9	169.00	24	338.60	29

Ski jumping

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Willi Egger	Normal hill	71.0	94.5	71.5	92.9	187.4	44
Sepp Lichtenegger		75.0	102.1	75.0	103.3	205.4	11
Otto Leodolter		74.0	99.7	72.0	97.6	197.3	28
Baldur Preiml		75.0	101.1	76.0	103.5	204.6	13
Sepp Lichtenegger	Large hill	87.0	102.0	68.0	77.9	179.9	43
Otto Leodolter		87.0	101.1	85.0	102.9	204.0	17
Willi Egger		86.5	100.0	87.0	106.0	206.0	12
Baldur Preiml		87.0	106.0	78.0	97.2	203.2	18

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Peter Toyfl	43.7	36
500 m	Manfred Zojer	43.5	35
1500 m	Erich Korbel	DSQ	–
	Josef Reisinger	2:27.8	51
	Peter Toyfl	2:24.2	48
	Hermann Strutz	2:18.0	33
5000 m	Gerhard Strutz	8:50.4	42
	Reinhold Seeböck	8:29.6	37
	Hermann Strutz	7:48.3	5
10,000 m	Hermann Strutz	16:42.6	11

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