Austria at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Austria at the
1968 Winter Olympics
Austria at the; 1968 Winter Olympics
IOC code	AUT
NOC	Austrian Olympic Committee
Website	www.oeoc.at (in German)
in Grenoble
Competitors	76 (63 men, 13 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Emmerich Danzer (figure skating)
Medals ; Ranked 5th	Gold3Silver4Bronze4Total11
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1924 ; 1928 ; 1932 ; 1936 ; 1948 ; 1952 ; 1956 ; 1960 ; 1964 ; 1968 ; 1972 ; 1976 ; 1980 ; 1984 ; 1988 ; 1992 ; 1994 ; 1998 ; 2002 ; 2006 ; 2010 ; 2014 ; 2018 ; 2022 ;
Other related appearances
	1906 Intercalated Games

Last updated August 30, 2021

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

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	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

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
Athlete	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
Herbert Huber	53.04	1 QF	–	–	50.06	13	49.76	2	1:39.82

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gertrud Gabl	Downhill					1:43.97	12
Brigitte Seiwald						1:41.82	4
Christl Haas						1:41.41
Olga Pall						1:40.87
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

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
Athletes	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

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 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
Sled	Athletes	Event	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
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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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
50 km	Andreas Janc	2'32:32.2	13

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Heinrich Wallner Franz Vetter Ernst Pühringer Andreas Janc	2'22:29.4	13

Figure skating

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Japan – 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

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	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

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch	48.16	2	48.18	2	1:36.34
Josef Feistmantl Wilhelm Bichl	48.81	6	49.30	10	1:38.11	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	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

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
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

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	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
Baldur Preiml		80.0	113.8	72.5	98.8	212.6
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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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
5000 m	Hermann Strutz	7:53.3	16
10,000 m	Hermann Strutz	16:24.9	17

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