Austria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Austria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	AUT
NPC	Austrian Paralympic Committee
Website	www.oepc.at  (in German)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	26 in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Wolfgang Eibeck
Medals Ranked 50th	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 9
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Austria is competing with 26 athletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.

Medalists

Further information: 2016 Summer Paralympics medal table

The following Austrian competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Pepo Puch	Equestrian	Individual championship test grade Ib	September 14
Silver	Markus Swoboda	Paracanoeing	Men's KL2	September 15
Silver	Walter Ablinger	Cycling	Men's road time trial H3	September 15
Silver	Thomas Frühwirth	Cycling	Men's road time trial H4	September 15
Silver	Pepo Puch	Equestrian	Individual freestyle test grade Ib	September 16
Bronze	Krisztian Gardos	Table tennis	Men's individual Class 10	September 12
Bronze	Andreas Onea	Swimming	Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8	September 14
Bronze	Günther Matzinger	Athletics	Men's 400 metres T47	September 17
Bronze	Natalija Eder	Athletics	Women's javelin throw F13	September 17

Support

“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.

Disability classifications

Main article: 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]

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mario Bauer	Marathon T46	—	2:58:34	5
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

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
		Distance	Position
Bil Marinkovic	Discus throw F11	37.22 SB	4

Women

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
		Distance	Position
Natalija Eder	Javelin throw F13	40.49 PB

Paracanoe

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Markus Swoboda	KL2	44.525	1 FA	Bye	43.726

Cycling

Main article: 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]}

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Walter Ablinger	Road race H3	1:53:29	11
	Road time trial H3	29:26.01
Wolfgang Eibeck	Road race C4–5	2:17:45	8
	Road time trial C5	38:15.05	6
Thomas Frühwirth	Road race H4	1:28:59	7
	Road time trial H4	27:49.31
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

Track

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Wolfgang Eibeck	Men's individual pursuit C5	4:49.644	8	did not advance

Equestrian

Main article: 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	WD
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

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Maria Dorn Thomas Ebner Gerheid Pahl Benjamin Strasser	Mixed coxed four	3:47.13	6 R	3:58.96	5 FB	3:45.98	11

Sailing

Main article: 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 criteria 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]}

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Sven Reiger	Norlin Mark 3 / 2.5 metre	8	8	6	5	7	6	11	12	10	13	13	86	11

Swimming

Main article: 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”. ^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
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

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
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	DSQ

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

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	Feng Pf  (CHN) L 0–3	Glinbancheun  (THA) L 0–3	3	did not advance
Stanislaw Fraczyk	Individual C9	Perez  (ESP) W 3–2	Thompson  (GBR) W 3–0	1 Q	—	Last  (NED) L 1–3	did not advance
Krisztian Gardos	Individual C10	Ruiz  (ESP) W 3–1	Carbinatti  (BRA) W 3–2	1 Q	—	Kodjabashev  (BUL) W 3–2	Chojnowski  (POL) L 0–3	Hao L  (CHN) W 3–0
Stanislaw Fraczyk Krisztian Gardos	Team C9–10	—	Netherlands L 1–2	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Doris Mader	Individual C3	Lee M-g  (KOR) L 0–3	Fontaine  (USA) W 3–0	2 Q	Yoon Jy  (KOR) L 0–3	did not advance

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Austria qualified two competitors in the men's single event, Nico Langmann and Martin Legner. ^[11]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nico Langmann	Singles	Dong S  (CHN) L 0–6, 3–6	did not advance
Martin Legner		Im H-w  (KOR) L 1–6, 3–6	did not advance
Nico Langmann Martin Legner	Doubles	—	Bye	Kunieda / Saida  (JPN) L 2–6, 0–6	did not advance

See also

• Austria at the 2016 Summer Olympics

References

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