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Austria at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Austria at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Flag of Austria.svg
IOC codeAUT
NOCAustrian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.oeoc.at (in German)
in Munich
Competitors111 (97 men and 14 women) in 15 sports
Flag bearer Hubert Raudaschl
Medals
Ranked 31st
Gold
0
Silver
1
Bronze
2
Total
3
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Austria competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 111 competitors, 97 men and 14 women, took part in 68 events in 15 sports.[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Silver Norbert Sattler Canoeing Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
 Bronze Ilona Gusenbauer Athletics Women's High Jump
 Bronze Rudolf Dollinger Shooting Men's Free Pistol

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Axel Nepraunik
    • First Heat — 10.61s (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

  • Georg Regner, Axel Nepraunik, Gunther Würfel, and Helmut Lang
    • Heat — 40.49s
    • Semifinals — DNF (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Franz Csandl
    • First Round — Bye
    • Second Round — Lost to Rolando Garbey (CUB), 0:5

Canoeing

Cycling

Five cyclists represented Austria in 1972.

Individual road race
  • Roman Humenberger — 14th place
  • Johann Summer — 46th place
  • Wolfgang Steinmayr — 55th place
  • Rudolf Mitteregger — 71st place
Team time trial
  • Sigi Denk
  • Roman Humenberger
  • Rudolf Mitteregger
  • Johann Summer

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard:

  • Rudolf Kruspel — 293.58 points (→ 31st place)
  • Josef Kien — 285.30 points (→ 32nd place)

Men's 10m Platform:

  • Nikola Stajkovic — 280.29 points (→ 18th place)
  • Rudolf Kruspel — 248.07 points (→ 33rd place)

Women's 10m Platform:

  • Ingeborg Pertmayr — 321.03 points (→ 8th place)

Equestrian

Fencing

13 fencers, 8 men and 5 women, represented Austria in 1972.

Men's foil
  • Roland Losert
Men's épée
  • Rudolf Trost
  • Karl-Heinz Müller
  • Roland Losert
Men's team épée
  • Roland Losert, Karl-Heinz Müller, Herbert Polzhuber, Rudolf Trost
Men's sabre
  • Hanns Brandstätter
  • Fritz Prause
  • Bernd Brodar
Men's team sabre
  • Hanns Brandstätter, Bernd Brodar, Fritz Prause, Günther Ulrich
Women's foil
  • Elke Radlingmaier
  • Hannelore Hradez
  • Waltraut Peck-Repa
Women's team foil
  • Ingrid Gosch, Hannelore Hradez, Adrienne Krebitz, Elke Radlingmaier, Waltraut Peck-Repa

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Austria in 1972.

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Wolfgang Leu — 4852 points (→ 18th place)
  • Peter Zobl-Wessely — 4545 points (→ 35th place)
  • Bruno Jerebicnik — 4415 points (→ 44th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Leu, Zobl-Wessely, and Jerebicnik — 13865 points (→ 11th place)

Rowing

Men's Coxed Pairs

  • Rainer Hinteregger, Manfred Grieshofer and Werner Grieshofer
    • Heat — 8:08.88
    • Repechage — 8:15.94 (→ did not advance)

Sailing

Open
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Kurt Seidl
Ernst Seidl
Flying Dutchman 15 5 26 DNS 18 9 19 127.0 18
Hubert Raudaschl
Erich Moritz
Tempest 5 6 13 15 3 12 14 84.4 10
Manfred Stelzl
Peter Luschan
Star 8 15 5 15 7 7 18 92.0 11
Uli Strohschneider
Peter Denzel
Robert Haschka
Soling 26 16 15 13 13 8 N/A 95.0 17
Harald Fereberger
Franz Eisl
Karl Stangl
Dragon 9 6 13 5 10 17 N/A 71.7 10

Shooting

Seven male shooters represented Austria in 1972. Rudolf Dollinger won bronze in the 50 m pistol event.

Open
Athlete Event Final
Score Rank
Rudolf Dollinger 50 m free pistol 560 Bronze medal.svg
Karl Fröschl 50 m rifle prone 587 67
Hubert Garschall 50 m free pistol 548 21
25 m rapid fire pistol 581 32
Guido Loacker 50 m rifle three positions 1126 39
Josef Meixner Trap 186 20
Gerhard Petritsch 25 m rapid fire pistol 590 8
Wolfram Waibel, Sr. 50 m rifle three positions 1137 25
50 m rifle prone 596 13

Swimming

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

  1. ^ "Austria at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
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