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Austria at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
AUT

Flag bearer
  
Hubert Raudaschl

Website
  
www.oeoc.at (German)

Austria at the 1972 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Austrian Olympic Committee

Competitors
  
111 (97 men and 14 women) in 15 sports

MedalsRanked 31st
  
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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.

Contents

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

    • 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)

    • 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

    • 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

    Shooting

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

    Open

    References

    Austria at the 1972 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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