Austria at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Austria at the
1976 Winter Olympics
Austria at the; 1976 Winter Olympics
IOC code	AUT
NOC	Austrian Olympic Committee
Website	www.oeoc.at (in German)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	77 (63 men, 14 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Franz Klammer (alpine skiing)
Medals; Ranked 7th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 2 Total 6
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Austria was the host nation for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. It was the second time that Austria had hosted the Winter Games, after the 1964 Winter Olympics, also in Innsbruck.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Franz Klammer	Alpine Skiing	Men's downhill
Gold	Karl Schnabl	Ski Jumping	Men's Large Hill
Silver	Brigitte Totschnig	Alpine Skiing	Women's downhill
Silver	Anton Innauer	Ski Jumping	Men's Large Hill
Bronze	Franz Schachner Rudolf Schmid	Luge	Doubles
Bronze	Karl Schnabl	Ski Jumping	Men's Normal Hill

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Steiner	Downhill					DNF	–
Klaus Eberhard						1:48.45	19
Sepp Walcher						1:47.45	9
Franz Klammer						1:45.73
Thomas Hauser	Giant slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Franz Klammer		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Alois Morgenstern		1:48.33	18	DNF	–	DNF	–
Hansi Hinterseer		1:46.46	7	1:47.34	19	3:33.80	14
Hansi Hinterseer	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Anton Steiner		1:06.02	27	1:08.88	21	2:14.90	22
Alois Morgenstern		1:01.61	7	1:05.37	8	2:07.18	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Irmgard Lukasser	Downhill					1:49.18	12
Monika Kaserer						1:48.81	9
Nicola Spieß						1:47.71	4
Brigitte Totschnig						1:46.68
Irmgard Lukasser	Giant slalom					1:35.38	29
Regina Sackl						1:31.78	19
Brigitte Totschnig						1:31.48	16
Monika Kaserer						1:30.49	6
Monika Kaserer	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Regina Sackl		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Nicola Spieß		n/a	?	DNF	–	DNF	–
Brigitte Totschnig		49.17	14	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Klaus Farbmacher	1'20:31.07	16	1'36:31.07	49
	Franz-Josef Weber	1'16:14.92	10	1'26:14.92	37
	Alfred Eder	1'14:42.52	8	1'22:42.52	21

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
Franz-Josef Weber Alfred Eder Klaus Farbmacher Josef Hones	11	2'18:06.78	15

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	Dieter Delle Karth Franz Köfel	Two-man	56.52	6	56.76	7	56.47	4	56.62	5	3:46.37	6
AUT-2	Fritz Sperling Andreas Schwab	Two-man	56.06	1	56.19	2	56.73	6	56.76	7	3:45.74	4

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	Fritz Sperling Kurt Oberhöller Gerd Zaunschirm Dieter Gehmacher	Four-man	55.51	8	55.62	8	56.05	6	56.61	5	3:43.79	7
AUT-2	Werner Delle Karth Andreas Schwab Heinz Krenn Otto Breg Franz Köfel	Four-man	54.66	2	55.80	10	56.10	7	56.65	6	3:43.21	6

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Josef Vogel	48:42.32	48
	Werner Vogel	48:17.47	43
	Rudolf Horn	48:10.52	42
	Herbert Wachter	46:46.39	19
30 km	Franz Gattermann	1'43:04.88	58
	Werner Vogel	1'40:16.10	51
	Reinhold Feichter	1'37:43.73	39
	Herbert Wachter	1'36:28.48	32
50 km	Heinrich Wallner	3'03:58.19	43
	Reinhold Feichter	2'50:53.00	35
	Werner Vogel	2'47:05.63	26
	Herbert Wachter	2'46:40.25	24

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Rudolf Horn Reinhold Feichter Werner Vogel Herbert Wachter	2'12:22.80	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Sylvia Schweiger	20:17.43	42
	Gertrud Gasteiger	20:14.94	41
	Barbara Stöckl	18:49.16	38
10 km	Gertrud Gasteiger	37:35.77	44
	Sylvia Schweiger	36:32.93	41
	Barbara Stöckl	35:28.99	40

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Ronald Koppelent	15	–	–	–	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Claudia Kristofics-Binder	15	18	16	162.88	149	16

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Ursula Nemec Michael Nemec	12	10	121.30	96	10

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	FD	Points	Places	Rank
Susanne Handschmann Peter Handschmann	12	–	–	DNF	–

Ice hockey

First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Soviet Union	16–3	Austria

Consolation Round

Rank		Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
7	Romania	5	4	1	23	15	8
8	Austria	5	3	2	18	14	6
9	Japan	5	3	2	20	18	6
10	Yugoslavia	5	3	2	22	19	6
11	Switzerland	5	2	3	24	22	4
12	Bulgaria	5	0	5	19	38	0

Austria 6-2 Bulgaria
Austria 3-2 Japan
Austria 3-4 Romania
Austria 3-5 Switzerland
Austria 3-1 Yugoslavia

	Contestants Daniel Gritsch Franz Schilcher Walter Schneider Gerhard Hausner Johann Schuller Michael Herzog Günter Oberhuber Othmar Russ Max Moser Rudolf König Sepp Puschnig Franz Voves Josef Schwitzer Peter Zini Sepp Kriechbaum Alexander Sadjina Herbert Pöck Herbert Mörtl

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reinhold Sulzbacher	53.137	10	52.491	7	52.204	6	52.566	8	3:30.398	7
Manfred Schmid	52.973	8	52.073	3	52.113	5	52.352	6	3:29.511	5
Rudolf Schmid	52.933	7	53.806	15	52.361	8	52.319	5	3:31.419	9

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rudolf Schmid Franz Schachner	42.997	3	42.922	2	1:25.919
Manfred Schmid Reinhold Sulzbacher	43.035	4	43.389	6	1:26.424	5

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Angelika Schafferer	43.444	8	43.007	9	42.793	8	43.078	9	2:52.322	8
Margit Graf	43.094	6	42.790	5	42.555	4	43.020	8	2:51.459	6
Antonia Mayr	42.949	4	42.812	6	42.633	5	42.966	6	2:51.360	5

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
Fritz Koch	Individual	72.0	72.0	189.1	22	53:04.73	174.52	28	363.62	26

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Toni Innauer	Normal hill	80.5	115.6	81.0	117.9	233.5	7
Rudi Wanner		79.5	116.5	79.5	117.0	233.5	7
Reinhold Bachler		80.5	118.1	80.5	119.1	237.2	6
Karl Schnabl		82.5	121.8	81.5	120.2	242.0
Hans Wallner	Large hill	93.5	109.4	92.5	107.5	216.9	6
Reinhold Bachler		95.0	111.5	91.0	105.9	217.4	5
Karl Schnabl		97.5	117.5	97.0	117.3	234.8
Toni Innauer		102.5	126.5	91.0	106.4	232.9

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Heinz Steinberger	43.28	27
500 m	Berend Schabus	42.33	26
1000 m	Berend Schabus	1:26.50	25
1500 m	Berend Schabus	2:15.41	29
1500 m	Ludwig Kronfuß	2:11.17	26
5000 m	Hubert Gundolf	8:29.34	29
5000 m	Ludwig Kronfuß	8:19.72	27
10,000 m	Hubert Gundolf	17:52.43	20

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Nations at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
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Asia	Republic of China Iran Japan South Korea Lebanon
Europe	Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Finland France East Germany West Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Liechtenstein Netherlands Norway Poland Romania San Marino Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia New Zealand