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Austria at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Austria at the
1972 Summer Olympics
IOC codeAUT
NOCAustrian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympia.at (in German)
in Munich, West Germany
August 26, 1972 (1972-08-26) – September 10, 1972 (1972-09-10)
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

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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

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Men's 100 metres

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

Boxing

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Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

Canoeing

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Cycling

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Five cyclists represented Austria in 1972.

Individual road race
Team time trial

Diving

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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:

Equestrian

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Fencing

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

Men's foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Judo

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Modern pentathlon

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Three male pentathletes represented Austria in 1972.

Men's Individual Competition:

Men's Team Competition:

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

Rowing

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Men's Coxed Pairs

Sailing

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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 95.0 17
Harald Fereberger
Franz Eisl
Karl Stangl
Dragon 9 6 13 5 10 17 71.7 10

Shooting

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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
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

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Weightlifting

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Wrestling

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References

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