Team Austria - Profile

Highlights:

@ PYEONGCHANG 2018
Competed in 12 sports: Alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing, luge, Nordic combined, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and speed skating - with a team of 102 athletes (62 men, 40 women).

Austria won 14 medals (five gold), three medals by women, eight by men, and three in mixed/open events.

Their top performer was Alpine skier Marcel Hirscher, who won gold in the men's slalom and men's super combined. Austria won the most medals in Alpine skiing, with seven, and the most gold medals, with three.

PYEONGCHANG 2018 MEDALS
Alpine Skiing: 7 (3-2-2)
Biathlon: 1 (0-0-1)
Luge: 3 (1-1-1)
Nordic Combined: 2 (0-0-2)
Snowboarding: 1 (1-0-0)
Total: 14 (5-3-6)

PYEONGCHANG 2018 FLAGBEARERS
Opening Ceremony: Anna Veith (ALP)
Closing Ceremony: Madeleine Egle (LUG)

OLYMPIC GAMES HISTORY
Austria made its Olympic Games debut at Athens 1896 and has only missed the Olympic Games at Antwerp 1920, including every Olympic Winter Games, where it has often been the dominant nation in Alpine skiing. Among nations winning medals at both sets of Games, it is one of only two countries, along with Norway, to have won more medals at the Olympic Winter Games than at the Olympic Games.

Austrian athletes have won 232 medals (64 gold) at the Olympic Winter Games and 93 medals (19 gold) at the Olympic Games.

Felix Gottwald has won the most medals of any Austrian, with seven in Nordic combined skiing - three gold, one silver, and three bronze. He is one of only three Austrians who have won three gold medals, along with Toni Sailer (Alpine skiing) and Thomas Morgenstern (ski jumping), all at the Olympic Winter Games. Four Austrians have won four medals at the Olympic Winter Games - Morgenstern, Hermann Maier (Alpine skiing), Benjamin Raich (Alpine skiing), and Mario Stecher (Nordic combined).

Dominant in Alpine skiing, Austria has won 121 medals and 37 gold medals, almost twice as many as the next-best nation in that sport - Switzerland. The men (68 medals, 24 gold) and women (52 medals, 14 gold) lead their respective medal lists in Alpine skiing. Its next-best sports at the Olympic Winter Games have been ski jumping (25 medals, six gold), luge (22 medals, six gold), and figure skating (20 medals, seven gold).

Austria's two best performances at the Olympic Winter Games came at Torino 2006, with nine gold medals and 23 medals, and at Albertville 1992, with six gold medals and 21 medals.

Only two Austrians have been able to win two gold medals at the same Olympic Games - Julius Lenhart in 1904 and Gregor Hradetzky in 1936, and only three Austrians have won gold medals in two different Olympic Games with judoka Peter Seisenbacher winning in 1984 and 1988 followed by sailors Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher, who won together at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.

OLYMPIC HOSTS
Innsbruck - 1964 Olympic Winter Games
Innsbruck - 1976 Olympic Winter Games

MILESTONES

First Competitor, Female: Herma Planck-Szabo (28 January 1924) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Gold
First Competitor, Male: Willy Boeckl (29 January 1924) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Silver

Youngest Competitor, Female: Hedy Stenuf (13y-208d) - 1936 - Figure Skating (Singles) - 6th
Youngest Competitor, Male: Hellmut May (14y-244d) - 1936 - Figure Skating (Singles) - 14th

Oldest Competitor, Female: Claudia Riegler (44y-231d) - 2018 - Snowboarding (Parallel Giant Slalom) - DNF
Oldest Competitor, Male: Karl Wagner (48y-270d) - 1956 - Bobsleigh (4-man) - 10th

First Medallist, Female: Herma Planck-Szabo (29 January 1924) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Gold
First Medallist, Male: Willy Boeckl (30 January 1924) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Silver

First Gold Medallist, Female: Herma Planck-Szabo (29 January 1924) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Gold
First Gold Medallist, Male: Alfred Berger (31 January 1924) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Pairs) - Gold

Youngest Medallist, Female: Ingrid Wendl (15y-260d) - 1956 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Bronze
Youngest Medallist, Male: Erik Pausin (15y-300d) - 1936 - Figure Skating (Pairs) - Silver

Youngest Gold Medallist, Female: Sissy Schwarz (19y-259d) - 1956 - Figure Skating (Pairs) - Gold
Youngest Gold Medallist, Male: Manfred Stengl (17y-310d) - 1964 - Luge (Doubles) - Gold

Oldest Medallist, Female: Michaela Dorfmeister (32y-331d) - 2006 - Alpine Skiing (Super-G) - Gold
Oldest Medallist, Male: Mikhail Botvinov (38y-101d) - 2006 - Cross-Country Skiing (50km Mass Start Freestyle) - Bronze

Oldest Gold Medallist, Female: Michaela Dorfmeister (32y-331d) - 2006 - Alpine Skiing (Super-G) - Gold
Oldest Gold Medallist, Male: Mario Matt (34y-319d) - 2014 - Alpine Skiing (Slalom) - Gold

Most Medals, Female: Marlies Schild (4 | 0-3-1) - Alpine Skiing
Most Medals, Male: Felix Gottwald (7 | 3-1-3) - Nordic Combined

Most Gold Medals, Female: Michaela Dorfmeister (2) - Alpine Skiing
Most Gold Medals, Female: Trude Jochum-Beiser (2) - Alpine Skiing
Most Gold Medals, Female: Petra Kronberger (2) - Alpine Skiing
Most Gold Medals, Male: Felix Gottwald (3) - Nordic Combined
Most Gold Medals, Male: Thomas Morgenstern (3) - Ski Jumping
Most Gold Medals, Male: Toni Sailer (3) - Alpine Skiing

MEDALS BY CLASS AT PREVIOUS OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Men: 143 (40-45-58)
Women: 73 (19-29-25)
Mixed: 7 (2-3-2)
Open: 9 (3-4-2)
Totals: 232 (64-81-87)

Additional Information:

http://www.olympia.at/

Anthem Title: Bundeshymne der Republik Osterreich (Federal Hymn of the Republic of Austria)

Anthem Composer: Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Holzer, Lyrics: Paula von Preradovic

Anthem Inducted: 1947

Founding Date: 1908

IOC Recognition Date: 1912

Delegation President: Karl Stoss

Delegation Secretary General: Peter Mennel

IOC Members: Current:Karl Stoss (entry into IOC: 2016)Former:Alexander, Prince von Solms Braunfels (1905-1909)Otto, Prince zu Windisch-Graetz (1911-1919)Rudolf, Count Colloredo-Mannsfeld (1911-1919)Martin Haudek (1924-1928)Theodor Schmidt (1928-1938)Manfred, Ritter von Markhof (1947-1969)Rudolf Nemetschke (1969-1976)Philipp von Schoeller (1977-2000)Leo Wallner (1998-2014)

First OG/PG Appearance: 1924

Number OG/PG Appearances: 23

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