Austria at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Austria at the Olympic Games
Flag of Austria IOC code  AUT NOC Austrian Olympic Committee Website www.oeoc.at (German)
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul
Competitors	73 (66 men and 7 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Hubert Raudaschl
Medals Rank: 29	Gold 1	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 1
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Intercalated Games
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Austria competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. 73 competitors, 66 men and 7 women, took part in 62 events in 17 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Peter Seisenbacher	Judo	Men's Middleweight (86 kg)

Athletics

Men's Long Jump

• Andreas Steiner
  • Qualification — 7.61m (→ did not advance)
• Teddy Steinmayr
  • Qualification — 7.36m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

• Klaus Bodenmüller
  • Qualifying Heat – 18.89m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Johann Lindner
  • Qualifying Heat — 76.60m
  • Final — 75.36m (→ 10th place)

Men's Decathlon

• Georg Werthner — 7753 points (→ 21st place)

1. 100 metres — 11.52s
2. Long Jump — 7.36m
3. Shot Put — 13.93m
4. High Jump — 1.94m
5. 400 metres — 49.99s
6. 110m Hurdles — 15.64s
7. Discus Throw — 38.82m
8. Pole Vault — 4.60m
9. Javelin Throw — 67.04m
10. 1.500 metres — 4:26.42s

Boxing

Cycling

Diving

Equestrianism

Fencing

Five fencers, all men, represented Austria in 1988.

Men's foil

• Benny Wendt
• Anatol Richter

Men's épée

• Arno Strohmeyer
• Johannes Nagele
• Axel Birnbaum

Judo

Modern pentathlon

One male pentathlete represented Austria in 1988.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Helmut Spannagl — 4833 pts (→ 36th place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Spannagl — 4833 pts (→ 23rd place)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Markus Opatril
  • Heat — 24.32 (→ did not advance, 36th place)
• Alexander Pilhatsch
  • Heat — 24.42 (→ did not advance, 38th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Markus Opatril
  • Heat — 52.66 (→ did not advance, 41st place)
• Stefan Opatril
  • Heat — DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Alesander Placheta
  • Heat — 1:56.11 (→ did not advance, 41st place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Thomas Böhm
  • Heat — 1:04.96 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Thomas Böhm
  • Heat — 2:24.15 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

• Reinhold Leitner
  • Heat — 56.72 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• Reinhold Leitner
  • Heat — 2:02.18 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Stefan Opatril, Markus Opatril, Alesander Placheta, and Alexander Pilhatsch
  • Heat — DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Table tennis

Tennis

Women's Singles Competition

• Barbara Paulus
  1. First Round – Defeated Bettina Fulco (Argentina) 7-6 6-4
  2. Second Round – Defeated Jana Novotná (Czechoslovakia) 6-4 6-3
  3. Third Round – Lost to Zina Garrison (USA) 5-7 2-6

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

1. "Austria at the 1988 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-07-16.