Austria at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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Austria at the
1998 Winter Olympics
IOC codeAUT
NOCAustrian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympia.at (in German)
in Nagano
Competitors96 (73 men, 23 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer Emese Hunyady (speed skating)
Medals
Ranked 8th
Gold
3
Silver
5
Bronze
9
Total
17
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Austria competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Gold Mario Reiter Alpine skiing Men's combined 13 February
 Gold Hermann Maier Alpine skiing Men's super-G 16 February
 Gold Hermann Maier Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom 19 February
 Silver Michaela Dorfmeister Alpine skiing Women's super-G 11 February
 Silver Markus Gandler Cross-country skiing Men's 10 kilometre classical 12 February
 Silver Hans Knauss Alpine skiing Men's super-G 16 February
 Silver Stephan Eberharter Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom 19 February
 Silver Alexandra Meissnitzer Alpine skiing Women's giant slalom 20 February
 Bronze Brigitte Köck Snowboarding Women's giant slalom 10 February
 Bronze Andreas Widhölzl Ski jumping Normal hill individual 11 February
 Bronze Alexandra Meissnitzer Alpine skiing Women's super-G 11 February
 Bronze Angelika Neuner Luge Women's singles 11 February
 Bronze Hannes Trinkl Alpine skiing Men's downhill 13 February
 Bronze Christian Mayer Alpine skiing Men's combined 13 February
 Bronze Reinhard Schwarzenberger
Martin Höllwarth
Stefan Horngacher
Andreas Widhölzl		 Ski jumping Large hill team 17 February
 Bronze Thomas Sykora Alpine skiing Men's slalom 21 February
 Bronze Christian Hoffmann Cross-country skiing Men's 50 kilometre freestyle 22 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[1]

Sport Men Women Total
Alpine skiing 11 8 19
Biathlon 5 0 5
Bobsleigh 8 – 8
Cross-country skiing 5 2 7
Figure skating 0 1 1
Freestyle skiing 1 1 2
Ice hockey 22 0 22
Luge 5 3 8
Nordic combined 4 – 4
Ski jumping 5 – 5
Snowboarding 5 6 11
Speed skating 2 2 4
Total 73 23 96


Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Hermann Maier Downhill DNF –
Fritz Strobl 1:51.34 11
Andreas Schifferer 1:50.77 7
Hannes Trinkl 1:50.63 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Stephan Eberharter Super-G DSQ –
Andreas Schifferer 1:37.00 19
Hans Knauß 1:35.43 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Hermann Maier 1:34.82 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Hans Knauß Giant Slalom 1:21.16 1:18.55 2:39.71 4
Stephan Eberharter 1:20.94 1:18.42 2:39.36 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Christian Mayer 1:20.84 1:19.83 2:40.67 9
Hermann Maier 1:20.36 1:18.15 2:38.51 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Mario Reiter Slalom DNF – DNF –
Christian Mayer 56.37 54.72 1:51.09 5
Thomas Stangassinger 55.63 55.62 1:51.25 6
Thomas Sykora 55.06 55.62 1:50.68 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Men's combined

Athlete Slalom Downhill Total
Time 1 Time 2 Time Total time Rank
Hermann Maier 50.37 45.53 DNF DNF –
Christian Mayer 49.30 45.75 1:35.06 3:10.11 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Günther Mader 49.19 46.17 1:34.83 3:10.19 4
Mario Reiter 47.37 44.48 1:36.21 3:08.06 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Renate Götschl Downhill DNF –
Michaela Dorfmeister 1:31.17 18
Stefanie Schuster 1:30.73 15
Alexandra Meissnitzer 1:29.84 8
Stefanie Schuster Super-G 1:18.53 9
Renate Götschl 1:18.32 5
Alexandra Meissnitzer 1:18.09 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Michaela Dorfmeister 1:18.03 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Christiane Mitterwallner Giant Slalom 1:23.10 1:35.36 2:58.46 20
Stefanie Schuster 1:21.40 1:35.01 2:56.41 15
Alexandra Meissnitzer 1:20.13 1:32.26 2:52.39 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Ingrid Salvenmoser Slalom 46.84 46.55 1:33.39 6
Sabine Egger 45.97 47.25 1:33.22 5

Women's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Total time Rank
Stefanie Schuster 1:30.10 36.25 35.76 2:42.25 4
Michaela Dorfmeister 1:30.10 DNF – DNF –
Brigitte Obermoser 1:29.82 38.81 36.85 2:45.48 11
Renate Götschl 1:29.34 DNF – DNF –

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Reinhard Neuner 4 31:45.3 62
Wolfgang Rottmann 2 30:16.0 39
Wolfgang Perner 4 30:13.5 38
Ludwig Gredler 2 28:44.3 11
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Günther Dengg 1'00:33.9 5 1'05:33.9 62
Wolfgang Rottmann 58:23.5 2 1'00:23.5 26
Wolfgang Perner 56:14.1 4 1'00:14.1 24
Ludwig Gredler 55:56.5 3 58:56.5 12
Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Wolfgang Perner
Ludwig Gredler
Reinhard Neuner
Wolfgang Rottmann 		2 1'25:33.8 11
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
AUT-1 Hubert Schösser
Peter Leismuller
Erwin Arnold
Martin Schützenauer 		Four-man 53.10 6 53.50 7 53.79 7 2:40.39 9
AUT-2 Kurt Einberger
Thomas Bachler
Georg Kuttner
Michael Müller 		Four-man 53.92 17 53.83 17 54.39 18 2:42.14 18

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
10 km
C 		Achim Walcher 28:58.6 23
Gerhard Urain 28:25.2 14
Alois Stadlober 28:21.2 12
Markus Gandler 27:32.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
15 km
pursuit1
F 		Gerhard Urain 41:40.8 16
Alois Stadlober 41:33.1 14
Achim Walcher 41:02.9 11
Markus Gandler 40:50.2 7
30 km
C 		Gerhard Urain 1'43:22.9 43
50 km
F 		Gerhard Urain DNF –
Achim Walcher 2'18:31.7 38
Alois Stadlober 2'11:22.4 12
Christian Hoffmann 2'06:01.8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Markus Gandler
Alois Stadlober
Achim Walcher
Christian Hoffmann 		1'43:16.5 9
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km
C 		Renate Roider 19:18.3 42
Maria Theurl 18:36.8 15
10 km
pursuit2
F 		Maria Theurl 29:58.8 13
15 km
C 		Renate Roider 51:07.0 26
30 km
F 		Maria Theurl 1'24:54.3 6
2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Women
Athlete SP FS TFP Rank
Julia Lautowa 21 13 23.5 14

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Christian Rijavec Aerials 212.51 10 Q 227.60 7
Women
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Sabina Hudribusch Aerials 147.43 16 did not advance

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's tournament

Preliminary round - group A

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

Team GP W L T GF GA GD Pts
 Kazakhstan 3 2 0 1 14 11 +3 5
 Slovakia 3 1 1 1 9 9 0 3
 Italy 3 1 2 0 11 11 0 2
 Austria 3 0 1 2 9 12 -3 2

All times are local (UTC-7).

7 February 1998Austria 2 – 2
(1-0, 1-2, 0-0)		 SlovakiaThe Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 4,315
8 February 1998Austria 5 – 5
(2-2, 2-1, 1-2)		 KazakhstanThe Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,410
10 February 1998Italy 5 – 2
(2-0, 2-0, 1-2)		 AustriaThe Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 8,473

Consolation Round - 13th place match

All times are local (UTC-7).

12 February 1998Japan 4 – 3 (SO)
(1-2, 1-0, 1-1, 0-0, 1-0)		 Austria 14thThe Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,495

Leading scorers

Rank Player GP G A Pts PIM
7th Dominic Lavoie 4 5 1 6 8

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Gerhard Gleirscher 50.161 9 49.816 6 49.911 7 49.897 7 3:19.785 7
Markus Kleinheinz 50.016 5 49.779 5 49.918 8 50.011 9 3:19.724 5
Markus Prock 49.861 3 49.732 4 49.863 4 50.200 11 3:19.656 4

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Tobias Schiegl
Markus Schiegl 		50.846 4 50.575 4 1:41.421 4
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Sonja Manzenreiter 51.892 10 51.828 11 51.369 9 51.183 10 3:26.272 10
Andrea Tagwerker 51.518 5 51.335 4 50.990 5 50.648 4 3:24.491 5
Angelika Neuner 51.417 3 51.286 3 50.945 4 50.605 1 3:24.253 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's individual

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping
  • 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country
time 		Total
rank
Points Rank
Felix Gottwald Individual 190.0 40 45:16.2 21
Christoph Eugen 199.5 29 45:37.7 24
Mario Stecher 228.5 7 43:09.9 8
Christoph Bieler 231.0 5 44:55.5 19

Men's Team

Four participants per team.

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping
  • 5 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athletes Ski jumping Cross-country
time 		Total
rank
Points Rank
Christoph Eugen
Christoph Bieler
Mario Stecher
Felix Gottwald 		903.5 2 56:04.6 4

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Rank Distance Points Points Rank
Andi Goldberger Normal hill 81.0 97.5 22 Q 81.5 99.0 196.5 22
Stefan Horngacher 85.0 107.0 11 Q 84.5 105.5 212.5 10
Reinhard Schwarzenberger 86.0 109.0 9 Q 83.0 102.0 211.0 11
Andreas Widhölzl 88.0 114.5 3 Q 90.5 118.0 232.5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Stefan Horngacher Large hill 84.0 41.2 60 did not advance
Martin Höllwarth 104.5 86.6 43 did not advance
Reinhard Schwarzenberger 115.5 108.4 16 Q 131.0 135.8 244.2 7
Andreas Widhölzl 131.0 138.8 1 Q 120.5 119.4 258.2 4
Men's team large hill
Athletes Result
Points 1 Rank
Reinhard Schwarzenberger
Martin Höllwarth
Stefan Horngacher
Andreas Widhölzl 		881.5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men's giant slalom
Athlete Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Dieter Happ 1:02.65 1:04.40 2:07.05 9
Sigi Grabner 1:00.61 DSQ DSQ –
Dieter Krassnig 1:00.11 1:04.40 2:04.33 4
Martin Freinademetz 59.58 1:05.76 2:05.34 7
Men's halfpipe
Athlete Qualifying round 1 Qualifying round 2 Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank
Max Ploetzeneder 35.1 19 35.9 16 did not advance
Women's giant slalom
Athlete Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Heidi Jaufenthaler 1:18.43 1:09.51 2:27.94 14
Brigitte Köck 1:13.01 1:06.41 2:19.42 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Ursula Fingerlos 1:12.37 1:07.99 2:20.36 5
Isabel Zedlacher 1:11.89 1:11.03 2:22.92 8
Women's halfpipe
Athlete Qualifying round 1 Qualifying round 2 Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank
Ulrike Hölzl 24.8 21 29.1 13 did not advance
Nicola Pederzolli 31.5 12 34.4 5 did not advance

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
500 m Roland Brunner 36.90 30 36.86 28 73.76 29
1000 m Roland Brunner 1:13.16 31
1500 m Marnix ten Kortenaar 1:51.94 18
5000 m Marnix ten Kortenaar 6:38.35 10
10,000 m Marnix ten Kortenaar 13:52.30 12
Women
Event Athlete Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
500 m Emese Nemeth-Hunyady DSQ – – – DSQ –
1500 m Emese Dörfler-Antal 2:07.57 30
Emese Nemeth-Hunyady 1:59.19 4
3000 m Emese Dörfler-Antal 4:33.67 27
Emese Nemeth-Hunyady 4:12.01 5
5000 m Emese Nemeth-Hunyady 7:15.23 8

References

  1. ^ Austria at the 1998 Winter Olympics