Austria at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Appearance
Austria at the 1956 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | AUT |
NOC | Austrian Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 26 January–5 February 1956 | |
Competitors | 60 (50 men, 10 women) in 8 sports |
Flag bearer | Toni Sailer (alpine skiing) |
Medals Ranked 2nd |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Austria competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Medalists
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Toni Sailer | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
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Toni Sailer | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
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Toni Sailer | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
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Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt |
Figure skating | Pairs |
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Anderl Molterer | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slaom |
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Putzi Frandl | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
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Regina Schöpf | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
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Anderl Molterer | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
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Walter Schuster | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
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Thea Hochleitner | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
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Ingrid Wendl | Figure skating | Women's singles |
Alpine skiing
- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Walter Schuster | Downhill | DSQ | – | ||||
Josl Rieder | DSQ | – | |||||
Anderl Molterer | 2:56.2 | ![]() | |||||
Toni Sailer | 2:52.2 | ![]() | |||||
Ernst Hinterseer | Giant Slalom | 3:08.5 | 6 | ||||
Walter Schuster | 3:07.2 | ![]() | |||||
Anderl Molterer | 3:06.3 | ![]() | |||||
Toni Sailer | 3:00.1 | ![]() | |||||
Anderl Molterer | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Josl Rieder | 1:47.0 | 31 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – | |
Othmar Schneider | 1:35.8 | 23 | 2:00.0 | 13 | 3:35.8 | 12 | |
Toni Sailer | 1:27.3 | 1 | 1:47.4 | 1 | 3:14.7 | ![]() |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Putzi Frandl | Downhill | 1:51.0 | 13 | ||||
Trude Klecker | 1:50.6 | 12 | |||||
Thea Hochleitner | 1:47.9 | 7 | |||||
Hilde Hofherr | 1:47.3 | 4 | |||||
Trude Klecker | Giant Slalom | 2:08.5 | 33 | ||||
Regina Schöpf | 2:00.6 | 9 | |||||
Thea Hochleitner | 1:58.2 | ![]() | |||||
Putzi Frandl | 1:57.8 | ![]() | |||||
Putzi Frandl | Slalom | 1:00.4 | 14 | 57.5 | 2 | 1:58.0 | 5 |
Thea Hochleitner | 1:00.4 | 14 | 1:00.6 | 13 | 2:01.0 | 12 | |
Hilde Hofherr | 58.2 | 6 | 1:25.3 | 31 | 2:23.5 | 24 | |
Regina Schöpf | 56.0 | 2 | 59.4 | 7 | 1:55.4 | ![]() |
Bobsleigh
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
AUT-1 | Paul Aste Heinrich Isser |
Two-man | 1:26.32 | 12 | 1:25.82 | 12 | 1:26.61 | 15 | 1:25.22 | 7 | 5:43.97 | 12 |
AUT-2 | Karl Wagner Adolf Tonn |
Two-man | 1:26.15 | 11 | 1:27.06 | 20 | 1:26.73 | 16 | 1:26.35 | 14 | 5:46.29 | 15 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
AUT-1 | Karl Wagner Fritz Rursch Adolf Tonn Heinrich Isser |
Four-man | 1:19.60 | 11 | 1:20.74 | 17 | 1:19.98 | 8 | 1:20.30 | 8 | 5:20.62 | 10 |
AUT-2 | Kurt Loserth Wilfried Thurner Karl Schwarzböck Franz Dominik |
Four-man | 1:19.37 | 10 | 1:19.12 | 9 | 1:20.08 | 9 | 1:19.72 | 5 | 5:18.29 | 7 |
Cross-country skiing
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Oskar Schulz | 59:56 | 59 |
Hermann Mayr | 55:51 | 39 | |
Karl Rafreider | 54:51 | 35 | |
Sepp Schneeberger | 54:21 | 28 |
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Sepp Schneeberger Oskar Schulz Hermann Mayr Karl Rafreider |
2'30:50 | 11 |
Figure skating
- Men
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Norbert Felsinger | 7 | 8 | 150.55 | 67 | 7 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Hanna Walter | 8 | 7 | 153.89 | 83.5 | 7 |
Hanna Eigel | 5 | 4 | 157.15 | 52 | 5 |
Ingrid Wendl | 3 | 5 | 159.44 | 39 | ![]() |
- Pairs
Athletes | Points | Places | Rank |
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Elisabeth Ellend Konrad Lienert |
10.38 | 77 | 9 |
Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt |
11.31 | 14 | ![]() |
Ice hockey
Group A
Top two teams advanced to Medal Round.
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 6 |
2 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
3 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
4 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 1 |
- Italy 2-2 Austria
- Canada 23-0 Austria
- Germany (UTG) 7-0 Austria
Games for 7th-10th places
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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7 | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 6 |
8 | ![]() |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 4 |
9 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 18 | 2 |
10 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 0 |
- Switzerland 7-4 Austria
- Italy 8-2 Austria
- Poland 4-3 Austria
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 | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Leopold Kohl | Individual | 66.5 | 69.5 | 198.5 | 16 | 1'01:00 | 221.800 | 21 | 420.300 | 17 |
Sepp Schiffner | 71.5 | 73.5 | 211.5 | 4 | 1'02:02 | 217.800 | 25 | 429.300 | 11 | |
Willi Egger | 73.0 | 72.5 | 208.0 | 7 | 1'03:00 | 214.100 | 28 | 422.100 | 16 |
Ski jumping
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||||
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Distance | Points | Rank | Distance | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Otto Leodolter | Normal hill | 72.0 | 94.0 | 31 | 72.5 | 91.0 | 33 | 185.0 | 30 |
Rudolf Schweinberger | 74.5 | 100.0 | 22 | 75.0 | 99.0 | 17 | 199.0 | 19 | |
Walter Habersatter | 77.5 | 102.0 | 18 | 77.5 | 99.5 | 16 | 201.5 | 15 | |
Sepp Bradl | 77.5 | 104.5 | 11 | 77.0 | 101.0 | 15 | 205.5 | 12 |
Speed skating
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Kurt Eminger | 44.4 | 41 |
Ernst Biel | 44.2 | 37 | |
Franz Offenberger | 43.8 | 32 | |
1500 m | Ernst Biel | 2:23.5 | 51 |
Kurt Eminger | 2:19.0 | 38 | |
Arthur Mannsbarth | 2:17.4 | 32 | |
Franz Offenberger | 2:17.3 | 31 | |
5000 m | Kurt Eminger | 8:39.4 | 38 |
Franz Offenberger | 8:30.8 | 34 | |
Arthur Mannsbarth | 8:23.6 | 28 | |
10,000 m | Arthur Mannsbarth | 17:47.8 | 29 |