Austria at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Austria at the 1998 Winter Olympics
IOC code	AUT
NOC	Austrian Olympic Committee
Website	www.oeoc.at (in German)
in Nagano
Competitors	96 (73 men, 23 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Emese Hunyady (speed skating)
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 3 Silver 5 Bronze 9 Total 17
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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.

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
Stephan Eberharter	Super-G			DSQ	–
Andreas Schifferer				1:37.00	19
Hans Knauß				1:35.43
Hermann Maier				1:34.82
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
Christian Mayer		1:20.84	1:19.83	2:40.67	9
Hermann Maier		1:20.36	1:18.15	2:38.51
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

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
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

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
Michaela Dorfmeister				1:18.03
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
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
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

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 1998

Austria

2 – 2 (1-0, 1-2, 0-0)

Slovakia

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 4,315

8 February 1998

Austria

5 – 5 (2-2, 2-1, 1-2)

Kazakhstan

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,410

10 February 1998

Italy

5 – 2 (2-0, 2-0, 1-2)

Austria

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 8,473

Consolation Round - 13th place match

All times are local (UTC-7).

12 February 1998

Japan

4 – 3 (SO) (1-2, 1-0, 1-1, 0-0, 1-0)

Austria 14th

The 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

• Team Roster
  • Claus Dalpiaz
  • Reinhard Divis
  • Dominic Lavoie
  • Andreas Pusnik
  • Martin Ulrich
  • Tom Searle
  • Gerhard Pusnik
  • Simon Wheeldon
  • Christoph Brandner
  • Herbert Hohenberger
  • Michael Lampert
  • Martin Hohenberger
  • Patrick Pilloni
  • Gerhard Unterluggauer
  • Gerald Ressmann
  • Rick Nasheim
  • Normand Krumpschmid
  • Mario Schaden
  • Christian Perthaler
  • Dieter Kalt
• Head coach: Ron Kennedy

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

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
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

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
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

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com