Austria at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Austria competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 73 competitors, 66 men and 7 women, took part in 62 events in 17 sports.

Medalists

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%"

!Medal

!Name

!Sport

!Event

!Date

| || || Judo || Men's 86 kg || 29 September

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

! width=180|Sport

! width=55|Men

! width=55|Women

! width=55|Total

| align=left|Athletics

| 9 || 1 || 10

| align=left|Boxing

| 1 || – || 1

| align=left|Cycling

| 7 || 0 || 7

| align=left|Diving

| 2 || 0 || 2

| align=left|Equestrian

| 2 || 0 || 2

| align=left|Fencing

| 5 || 0 || 5

| align=left|Gymnastics

| 0 || 1 || 1

| align=left|Judo

| 3 || – || 3

| align=left|Modern pentathlon

| 1 || – || 1

| align=left|Rowing

| 5 || 0 || 5

| align=left|Sailing

| 8 || 0 || 8

| align=left|Shooting

| 7 || 4 || 11

| align=left|Swimming

| 6 || 0 || 6

| align=left|Table tennis

| 2 || 0 || 2

| align=left|Tennis

| 2 || 1 || 3

| align=left|Weightlifting

| 1 || – || 1

| align=left|Wrestling

| 5 || – || 5

! Total || 66 || 7 || 73

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)

:# 100 metres — 11.52s

:# Long Jump — 7.36m

:# Shot Put — 13.93m

:# High Jump — 1.94m

:# 400 metres — 49.99s

:# 110m Hurdles — 15.64s

:# Discus Throw — 38.82m

:# Pole Vault — 4.60m

:# Javelin Throw — 67.04m

:# 1.500 metres — 4:26.42s

Boxing

Cycling

Seven cyclists, all men, represented Austria in 1988.

;Men's road race

Mario Traxl
Johann Lienhart
Dietmar Hauer

;Men's team time trial

Dietmar Hauer
Norbert Kostel
Johann Lienhart
Mario Traxl

;Men's team pursuit

Roland Königshofer
Johann Lienhart
Kurt Schmied
Franz Stocher

;Men's points race

Roland Königshofer

Diving

;Men

{|class=wikitable style="font-size:90%"

!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="2"|Preliminary

!colspan="2"|Final

|-style="font-size:95%"

!Points

!Rank

!Points

!Rank

|-align=center

|align=left|Niki Stajković

|align=left rowspan=2|3 m springboard

|579.63

|9 Q

|570.60

|-align=center

|align=left|Erich Pils

|532.19

|19

|colspan=2|Did not advance

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

;Men

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan=7|Race

!rowspan=2|Net points

!rowspan=2|Final rank

|-style="font-size:95%"

|-align=center

|align=left|Thomas Wallner

|align=left|Division II

|17

|16

|<s>RET</s>

|10

|11

|91.0

|11

|-align=center

|align=left|Hans Spitzauer

|align=left|Finn

|<s>DSQ</s>

|13

|DSQ

|12

|YMP

|14

|119.7

|15

|-align=center

|align=left|Christian Binder<br/>Heimo Hecht

|align=left|470

|15

|19

|18

|16

|17

|<s>RET</s>

|RET

|151.0

|24

;Open

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan=7|Race

!rowspan=2|Net points

!rowspan=2|Final rank

|-style="font-size:95%"

|-align=center

|align=left|Norbert Petschel<br/>Christian Claus

|align=left|Tornado

|<s>11</s>

|46.0

|-align=center

|align=left|Hubert Raudaschl<br/>Stephan Puxkandl

|align=left|Star

|13

|<s>RET</s>

|11

|15

|13

|91.0

|13

Shooting

;Men

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="2"|Qualification

!colspan="2"|Final

!Score

!Rank

!Score

!Rank

|rowspan=2|Albert Deuring

|50 m rifle prone

|align="center"|589

|align="center"|45

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|10 m air rifle

|align="center"|581

|align="center"|34

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|rowspan=2|Hannes Gufler

|50 m rifle three positions

|align="center"|1155

|align="center"|38

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|10 m air rifle

|align="center"|577

|align="center"|41

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|rowspan=2|Lothar Heinrich

|50 m rifle three positions

|align="center"|1157

|align="center"|36

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|50 m rifle prone

|align="center"|595

|align="center"|15

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|rowspan=2|Hans Hierzer

|50 m pistol

|align="center"|550

|align="center"|32

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|10 m air pistol

|align="center"|565

|align="center"|40

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|rowspan=2|Horst Krasser

|50 m pistol

|align="center"|543

|align="center"|38

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|10 m air pistol

|align="center"|569

|align="center"|34

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|Hermann Sailer

|25 m rapid fire pistol

|align="center"|584

|align="center"|29

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

;Women

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="2"|Qualification

!colspan="2"|Final

!Score

!Rank

!Score

!Rank

|rowspan=2|Sylvia Baldessarini

|50 m rifle three positions

|align="center"|578

|align="center"|16

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|10 m air rifle

|align="center"|393

|align="center"|9

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|Dorothee Deuring

|50 m rifle three positions

|align="center"|576

|align="center"|20

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|rowspan=2|Christine Strahalm

|25 m pistol

|align="center"|580

|align="center"|18

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

|10 m air pistol

|align="center"|379

|align="center"|8 Q

|align="center"|472.6

|align="center"|8

|Barbara Troger

|10 m air rifle

|align="center"|383

|align="center"|33

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

;Open

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="2"|Qualification

!colspan="2"|Final

!Score

!Rank

!Score

!Rank

|Josef Hahnenkamp

|Skeet

|align="center"|143

|align="center"|33

|colspan="2" align="center"|did not advance

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

Medalists

Competitors

Athletics

Boxing

Cycling

Diving

Equestrianism

Fencing

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References