Austria at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Austria competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's twenty-ninth appearance at the Summer Olympics, except for Antwerp 1920, due to the nation's role in World War I.

Austria at the
2024 Summer Olympics
IOC codeAUT
NOCAustrian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympia.at (in German)
in Paris, France
26 July 2024 (2024-07-26) – 11 August 2024 (2024-08-11)
Competitors78 (42 men and 36 women) in 21 sports
Flag bearer (opening)Felix Oschmautz & Michaela Polleres
Flag bearer (closing)Lukas Mähr & Lara Vadlau
Medals
Ranked 36th
Gold
2
Silver
0
Bronze
3
Total
5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Medalists

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Competitors

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

Sport Men Women Total
Archery 0 1 1
Artistic swimming 0 2 2
Athletics 4 3 7
Badminton 1 0 1
Canoeing 1 2 3
Cycling 5 4 9
Diving 1 0 1
Equestrian 5 3 8
Golf 1 2 3
Gymnastics 1 1 2
Judo 3 3 6
Rowing 0 3 3
Sailing 5 4 9
Shooting 3 2 5
Sport climbing 1 1 2
Swimming 5 0 5
Table tennis 1 1 2
Taekwondo 0 1 1
Tennis 1 1 2
Triathlon 2 2 4
Volleyball 2 0 2
Total 42 36 78

Archery

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For the first time since 2016, one Austrian archer qualified for the women's individual by virtue of top three results at the 2024 European Continental Qualification Tournament in Essen, Germany.

Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Score Seed Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Elisabeth Straka Women's individual 667 10   Roeffen (NED)
L 4–6
Did not advance

Artistic swimming

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Austria fielded a squad of two artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet by topping the combination of technical and free events at the 2023 European Games in Oświęcim, Poland.[1]

Athlete Event Technical routine Free routine
Points Rank Points Rank Total (technical + free) Rank
Anna-Maria Alexandri
Eirini Alexandri
Duet 267.2533 2 288.4145 5 555.6678 4

Athletics

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Austrian track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):[2]

Key
  • Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  • Q = Qualified for the next round
  • q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  • NR = National record
  • N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  • Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
Track & road events
Athlete Event Preliminary Heat Repechage Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Markus Fuchs Men's 100 m Bye 10.59 8 Did not advance
Raphael Pallitsch Men's 1500 m 3:38.20 11 3:39.32 32 Did not advance
Enzo Diessl Men's 110 m hurdles 13.63 6 13.56 4 Did not advance
Susanne Gogl-Walli Women's 400 m 50.67 PB 2 Q Bye 51.17 7 Did Not Advance
Julia Mayer[de] Women's marathon 2:35:14 55
Field events
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Distance Position Distance Position
Lukas Weißhaidinger Men's discus throw 66.72 3 Q 67.54 5
Victoria Hudson Women's javelin throw 59.69 20 Did not advance

Badminton

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Austria entered one badminton players into the Olympic tournament based on the re-allocations of unused quota places, through the BWF Race to Paris Rankings.

Athlete Event Group stage Round of 16 Quarter-final Semi-final Final / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Collins-Valentine Filimon Men's singles   Antonsen (DEN)
L (10-21, 18-21)
  Dwicahyo (AZE)
L (18-21, 11-21)
3 Did Not Advance

Canoeing

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Slalom

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Austrian entered three boat into the slalom competition, for the Games through the 2023 European Games in Kraków, Poland; 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in London, Great Britain; and through the re-allocation of unused African continental spots.[3]

Athlete Event Preliminary Semifinal Final
Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Best Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Felix Oschmautz Men's K-1 90.07 15 92.40 16 90.07 18 Q 91.83 4 Q 90.21 10
Corinna Kuhnle Women's K-1 98.24 11 95.67 8 95.67 8 Q 106.25 12 Q 103.09 10
Viktoria Wolffhardt Women's C-1 114.27 17 110.39 12 110.39 17 Q 120.78 14 Did not advance

Kayak cross

Athlete Event Time trial Round 1 Repechage Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Position Position Position Position Position Position Rank
Felix Oschmautz Men's KX-1 67.87 7 1 Q Bye 3 Did not advance 17
Corinna Kuhnle Women's KX-1 76.55 22 4 R 3 Did not advance 33
Viktoria Wolffhardt 80.83 32 3 R 2 Q 4 Did not advance 31

Cycling

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Road

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Austria entered four road cyclists (two male and two female). Austria qualified two male and two female through the UCI Nation Ranking and 2023 World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.[4]

Men
Athlete Event Time Rank
Felix Großschartner Road race 6:21.54 26
Marco Haller 6:20.50 6
Felix Großschartner Time trial 38:17.36 19
Women
Athlete Event Time Rank
Anna Kiesenhofer Road race 4:07:16 52
Christina Schweinberger 4:04.23 28
Anna Kiesenhofer Time trial 46:28.88 33
Christina Schweinberger 41:52.02 10

Track

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Austria entered two riders for men's omnium and madison events, based on the nations performances, through the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Omnium
Athlete Event Scratch race Tempo race Elimination race Points race Total
Rank Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank Points
Tim Wafler Men's omnium 13 16 16 0 19 4 8 25 13 55
Madison
Athlete Event Points Laps Rank
Maximilian Schmidbauer
Tim Wafler
Men's madison 5 -60 14

Mountain biking

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Austrian mountain bikers secured one men and two women's quota places in the Olympic through the release of the final Olympic mountain biking rankings.

Athlete Event Time Rank
Maximilian Foidl Men's cross-country 1:31:26 22
Mona Mitterwallner Women's cross-country 1:34:44 18
Laura Stigger 1:30:15 6

Diving

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Austria entered one diver, Anton Knoll , into the Olympic competition.

Athlete Event Preliminary Semifinal Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank
Anton Knoll Men's 10 m platform 321.55 23 Did not advance

Equestrian

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Austria entered a squad of three jumping riders, three dressage riders and one eventing rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by securing the first of two available team spots at the 2023 European Jumping Championships in Milan, Italy for Group A and Group B for jumping competition; become one of three highest eligible nations at the 2023 European Dressage Championships in Riesenbeck, Germany and secured one of two available spots for Group B (South Western Europe), through the establishments of final eventing olympics ranking.[5][6] In the eventing, Austria received a last minute second individual spot, because of some withdrawals from other qualified countries.[7]

Dressage

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Athlete Horse Event Grand Prix Grand Prix Special Grand Prix Freestyle
Score Rank Score Rank Technical Artistic
Victoria Max-Theurer Abegglen FH Individual 74.301 14 Q 75.375 17
Stefan Lehfellner Roberto Carlos MT 68.183 45 Did not advance
Florian Bacher Fidertraum 71.009 26 Did not advance
Victoria Max-Theurer
Stefan Lehfellner
Florian Bacher
See above Team 213.493 8 Q 211.505 9

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final; q = Qualified for the final as a lucky loser
TF = Substituted for the team final

Eventing

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Athlete Horse Event Dressage Cross-country Jumping Total
Qualifier Final
Penalties Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Rank
Harald Ambros Vitorio du Montet Individual 36.50 49 6.80 43.30 33 10.00 53.30 34 Did Not Advance 53.30 34

Jumping

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Athlete Horse Event Qualification Final
Penalties Time Rank Penalties Time Rank
Gerfried Puck Naxcel V Individual 12.00 77.34 55 Did not advance
Max Kühner Elektric Blue P 4.00 73.04 22 Q 4.00 81.29 7
Katharina Rhomberg Cuma 5 4.00 75.55 32 Did not advance
Gerfried Puck
Max Kühner
Katharina Rhomberg
See above Team 28 13 Did not advance

Golf

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Austria entered two golfers into the Olympic tournament. Sepp Straka, Emma Spitz and Sarah Schober qualified for the games, based on their own position inside the top 60 eligible players on the IGF World Rankings.

Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total
Score Score Score Score Score Par Rank
Sepp Straka Men's 67 74 70 71 282 −2 T35
Emma Spitz Women's 75 70 75 70 290 +2 T29
Sarah Schober 75 73 73 79 300 +12 T47

Gymnastics

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Artistic

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Austria entered one gymnast to compete at the games. Charlize Moerz secured a quota place by virtue of becoming one of the highest eligible gymnast in women's floor, not yet qualified, through the final ranking of 2024 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series.

Women
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Apparatus Total Rank Apparatus Total Rank
V UB BB F V UB BB F
Charlize Moerz All-around 12.5 11.766 11.1 11.733 47.099 57 Did not advance

Trampoline

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Austria qualified a gymnast for the men's trampoline by finishing in the top five eligible nation's at the 2023 World Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[8]

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Rank
Benny Wizani Men's 54.990 15 Did not advance

Judo

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Four Austrian judokas qualified directly via the IJF Olympics rankings. Katharina Tanzer received a European continental quota place. By qualifying in the corresponding weight classes, Austria received an additional invitation quota to compete in the mixed team.[9][10] Despite qualifying, Shamil Borchashvili declined to be nominated, meaning his brother Wachid Borchashvili moved up.[11][12]

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Samuel Gassner Men's –73 kg   Bayan (SYR)
0W 10-00
  Gjakova (KOS)

L 00-10

Did Not Advance 9
Wachid Borchashvili Men's –81 kg Bye   Faizad (AFG)
W 11-000
  Grigalashvili (GEO)

L 00-0

Did Not Advance 9
Aaron Fara Men's –100 kg   Wolf (JPN)
L 00–10
Did Not Advance
Katharina Tanzer Women's –48 kg   Wong KL (HKG)
W 10–00
  Bavuudorjiin (MGL)
L 00–10
Did Not Advance 9
Lubjana Piovesana Women's –63 kg   Kujulowa (KAZ)
0W 01-00
  Renshall (GBR)

W 01-00

  Awiti Alcaraz (MEX)

L 00-01

N/A   Kim (KOR)

W 10-00

  Agbegnenou (FRA)

L 00-10

5
Michaela Polleres Women's –70 kg Bye   Yeats Brown (GBR)

W 01-00

  Gahie (FRA)

W 10-00

  Butkereit (GER)

L 00-10

N/A   Tsunoda Roustant (ESP)

W 10-00

 
Mixed
Athletes Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Samuel Gassner
Wachid Borchashvili
Aaron Fara
Katharina Tanzer
Lubjana Piovesana
Michaela Polleres
Team   Germany (GER)
0L 01-04
Did Not Advance 9

Rowing

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Austrian rowers qualified boats in the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia; and through the 2024 European Qualification Regatta in Szeged, Hungary.

Athlete Event Heats Repechage Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Magdalena Lobnig Women's single sculls 7:39.39 2 QF Bye 7:40.07 3 SA/B 7:40.02 6 FB 7:30.54 10
Louisa Altenhuber
Lara Tiefenthaler
Women's lightweight double sculls 7:24.14 4 R 7:17.77 2 SA/B 7:19.70 5 FB 7:10.02 10

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

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Austrian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands and the 2023 Nacra 17 European Championship in Vilamoura, Portugal.[13]

Elimination events
Athlete Event Opening series Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Net points Rank Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Rank
Valentin Bontus Men's Formula Kite 1 2 5 8 4 21 20 cancelled 20 4 1 Qualify to final 3 1 1 1 1 Bye 3  
Lorena Abicht Women's IQFoil 10 18 22 25 22 23 25 24 22 22 21 11 25 20 Cancelled 240 23 Did not advance 23
Alina Kornelli Women's Formula Kite 16 12 13 9 8 5 Cancelled 47 11 Did not advance 11
Medal race events
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 M*
Benjamin Bildstein
David Hussl
Men's 49er 3 5 9 11 13 17 17 19 6 16 15 10 EL 122 14
Lara Vadlau
Lukas Mähr
Mixed 470 20 5 3 1 7 1 5 2 cancelled 14 38  
Lukas Haberl
Tanja Frank
Mixed Nacra 17 16 12 14 15 16 15 15 3 8 9 10 16 EL 133 15

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

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Austrian shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2022, 2023, and 2024 European Championships, 2023 European Games, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.[14]

Athlete Event Qualification Semifinal Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank
Alexander Schmirl Men's 10 m air rifle 627.7 26 Did not advance
Martin Strempfl 627.2 28 Did not advance
Alexander Schmirl Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions 585-26x 28 Did not advance
Andreas Thum 280-24x 35 Did not advance
Nadine Ungerank Women's 10 m air rifle 626.1 28 Did not advance
Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions 589-27x 7 Q 432.1 5
Sylvia Steiner Women's 25 m pistol 581 17 Did not advance
Women's 10 m air pistol 569 27 Did not advance
Nadine Ungerank
Martin Strempfl
Mixed 10 m air rifle team 625.5 15 Did not advance

Sport climbing

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Austria entered two sport climbers into the Olympic tournament. Jakob Schubert and Jessica Pilz qualified directly for the men's and women's boulder and lead combined event, by winning the gold and silver medal and securing one of the three berths available at the 2023 IFSC World Championships in Bern, Switzerland.[15]

Boulder & lead combined
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Boulder Lead Total Rank Boulder Lead Total Rank
Result Place Result Place Result Place Result Place
Jakob Schubert Men's 48.7 6 54.1 6 98.8 5 Q 43.6 5 96.0 1 139.6  
Jessica Pilz Women's 68.8 6 88.1 3 156.9 2 Q 59.3 6 88.1 2 147.4  

Swimming

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Austrian swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):[16][17]

Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Felix Auböck Men's 200 m freestyle DNS Did not advance
Men's 400 m freestyle 3:50.50 24 Did not advance
Men's 800 m freestyle 7:48.49 13 Did not advance
Men's 10 km open water 2:03:00.5 24
Bernhard Reitshammer Men's 100 m backstroke 55.13 36 Did not advance
Men's 100 m breaststroke 59.68 11 Q 1:00.18 15 Did not advance
Simon Bucher Men's 100 m butterfly 51.55 13 Q 51.35 10 Did not advance
Martin Espernberger Men's 200 m butterfly 1:55.19 5 Q 1:54.62 8 Q 1:54.17 NR 6
Jan Hercog Men's 10 km open water 2:01:03.8 21

Table tennis

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Austria entered two table tennis players into Paris 2024. Daniel Habesohn and Sofia Polcanova qualified for the games by being nominated into top twelve ranked players, in their respective classes, through the final release of the world ranking.

Athlete Event Preliminary Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
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Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Daniel Habesohn Men's singles Bye   Robles (ESP)

L 2–4

Did Not Advance
Sofia Polcanova Women's singles Bye   Cossío (MEX)
W 4–0
  Shao (POR)
W 4–2
  Szőcs (ROU)
W 4–0
  Chen (CHN)
L 0–4
Did not advance

Taekwondo

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For the first time since 2004, Austria qualified one athlete to compete at the games. Marlene Jahl secured her spot through the re-allocations of Individual Neutral Athletes quotas, in her own division, at the 2024 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament, in Sofia, Bulgaria

Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage Final / BM
Opposition
Result
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Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Marlene Jahl Women's +67 kg   Zhou (CHN)
L 0-2
Did not advance

Tennis

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Austria entered two tennis players into the Olympic tournament. Sebastian Ofner and Julia Grabher qualified directly for the men's and women's singles as the top 56 eligible players in the World Rankings as of 10 June 2024.

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Sebastian Ofner Men's singles   Haase (NED)
W 7–5, 6–2
  Medvedev (AIN)
L 2–6, 2–6
Did not advance
Julia Grabher Women's singles   Navarro (USA)
L 2–6, 0–6
Did not advance

Triathlon

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Austria entered four triathletes (two per gender) in the triathlon events for Paris, following the release of final individual olympics qualification ranking.

Individual
Athlete Event Time Rank
Swim (1.5 km) Trans 1 Bike (40 km) Trans 2 Run (10 km) Total
Tjebbe Kaindl Men's 21:21 0:47 51:18 0:27 35:08 1:49:01 33
Alois Knabl 20:33 0:54 51:57 0:26 32:33 1:46:23 23
Julia Hauser Women's 24:41 0:57 1:00:39 0:32 34:55 2:01:44 32
Lisa Perterer 27:52 1:03 1:00:16 0:35 37:41 2:07:27 50
Relay
Athlete Event Time Rank
Swim (300 m) Trans 1 Bike (7 km) Trans 2 Run (2 km) Total group
Alois Knabl Mixed relay 4:10 1:07 9:37 0:24 5:19 20:37
Julia Hauser 5:36 1:18 11:49 0:30 6:14 25:27
Tjebbe Kaindl 5:02 1:06 10:15 0:24 5:37 22:24
Lisa Perterer 6:01 DNF
Total DNF 15

Volleyball

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Beach

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For the first time since 2016, Austrian men's pair qualified for Paris based on the FIVB Beach Volleyball Olympic Ranking.[18]

Athletes Event Preliminary round Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Julian Hörl
Alexander Horst
Men's   Evandro /
Arthur (BRA)
L 0–2
  Perušič /
Schweiner (CZE)
L 0–2
  Schachter /
Dearing (CAN)
L 0–2
4 Did not advance 19

References

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