Austria at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Austria took part in the II Olympic Winter Games in 1928 in St. Moritz with a delegation of 39 athletes, including 34 men and 5 women, in part. Marked the first time the banns, in addition to the successful figure skaters also from athletes in the areas of speed skating, ice hockey, Nordic skiing and skeleton.

  • 2.1 Bob
  • 2.2 Hockey
  • 2.3 Figure Skating 2.3.1 Men
  • 2.3.2 Women

Medals

Silver Medals

  • Willy Böckl (Figure Skating, Singles, Men )
  • Elisabeth Scholz and Otto Kaiser ( figure skating, pairs skating )

Bronze Medal

Participants and Results

Bob

  • Austria I: Gustav Mader, Ferdinand Langer, Franz Pamperl, Walter Very Hugo and wine stems ( disqualified because they lost a team member )
  • Austria II: Franz Lorenz, Benno Karner, Richard Lorenz, Franz Wohlgemuth and Eduard Pech Anda ( 22nd place )

Hockey

  • Herbert Brück
  • Walter Brück
  • Jacques Dietrichsteinplatz
  • Hans Ertl
  • Josef Göbl
  • Hans Kail
  • Herbert sound
  • Ulrich Lederer
  • Walter Sell
  • Reginald Spevak
  • Hans Tatzer
  • Hermann White

Figure skating

Gentlemen

  • Willy Böckl Silver Medal (Single)
  • Otto Kaiser Silver Medal ( pair of running with Elisabeth " Lilly" Scholz )
  • Karl Schäfer 4th Place (Single)
  • Ludwig Wrede Bronze Medal ( pair of running with Melitta Brunner ) 8th Place (Single)

Ladies

  • Melitta Brunner Bronze Medal ( pair of running Ludwig Wrede ) 7th Place (Single)
  • Ilse Hornung 8th Place (Single)
  • Grete Kubischek 17th Place (Single)
  • Lilly Scholz Silver Medal ( pair skating with Otto Kaiser)

Speed ​​Skating

  • Fritz Moser 18th place (500 m) 15th place (1500 m) 27th place (5000 m)
  • Otto Polacsek 21 square (500 m) 8th Place (5000 m)
  • Rudolf Riedl 24th place (500 m) 21 Course ( 1500 m ) 26th place (5000 m)

Skeleton

  • Louis Hasenknopf 8th Place (Single)
  • Franz Unterlechner 6th Place (Single)

Nordic skiing

( Cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined )

Austria's representative in the Nordic skiing were the brothers paumgarten from Graz, Salzburg Heinz Hinterauer and Harald Bosio by the National Ski Association for Vienna and Lower Austria. The Olympics were for Austria's Nordic athletes but did not do well. Hinterauer could not participate in the competitions due to angina, the Styrian Fridtjof paumgarten broke in training for jumping in a fall the thigh. In the long- run competition Harald Bosio suffered a Ski break and had to give up in the race lying. In jumping he came up with widths of 51 and 52 meters, at least on the 29th place. Only Harald paumgarten remained of injuries and mishaps spared, but was by then his good form not to react at the competitions.

  • Harald Bosio 29th place ( ski jumping normal hill ) Cross-country skiing 18 km (task due to a Skibruchs )
  • Heinz Hinterauer
  • Fridtjof paumgarten
  • Harald paumgarten 17th Place ( cross-country skiing 18 km) 17th Place (Nordic Combined, Single)
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