Austria at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Austria at the
1964 Winter Olympics

IOC code| AUT
NOC| Austrian Olympic Committee
Website| www.olympia.at (in German)
in Innsbruck
Competitors| 83 (69 men, 14 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer| Regine Heitzer (figure skating)
Medals
Ranked 2nd|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

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Austria was the host nation of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

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Gold | Egon Zimmermann | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill
Gold | Pepi Stiegler | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom
Gold | Christl Haas | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill
Gold | Josef Feistmantl
Manfred Stengl | Luge | Men's doubles
Silver | Karl Schranz | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom
Silver | Edith Zimmermann | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill
Silver | Erwin Thaler
Adolf Koxeder
Josef Nairz
Reinhold Durnthaler | Bobsleigh | Four-man
Silver | Regine Heitzer | Figure skating | Women's singles
Silver | Reinhold Senn
Helmut Thaler | Luge | Men's doubles
Bronze | Pepi Stiegler | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom
Bronze | Traudl Hecher | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill
Bronze | Leni Thurner | Luge | Women's singles

## Alpine skiing

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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Event  | Race

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Time  | Rank
Karl Schranz | Downhill  | 2:20.98  | 11
Heini Meßner | 2:20.74  | 10
Gerhard Nenning | 2:19.98  | 7
Egon Zimmermann | 2:18.16  |
Egon Zimmermann | Giant Slalom  | DNF  | -
Gerhard Nenning | 1:49.68  | 6
Pepi Stiegler | 1:48.05  |
Karl Schranz | 1:47.09  |

Men's slalom
Athlete  | Qualifying  | Final

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Time 1  | Rank  | Time 2  | Rank  | Time 1  | Rank  | Time 2  | Rank  | Total  | Rank
Hias Leitner | 54.90  | 20 QF | - | - | 1:17.07  | 29  | 1:02.57  | 12  | 2:19.64  | 21
Gerhard Nenning | 53.60  | 10 QF | - | - | 1:10.29  | 4  | 1:02.91  | 13  | 2:13.20  | 7
Karl Schranz | 53.55  | 8 QF | - | - | 1:10.04  | 2  | 1:11.54  | 36  | 2:21.58  | 24
Pepi Stiegler | 53.41  | 6 QF | - | - | 1:09.03  | 1  | 1:02.10  | 8  | 2:11.13  |

Women
Athlete  | Event  | Race 1  | Race 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Edda Kainz | Downhill  |  | 2:02.69  | 22
Traudl Hecher |  | 1:56.66  |
Edith Zimmermann |  | 1:56.42  |
Christl Haas |  | 1:55.39  |
Marianne Jahn-Nutt | Giant Slalom  |  | 1:55.95  | 13
Traudl Hecher |  | 1:54.55  | 8
Edith Zimmermann |  | 1:54.21  | 6
Christl Haas |  | 1:53.86  | 4
Marianne Jahn-Nutt | Slalom  | DNF  | - | - | - | DNF  | -
Christl Haas | 46.43  | 10  | 48.68  | 5  | 1:35.11  | 6
Edith Zimmermann | 46.24  | 9  | 48.03  | 4  | 1:34.27  | 5
Traudl Hecher | 44.52  | 3  | DNF  | - | DNF  | -

## Biathlon

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Main article: Biathlon at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Time  | Misses  | Adjusted time 1 | Rank

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20 km  | Paul Ernst | DNF  | - | - | DNF
Adolf Scherwitzl | 1'36:12.7  | 6  | 1'48:12.7  | 41
Walter Müller | 1'25:12.3  | 7  | 1'39:12.3  | 34
Hansjörg Farbmacher | 1'28:11.3  | 4  | 1'36:11.3  | 28

1 Two minutes added per miss.

## Bobsleigh

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Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics

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  | Erwin Thaler
Josef Nairz | Two-man  | 1:05.72  | 4  | 1:06.98  | 11  | 1:06.48  | 8  | 1:06.33  | 5  | 4:25.51  | 8
AUT-2  | Franz Isser
Reinhold Durnthaler | Two-man  | 1:06.94  | 11  | 1:06.71  | 9  | 1:07.40  | 15  | 1:07.04  | 10  | 4:28.09  | 9
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  | Erwin Thaler
Adolf Koxeder
Josef Nairz
Reinhold Durnthaler | Four-man  | 1:03.67  | 3  | 1:03.94  | 3  | 1:03.74  | 3  | 1:04.13  | 3  | 4:15.48  |
AUT-2  | Paul Aste
Herbert Gruber
Andreas Arnold
Hans Stoll | Four-man  | 1:04.65  | 14  | 1:04.40  | 9  | 1:04.43  | 6  | 1:04.25  | 4  | 4:17.73  | 7

## Cross-country skiing

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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
15 km  | Günther Rieger | 1'01:07.3  | 59
Anton Kogler | 59:10.6  | 53
Hubert Schrott | 59:01.7  | 52
Hermann Lackner | 58:04.0  | 48
30 km  | Franz Vetter | DNF  | -
Hermann Mayr | 1'48:53.3  | 56
Hansjörg Farbmacher | 1'41:37.1  | 36
Andreas Janc | 1'40:23.3  | 31
50 km  | Hermann Mayr | 3'08:48.6  | 33
Andreas Janc | 2'58:43.8  | 21

Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes  | Race

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Time  | Rank
Günther Rieger
Hansjörg Farbmacher
Anton Kogler
Andreas Janc | 2'34:48.9  | 11

Women
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
5 km  | Heiderun Ludwig | 20:11.3  | 20
10 km  | Heiderun Ludwig | 47:27.6  | 25

## Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | CF  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Wolfgang Schwarz | 17  | 13  | 1695.9  | 127  | 15
Peter Jonas | 9  | 6  | 1752.0  | 79  | 7
Emmerich Danzer | 5  | 3  | 1824.0  | 42  | 5

Women
Athlete  | CF  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Ingrid Ostler | 16  | 20  | 1684.8  | 171  | 20
Helli Sengtschmid | 18  | 3  | 1782.1  | 85  | 9
Regine Heitzer | 2  | 5  | 1945.5  | 22  |

Pairs
Athletes  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Ingeborg Strell
Ferdinand Dedovich | 83.6  | 129  | 15
Gerlinde Schönbauer
Wilhelm Bietak | 87.7  | 108  | 12

## Ice hockey

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics

### First round

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Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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Austria | 2–8  |  Finland

### Consolation Round

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Rank  | Team  | Pld  | W  | L  | T  | GF  | GA  | Pts

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9 |  Poland | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 12
10 |  Norway | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 10
11 |  Japan | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 31 | 9
12 |  Romania | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 28 | 7
13 |  Austria | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 28 | 7
14 |  Yugoslavia | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 37 | 7
15 |  Italy | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 42 | 4
16 |  Hungary | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 39 | 0

* Austria 6-2 Yugoslavia
* Austria 3-0 Hungary
* Austria 5-5 Japan
* Austria 2-5 Romania
* Austria 5-3 Italy
* Austria 2-8 Norway
* Austria 1-5 Poland

| Contestants
Adolf Bachura
Horst Kakl
Dieter Kalt
Christian Kirchberger
Hermann Knoll
Eduard Mössmer
Tassilo Neuwirth
Alfred Püls
Sepp Puschnig
Erich Romauch
Fritz Spielmann
Sel Saint John
Gustav Tischer
Friedrich Turek
Fritz Wechselberger
Erich Winkler
Walter Znenahlik

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## Luge

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Main article: Luge at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Run 4  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Franz Tiefenbacher | 53.31  | 11  | 53.04  | 8  | 54.00  | 13  | 53.51  | 8  | 3:33.86  | 8
Manfred Schmid | 53.27  | 10  | 52.86  | 7  | 53.82  | 12  | 54.09  | 13  | 3:34.04  | 9
Reinhold Senn | 52.32  | 5  | 1:03.85  | 28  | 53.43  | 7  | 53.37  | 5  | 3:42.97  | 21
Josef Feistmantl | 52.14  | 4  | 52.58  | 4  | 53.51  | 8  | 53.11  | 3  | 3:31.34  | 5

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Josef Feistmantl
Manfred Stengl | 50.57  | 1  | 51.05  | 2  | 1:41.62  |
Reinhold Senn
Helmut Thaler | 51.02  | 2  | 50.89  | 1  | 1:41.91  |

Women
Athlete  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Run 4  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Antonia Lanthaler | 54.30  | 11  | DNF  | - | - | - | - | - | DNF  | -
Friederike Matejka | 53.61  | 8  | 52.98  | 5  | 53.94  | 8  | 54.15  | 9  | 3:34.68  | 7
Leni Thurner | 52.08  | 4  | 52.08  | 3  | 52.42  | 5  | 52.48  | 3  | 3:29.06  |

## Nordic combined

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Main article: Nordic combined at the 1964 Winter Olympics

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  | 57.0  | 64.5  | 181.6  | 25  | 57:09.8  | 160.26  | 29  | 341.86  | 28
Waldemar Heigenhauser | 67.5  | 67.0  | 210.4  | 11  | 56:24.1  | 168.32  | 25  | 378.72  | 19
Willy Köstinger | 70.5  | 66.5  | 225.5  | 5  | 54:35.5  | 188.18  | 18  | 413.68  | 10
Franz Scherübl | 54.5  | 61.0  | 169.6  | 27  | 56:19.9  | 169.00  | 24  | 338.60  | 29

## Ski jumping

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete  | Event  | Jump 1  | Jump 2  | Total

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Distance  | Points  | Distance  | Points  | Points  | Rank
Willi Egger | Normal hill  | 71.0  | 94.5  | 71.5  | 92.9  | 187.4  | 44
Sepp Lichtenegger | 75.0  | 102.1  | 75.0  | 103.3  | 205.4  | 11
Otto Leodolter | 74.0  | 99.7  | 72.0  | 97.6  | 197.3  | 28
Baldur Preiml | 75.0  | 101.1  | 76.0  | 103.5  | 204.6  | 13
Sepp Lichtenegger | Large hill  | 87.0  | 102.0  | 68.0  | 77.9  | 179.9  | 43
Otto Leodolter | 87.0  | 101.1  | 85.0  | 102.9  | 204.0  | 17
Willi Egger | 86.5  | 100.0  | 87.0  | 106.0  | 206.0  | 12
Baldur Preiml | 87.0  | 106.0  | 78.0  | 97.2  | 203.2  | 18

## Speed skating

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Main article: Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
500 m  | Peter Toyfl | 43.7  | 36
Manfred Zojer | 43.5  | 35
1500 m  | Erich Korbel | DSQ  | -
Josef Reisinger | 2:27.8  | 51
Peter Toyfl | 2:24.2  | 48
Hermann Strutz | 2:18.0  | 33
5000 m  | Gerhard Strutz | 8:50.4  | 42
Reinhold Seeböck | 8:29.6  | 37
Hermann Strutz | 7:48.3  | 5
10,000 m  | Hermann Strutz | 16:42.6  | 11

## References

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* Official Olympic Reports
* International Olympic Committee results database
* Olympic Winter Games 1964, full results by sports-reference.com

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