Austria at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Austria competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 105 competitors in 12 sports. They won 14 medals in total: five gold, three silver and six bronze; ranking 10th in the medal table.

Austria at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Flag of Austria
IOC code	AUT
NOC	Austrian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympia.at (in German)
in Pyeongchang, South Korea 9–25 February 2018
Competitors	105 (65 men and 40 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Anna Veith[1]
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 5 Silver 3 Bronze 6 Total 14
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold David Gleirscher Luge Men's singles 11 February  Gold Marcel Hirscher Alpine skiing Men's combined 13 February  Gold Matthias Mayer Alpine skiing Men's super-G 16 February  Gold Marcel Hirscher Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom 18 February  Gold Anna Gasser Snowboarding Women's big air 22 February  Silver Peter Penz Georg Fischler Luge Men's doubles 14 February  Silver Anna Veith Alpine skiing Women's super-G 17 February  Silver Stephanie Brunner Manuel Feller Katharina Gallhuber Katharina Liensberger Michael Matt Marco Schwarz Alpine skiing Mixed team 24 February  Bronze Lukas Klapfer Nordic combined Individual normal hill/10km 14 February  Bronze Dominik Landertinger Biathlon Men's individual 15 February  Bronze Madeleine Egle David Gleirscher Peter Penz Georg Fischler Luge Team relay 15 February  Bronze Katharina Gallhuber Alpine skiing Women's slalom 16 February  Bronze Michael Matt Alpine skiing Men's slalom 22 February  Bronze Wilhelm Denifl Bernhard Gruber Lukas Klapfer Mario Seidl Nordic combined Team large hill/4 × 5 km 22 February

Medals by sport Sport Total Alpine skiing 3 2 2 7 Luge 1 1 1 3 Nordic combined 0 0 1 1 Biathlon 0 0 1 1 Snowboarding 1 0 0 1 Total 5 3 6 14 Medals by date Day Date Total Day 2 10 February 0 0 0 0 Day 3 11 February 1 0 0 1 Day 4 12 February 0 0 0 0 Day 5 13 February 1 0 0 1 Day 6 14 February 0 1 1 2 Day 7 15 February 0 0 2 2 Day 8 16 February 1 0 1 2 Day 9 17 February 0 1 0 1 Day 10 18 February 1 0 0 1 Day 11 19 February 0 0 0 0 Day 12 20 February 0 0 0 0 Day 13 21 February 0 0 0 0 Day 14 22 February 1 0 2 3 Day 15 23 February 0 0 0 0 Day 16 24 February 0 1 0 1 Day 17 25 February 0 0 0 0 Total 5 3 6 14

On 22 January 2018, alpine skier Anna Veith was named as the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.^[2] During the announcement it was also announced the Austrian team would be composed of 105 athletes (65 men and 40 women) competing in 12 sports.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the delegation per sport.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine Skiing	11	11	22
Biathlon	6	3	9
Bobsleigh	8	4	12
Cross-country skiing	4	3	7
Figure skating	1	1	2
Freestyle skiing	7	5	12
Luge	7	3	10
Nordic combined	5	0	5
Skeleton	1	1	2
Ski jumping	5	3	8
Snowboarding	9	5	14
Speed skating	1	1	2
Total	65	40	105

Alpine skiing

Main articles: Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Brennsteiner	Giant slalom	1:10.02	14	DNF
Manuel Feller	Giant slalom	DSQ
	Slalom	49.35	16	51.03	6	1:40.38	15
Max Franz	Downhill	—				1:41.75	11
	Super-G	—				1:25.96	17
Christian Hirschbühl	Giant slalom	DNF
Marcel Hirscher	Combined	1:20.56	12	45.96	1	2:06.52
	Giant slalom	1:08.27	1	1:09.77	2	2:18.04
	Slalom	DNF
Vincent Kriechmayr	Downhill	—				1:41.19	7
	Super-G	—				1:25.13	6
	Combined	1:19.96	7	DNF
Matthias Mayer	Downhill	—				1:41.46	9
	Super-G	—				1:24.44
	Combined	1:19.37	3	DNF
Michael Matt	Slalom	49.00	12	50.66	1	1:39.66
Hannes Reichelt	Downhill	—				1:41.76	12
	Super-G	—				1:25.40	11
Marco Schwarz	Combined	1:20.98	19	46.89	5	2:07.87	4
	Slalom	48.62	8	51.57	19	1:40.19	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stephanie Brunner	Giant slalom	1:11.53	9	DNF
	Slalom	DNF
Katharina Gallhuber	Slalom	50.12	5	48.83	1	1:38.95
Ricarda Haaser	Combined	1:41.75	7	43.06	14	2:24.81	13
	Giant slalom	1:13.37	19	1:09.99	14	2:23.36	17
Cornelia Hütter	Downhill	—				1:41.04	13
	Super-G	—				1:21.54	8
Katharina Liensberger	Slalom	50.43	10	50.14	8	1:40.57	8
Bernadette Schild	Giant slalom	1:14.50	28	1:10.31	19	2:24.81	24
	Slalom	49.89	8	50.29	9	1:40.18	7
Nicole Schmidhofer	Downhill	—				1:41.02	12
	Super-G	—				1:22.30	18
Ramona Siebenhofer	Downhill	—				1:40.98	10
	Combined	1:40.34	4	43.11	15	2:23.45	7
Tamara Tippler	Super-G	—				1:22.50	21
Anna Veith	Super-G	—				1:21.12
	Giant slalom	1:12.43	15	1:09.67	10	2:22.10	12
Stephanie Venier	Downhill	—				DNF
	Slalom	DNS

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Manuel Feller Michael Matt Marco Schwarz Stephanie Brunner Katharina Gallhuber Katharina Liensberger	Team	South Korea (KOR) W 4–0	Sweden (SWE) W 4–0	Norway (NOR) W 3–1	Switzerland (SUI) L 1–3

Biathlon

Main articles: Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Based on their Nations Cup rankings in the 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup, Austria has qualified 6 men and 5 women.^[3][4] However, they forfeited 2 female quota.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Julian Eberhard	Sprint	23:47.2	1 (0+1)	4
	Pursuit	34:36.9	6 (0+1+3+2)	15
	Individual	50:15.6	3 (1+1+0+1)	17
	Mass start	36:18.0	3 (1+0+1+1)	6
Tobias Eberhard	Sprint	26:24.3	5 (4+1)	77
	Individual	53:33.6	4 (1+1+0+2)	57
Simon Eder	Sprint	24:42.5	2 (2+0)	28
	Pursuit	34:33.1	2 (0+0+0+2)	14
	Individual	49:55.8	2 (1+0+1+0)	11
Mass start	37:01.0	3 (1+0+0+2)	14
Dominik Landertinger	Sprint	24:36.2	1 (1+0)	25
	Pursuit	36:22.2	5 (0+0+1+4)	26
	Individual	48:18.0	0 (0+0+0+0)
	Mass start	36:47.3	1 (0+0+1+0)	12
Julian Eberhard Tobias Eberhard Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	Team relay	1:18:09.0	13 (2+11)	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Lisa Hauser	Sprint	23:58.9	4 (3+1)	62
	Individual	45:35.4	3 (1+1+0+1)	41
Katharina Innerhofer	Sprint	22:51.5	1 (0+1)	29
	Pursuit	34:41.2	5 (1+2+0+2)	40
	Individual	47:34.9	5 (2+1+0+2)	60
Dunja Zdouc	Sprint	23:21.0	0 (0+0)	48
	Pursuit	38:39.1	8 (1+3+1+3)	58
	Individual	47:09.0	2 (1+1+0+0)	58

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Lisa Hauser Katharina Innerhofer	Team relay	1:10:56.3	14 (6+8)	10

Bobsleigh

Main articles: Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Based on their rankings in the 2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup, Austria has qualified 6 sleds.^[5][6][7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Benjamin Maier* Markus Sammer	Two-man	49.41	9	49.47	6	49.32	=5	49.56	10	3:17.76	8
Markus Treichl* Kilian Walch		49.67	13	49.67	15	49.56	14	49.66	13	3:18.56	15
Benjamin Maier* Dănuț Moldovan Markus Sammer Kilian Walch	Four-man	49.10	14	49.21	5	49.03	7	49.56	4	3:16.90	7
Markus Treichl* Ekemini Bassey Markus Glueck Marco Rangl		49.73	24	49.83	22	49.68	20	Eliminated		2:29.24	22

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Katrin Beierl* Victoria Hahn	Two-woman	51.49	19	51.41	16	51.51	17	51.43	16	3:25.84	18
Christina Hengster* Valerie Kleiser		51.23	14	51.04	9	51.00	8	51.24	11	3:24.51	10

* – Denotes the driver of each sled

Cross-country skiing

Main articles: Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Austria has qualified 4 men and 3 women.

Distance

Men

Athlete	Event	Classical		Freestyle		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Deficit	Rank
Dominik Baldauf	15 km freestyle	—				36:31.2	+2:47.3	42
Max Hauke	15 km freestyle	—				35:57.5	+2:13.6	29
	30 km skiathlon	41:15.7	29	36:57.5	32	1:18:44.6	+2:24.6	27
	50 km classical	—				2:20:39.9	+12:17.8	36
Bernhard Tritscher	15 km freestyle	—				36:24.7	+2:40.8	39
	50 km classical	—				2:22:47.7	+14:25.6	42
Dominik Baldauf Max Hauke Luis Stadlober Bernhard Tritscher	4 × 10 km relay	—				1:39:12.9	+6:08.0	13

Women

Athlete	Event	Classical		Freestyle		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Deficit	Rank
Anna Seebacher	10 km freestyle	—				29:11.2	+4:10.7	61
Teresa Stadlober	10 km freestyle	—				26:16.1	+1:15.6	9
	15 km skiathlon	21:25.8	6	19:15.3	7	41:11.5	+26.6	7
	30 km classical	—				1:26:31.7	+4:14.1	9
Lisa Unterweger	10 km freestyle	—				29:35.2	+4:34.7	67

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dominik Baldauf	Men's sprint	3:18.54	35	Did not advance
Luis Stadlober		3:23.01	53	Did not advance
Dominik Baldauf Bernhard Tritscher	Men's team sprint	—				16:43.69	8	Did not advance
Lisa Unterweger	Women's sprint	3:34.29	50	Did not advance
Teresa Stadlober Lisa Unterweger	Women's team sprint	—				17:25.98	7	Did not advance

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Austria qualified one entry in pairs figure skating through the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy.^[8] The pair was announced on 18 December 2017.^[9]

Athlete	Event	SP		FS		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Pairs	58.80	20	Did not advance

Freestyle skiing

Main articles: Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Austria has qualified 7 men and 5 women.

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Andreas Gohl	Men's halfpipe	68.60	31.60	68.60	12 Q	14.60	46.00	68.80	68.80	8
Marco Ladner		54.20	39.40	54.20	21	Did not advance
Lukas Müllauer		17.00	63.60	63.60	16	Did not advance
Elisabeth Gram	Women's halfpipe	72.20	20.00	72.20	13	Did not advance

Moguls

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Run 1				Run 2				Run 1				Run 2				Run 3
		Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank
Melanie Meilinger	Women's moguls	33.78	45.02	54.95	25	34.61	48.71	57.71	16	Did not advance

Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Adam Kappacher	Men's ski cross	1:10.17	16	2 Q	DNF	Did not advance
Christoph Wahrstötter		1:09.79	6	DNF	Did not advance
Robert Winkler		1:10.09	11	1 Q	DNF	Did not advance
Thomas Zangerl		1:10.96	28	2 Q	3	Did not advance
Andrea Limbacher	Women's ski cross	1:14.71	8	DNF	Did not advance
Katrin Ofner		1:14.30	7	1 Q	3	Did not advance

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Lara Wolf	Women's slopestyle	10.20	66.40	66.40	16	Did not advance

Luge

Main articles: Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Based on the results from the World Cups during the 2017–18 Luge World Cup season, Austria qualified 8 sleds.^[10]

Gleirscher's unexpected win in the men's individual luge event was the first win in the event for an Austrian since the 1968 Olympics.^[11]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reinhard Egger	Singles	48.221	20	47.903	11	47.963	17	47.840	10	3:11.927	15
David Gleirscher		47.652	1	47.835	7	47.584	4	47.631	4	3:10.702
Wolfgang Kindl		47.955	11	47.858	9	47.799	12	47.521	2	3:11.133	9
Georg Fischler Peter Penz	Doubles	45.891	2	45.894	2	—				1:31.785
Lorenz Koller Thomas Steu		46.172	5	46.112	5	—				1:32.284	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Madeleine Egle	Singles	46.726	14	46.646	14	46.541	6	46.696	7	3:06.609	9
Birgit Platzer		47.318	18	DNF		DNS		Eliminated		DNF
Hannah Prock		46.622	13	46.585	13	47.743	25	46.854	12	3:07.804	17

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Madeleine Egle David Gleirscher Georg Fischler Peter Penz	Team relay	47.122	5	48.758	3	49.108	4	2:24.988

Nordic combined

Main articles: Nordic combined at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Nordic combined at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Austria has qualified 5 men:

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping			Cross-country		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Wilhelm Denifl	Normal hill/10 km	92.0	92.3	25	25:08.8	27	27:41.8	29
	Large hill/10 km	137.5	135.0	3	24:38.6	34	24:54.6	8
Bernhard Gruber	Normal hill/10 km	91.5	88.2	33	24:32.1	10	27:22.1	20
	Large hill/10 km	133.5	98.5	30	23:46.3	14	26:28.3	21
Lukas Klapfer	Normal hill/10 km	109.0	122.6	4	24:37.5	11	25:09.5
	Large hill/10 km	131.0	123.0	10	24:11.3	23	25:15.3	9
Franz-Josef Rehrl	Normal hill/10 km	112.0	130.6	1	26:29.5	44	26:29.5	13
Mario Seidl	Large hill/10 km	127.0	116.5	14	23:51.0	16	25:21.0	13
Wilhelm Denifl Bernhard Gruber Lukas Klapfer Mario Seidl	Team large hill/4 x 5 km	536.5	469.5	1	47:17.6	5	47:17.6

Skeleton

Main articles: Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Based on the world rankings, Austria qualified 3 sleds, but rejected one male quota.^[12][13]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Matthias Guggenberger	Men's	51.38	16	51.29	17	51.81	25	51.25	13	3:25.73	18
Janine Flock	Women's	51.81	3	52.07	3	51.92	4	52.12	10	3:27.92	4

Ski jumping

Main articles: Ski jumping at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Ski jumping at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Austria has qualified 5 men and 3 women:

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			First round			Final			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Clemens Aigner	Large hill	119.5	98.5	27 Q	121.0	110.0	31	Did not advance
Manuel Fettner	Normal hill	95.0	109.4	27 Q	96.5	99.5	29 Q	105.5	112.2	14	211.7	23
	Large hill	111.0	84.8	40 Q	124.0	109.8	32	Did not advance
Michael Hayböck	Normal hill	97.0	112.4	26 Q	99.5	109.2	21 Q	103.0	110.5	17	219.7	17
	Large hill	133.5	126.9	5 Q	140.0	140.4	2 Q	131.0	127.3	9	267.7	6
Stefan Kraft	Normal hill	102.5	128.6	5 Q	103.5	122.8	5 Q	103.0	110.8	16	233.6	11
	Large hill	131.0	121.1	11 Q	131.5	130.6	13 Q	125.5	116.8	21	247.4	18
Gregor Schlierenzauer	Normal hill	91.5	104.0	32 Q	102.5	108.6	22 Q	99.5	103.6	22	212.2	22
Manuel Fettner Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft Gregor Schlierenzauer	Team large hill	—			517.0	493.7	4 Q	511.0	484.7	4	978.4	4

Women

Athlete	Event	First round			Final			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Chiara Hölzl	Normal hill	88.0	92.2	14	95.5	101.0	9	193.2	11
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz		101.5	113.3	5	99.0	112.6	7	225.9	6
Jacqueline Seifriedsberger		93.0	93.7	13	92.0	89.8	14	183.5	13

Snowboarding

Main articles: Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Austria has qualified 9 men and 5 women:

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Clemens Millauer	Men's big air	39.25	47.00	47.00	16	Did not advance
	Men's slopestyle	75.65	77.45	77.45	7	Did not advance
Anna Gasser	Women's big air	88.25	98.00	98.00	1 Q	JNS	89.00	96.00	185.00
	Women's slopestyle	Canceled				42.05	46.56	CAN	46.56	15

Qualification Legend: QF – Qualify directly to final; QS – Qualify to semifinal

Parallel

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Benjamin Karl	Men's giant slalom	1:25.33	6 Q	Prommegger (AUT) W –0.29	Lee S–h (KOR) L +0.94	Did not advance
Sebastian Kislinger		1:25.59	10 Q	Baumeister (GER) L +0.22	Did not advance
Alexander Payer		1:25.30	5 Q	Coratti (ITA) L +0.33	Did not advance
Andreas Prommegger		1:25.67	11 Q	Karl (AUT) L +0.29	Did not advance
Julia Dujmovits	Women's giant slalom	1:33.16	11 Q	Takeuchi (JPN) L +0.17	Did not advance
Ina Meschik		1:33.23	13 Q	Langenhorst (GER) W –0.02	Hofmeister (GER) L +0.78	Did not advance
Claudia Riegler		DNF		Did not advance
Daniela Ulbing		1:33.07	8 Q	Bykova (OAR) W –0.52	Ledecká (CZE) L +0.97	Did not advance

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Seeding						1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Run 1		Run 2		Best	Seed
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank			Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Hanno Douschan	Men's snowboard cross	1:14.53	16	Bye		1:14.53	16	4	Did not advance
Alessandro Hämmerle		1:15.03	24	Bye		1:15.03	24	1 Q	3 Q	5 FB	7	7
Lukas Pachner		1:16.99	33	1:17.48	11	1:16.99	38	5	Did not advance
Markus Schairer		1:14.56	17	Bye		1:14.56	17	3 Q	DNF	Did not advance

Qualification legend: FA-Qualify to medal round; FB- Qualify to consolation round

Speed skating

Main articles: Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Austria earned the following quotas at the conclusion of the four World Cup's used for qualification.^[14]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Vanessa Herzog	Women's 500 m	37.51	4
	Women's 1500 m	1:14.47	5

Mass start

Athlete	Event	Semifinal			Final
		Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank
Linus Heidegger	Men's mass start	60	8:20.46	1 Q	6	7:52.38	6