Austria is competing with 26 athletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
Medalists
The following Austrian competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
Medal Name Sport Event Date Equestrian Individual championship test grade Ib Paracanoeing Men's KL2 Cycling Men's road time trial H3 Cycling Men's road time trial H4 Equestrian Individual freestyle test grade Ib Table tennis Men's individual Class 10 Swimming Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8 Athletics Men's 400 metres T47 Athletics Women's javelin throw F13
Support “Project Rio 2016” was created by the government to support Paralympic athletes seeking to qualify for the Rio Games. The former Austrian Minister of Sport Gerald Klug met with Paralympians Andreas Onea and Sabine Weber-Treiber as part of this program. The current Minister of Sports is Hans Peter Doskozil.
Disability classifications
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
Athletics
Men Track & road events AthleteEventHeat FinalResultRankResultRankMario BauerMarathon T46colspan=22:58:345Thomas Geierspichler100 metres T5219.8212did not advance400 metres T521:03.279did not advanceGünther Matzinger400 metres T4749.90 SB3 Q48.95 SB
Field events AthleteEventFinalDistancePositionBil MarinkovicDiscus throw F1137.22 SB4
Women Field events AthleteEventFinalDistancePositionNatalija EderJavelin throw F1340.49 PB
Paracanoe
Men
AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMarkus SwobodaKL244.5251 FAcolspan=243.726
Cycling
With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Austria qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.
Road
Men AthleteEventTimeRankWalter AblingerRoad race H31:53:2911Road time trial H329:26.01Wolfgang EibeckRoad race C4–52:17:458Road time trial C538:15.056Thomas FrühwirthRoad race H41:28:597Road time trial H427:49.31Wolfgang SchattauerRoad race H21:31:397Road time trial H237:56.397Walter AblingerThomas FrühwirthWolfgang SchattauerMixed team relay35:385
Track
Pursuit AthleteEventQualificationFinalTimeRankOpponentResultsRankWolfgang EibeckMen's individual pursuit C54:49.6448did not advance
Equestrian
The country qualified to participate in the team event at the Rio Games.
AthleteHorseEventScoreRankThomas HallerPuschkin 7Individual championship test grade IIMichael KnauderContessa 15 Individual championship test grade Ia68.08714Pepo PuchFontainenoir Individual championship test grade Ib75.103 Individual freestyle test grade Ib76.750Julia SciancaleporePommery 4 Individual championship test grade Ia66.30419Thomas HallerMichael KnauderPepo PuchJulia SciancaleporeSee aboveTeam418.1608
Rowing
AthleteEventHeatsRepechageFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMaria DornThomas EbnerGerheid PahlBenjamin StrasserMixed coxed four3:47.136 R3:58.965 FB3:45.9811
Sailing
One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had nor already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships. Austria qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the 2.4m event with a ninth-place finish overall and the first country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. The boat was crewed by Sven Reiger.
AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank1234567891011Sven ReigerNorlin Mark 3 / 2.5 metre88657611121013138611
Swimming
Swimmers Andreas Onea and Sabine Weber-Treiber were Paralympic swimmers who benefited from the Austrian government's “Project Rio 2016”.
Men AthleteEventHeatsFinalResultRankResultRankAndreas Onea50m freestyle S829.4915did not advance100m breaststroke SB8colspan=21:14.44100m butterfly S81:04.846 Q1:05.236200m individual medley SM82:35.349did not advance
Women AthleteEventHeatsFinalResultRankResultRankSabine Weber-Treiber50m freestyle S637.8910did not advance100m freestyle S61:27.8816did not advance100m breaststroke SB51:53.738 Q
Table tennis
Men AthleteEventGroup StageRound 1QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankEgon KrammingerIndividual C3L 0–3L 0–33did not advanceStanislaw FraczykIndividual C9W 3–2W 3–01 QL 1–3did not advanceKrisztian GardosIndividual C10W 3–1W 3–21 QW 3–2L 0–3W 3–0Stanislaw FraczykKrisztian GardosTeam C9–10colspan=3L 1–2did not advance
Women AthleteEventGroup StageRound 1QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankDoris MaderIndividual C3L 0–3W 3–02 QL 0–3did not advance
Wheelchair tennis Austria qualified two competitors in the men's single event, Nico Langmann and Martin Legner.
Men AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankNico LangmannSinglesL 0–6, 3–6did not advanceMartin LegnerL 1–6, 3–6did not advanceNico LangmannMartin LegnerDoublesL 2–6, 0–6did not advance
See also Austria at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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