Austria competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 111 competitors, 97 men and 14 women, took part in 68 events in 15 sports.
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Canoeing Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles Athletics Women's High Jump Shooting Men's Free Pistol
Athletics
Men's 100 metres Axel Nepraunik First Heat — 10.61s (→ did not advance)
Men's 4 × 100 m Relay Georg Regner, Axel Nepraunik, Gunther Würfel, and Helmut Lang Heat — 40.49s Semifinals — DNF (→ did not advance)
Boxing
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg) Franz Csandl First Round — Bye Second Round — Lost to Rolando Garbey (CUB), 0:5
Canoeing
Cycling
Five cyclists represented Austria in 1972.
Individual road race Roman Humenberger — 14th place Johann Summer — 46th place Wolfgang Steinmayr — 55th place Rudolf Mitteregger — 71st place
Team time trial Sigi Denk Roman Humenberger Rudolf Mitteregger Johann Summer
Diving
Men's 3m Springboard: Rudolf Kruspel — 293.58 points (→ 31st place) Josef Kien — 285.30 points (→ 32nd place)
Men's 10m Platform: Nikola Stajkovic — 280.29 points (→ 18th place) Rudolf Kruspel — 248.07 points (→ 33rd place)
Women's 10m Platform: Ingeborg Pertmayr — 321.03 points (→ 8th place)
Equestrian
Fencing
13 fencers, 8 men and 5 women, represented Austria in 1972.
Men's foil Roland Losert
Men's épée Rudolf Trost Karl-Heinz Müller Roland Losert
Men's team épée Roland Losert, Karl-Heinz Müller, Herbert Polzhuber, Rudolf Trost
Men's sabre Hanns Brandstätter Fritz Prause Bernd Brodar
Men's team sabre Hanns Brandstätter, Bernd Brodar, Fritz Prause, Günther Ulrich
Women's foil Elke Radlingmaier Hannelore Hradez Waltraut Peck-Repa
Women's team foil Ingrid Gosch, Hannelore Hradez, Adrienne Krebitz, Elke Radlingmaier, Waltraut Peck-Repa
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Austria in 1972.
Men's Individual Competition: Wolfgang Leu — 4852 points (→ 18th place) Peter Zobl-Wessely — 4545 points (→ 35th place) Bruno Jerebicnik — 4415 points (→ 44th place)
Men's Team Competition: Leu, Zobl-Wessely, and Jerebicnik — 13865 points (→ 11th place)
Rowing
Men's Coxed Pairs Rainer Hinteregger, Manfred Grieshofer and Werner Grieshofer Heat — 8:08.88 Repechage — 8:15.94 (→ did not advance)
Sailing
Open AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank1234567Kurt SeidlErnst SeidlFlying Dutchman15526DNS18919127.018Hubert RaudaschlErich MoritzTempest5613153121484.410Manfred StelzlPeter LuschanStar815515771892.011Uli StrohschneiderPeter DenzelRobert HaschkaSoling2616 1513138colspan=1 95.017Harald FerebergerFranz EislKarl StanglDragon961351017colspan=1 71.710
Shooting
Seven male shooters represented Austria in 1972. Rudolf Dollinger won bronze in the 50 m pistol event. Open AthleteEventFinalScoreRankRudolf Dollinger50 m free pistol560Karl Fröschl 50 m rifle prone58767Hubert Garschall50 m free pistol5482125 m rapid fire pistol58132Guido Loacker 50 m rifle three positions112639Josef MeixnerTrap18620Gerhard Petritsch25 m rapid fire pistol5908Wolfram Waibel, Sr. 50 m rifle three positions11372550 m rifle prone59613
Swimming
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References