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Austria at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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{{infobox country at games

| NOC = AUT

| NOCname = Austrian Olympic Committee

| games = Summer Olympics

| year = 1896

| flagcaption =

| oldcode =

| website = {{URL|www.olympia.at }} {{in lang|de}}

| location = Athens, Greece

| date = 6 April 1896 – 15 April 1896

| competitors = 3

| sports = 3

| events = 9

| flagbearer =

| rank = 7

| gold = 2

| silver = 1

| bronze = 2

| officials =

| appearances = auto

| app_begin_year =

| app_end_year =

| summerappearances =

| winterappearances =

| seealso = 1906 Intercalated Games

}}

Three sportsmen from Austria competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Though Austria was then a part of Austria-Hungary, most sources separate Austrian competitors from the Hungarians at the 1896 Games.

Medalists

{{further|1896 Summer Olympics medal table|List of 1896 Summer Olympics medal winners}}

The following competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.

class="wikitable sortable" style=font-size:95%
Medal

!Name

!Sport

!Event

!Date

{{gold medal}}

|{{sortname|Adolf|Schmal}}

|Cycling

|Men's 12 hour race

|{{dts|April 13}}

{{gold medal}}

|{{sortname|Paul|Neumann|Paul Neumann (swimmer)}}

|Swimming

|500 m freestyle

|{{dts|April 11}}

{{silver medal}}

|{{sortname|Otto|Herschmann}}

|Swimming

|100 m Freestyle

|{{dts|April 11}}

{{bronze medal}}

|{{sortname|Adolf|Schmal}}

|Cycling

|10 km

|{{dts|April 11}}

{{bronze medal}}

|{{sortname|Adolf|Schmal}}

|Cycling

|Time trial

|{{dts|April 11}}

{{Clear}}

class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; float:right;"
style="background:#efefef;"

!colspan=5|Medals by sport

Sport

|bgcolor=F7F6A8|{{gold01}}

|bgcolor=DCE5E5|{{silver02}}

|bgcolor=FFDAB9|{{bronze03}}

!Total

Swimming

|bgcolor=F7F6A8|1

|bgcolor=DCE5E5|1

|bgcolor=FFDAB9|0

|2

Cycling

|bgcolor=F7F6A8|1

|bgcolor=DCE5E5|0

|bgcolor=FFDAB9|2

|3

Total

!style=background:gold|2

!style=background:silver|1

!style=background:#c96|2

!5

class=wikitable style=font-size:85%;float:right;text-align:center
style="background:#efefef;"

!colspan=6|Medals by day

Day

!Date

| bgcolor=F7F6A8| {{gold01}}

| bgcolor=DCE5E5| {{silver02}}

| bgcolor=FFDAB9| {{bronze03}}

!Total

1

|6 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |0

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |0

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0

|0

style="text-align:center"

|2

|7 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |0

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |0

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0

|0

style="text-align:center"

|3

|8 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |0

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |0

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0

|0

style="text-align:center"

|4

|9 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |0

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |0

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0

|0

style="text-align:center"

|5

|10 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |0

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |0

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0

|0

style="text-align:center"

|6

|11 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |1

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |1

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |2

| 4

style="text-align:center"

|7

|12 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |0

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |0

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0

|0

style="text-align:center"

|8

|13 April

| bgcolor=F7F6A8 |1

| bgcolor=DCE5E5 |0

| bgcolor=FFDAB9 |0

|1

colspan=2|Total

! style="background:gold" |2

! style="background:silver" |1

! style="background:#c96" |2

!5

=Multiple medalists=

The following competitors won multiple medals at the 1896 Olympic Games.

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%"
Name

! Medal

! Sport

! Event

{{sortname|Adolf|Schmal}}{{gold medal}}
{{bronze medal}}
{{bronze medal}}		CyclingMen's 12 hour race
Men's track time trial
Men's 10 kilometres

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

class="wikitable sortable" style=text-align:center
width=180|Sport

! width=55|Men

! width=55|Women

! width=55|Total

align=left|Cycling

| 1

01
align=left|Fencing

| 1

01
align=left|Swimming

| 2

02
Total || 3Adolf Schmal competed in cycling and fencing. || 0 || 3

Cycling

{{main|Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics}}

All three of Schmal's medals were won in the cycling competitions, even though he competed in two different sports. He competed in four events, earning a top three finish in three of them. In the time trial event, Schmal tied for second place Stamatios Nikolopoulos. A race-off between the two broke the tie in favor of the Greek athlete.

= Track =

class=wikitable style=font-size:90%;text-align:center
Athlete

!Event

!Time / Distance

!Rank

align=left|Adolf Schmal

|align=left|Time trial

|26.6

|{{bronze03}}

align=left|Adolf Schmal

|align=left|10 km

|Unknown

|{{bronze03}}

align=left|Adolf Schmal

|align=left|100 km

|colspan=2|{{Abbr|DNF|Did not finish}}

align=left|Adolf Schmal

|align=left|12 hour race

|295.300 km

|{{gold01}}

Fencing

{{main|Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics}}

Schmal also competed in the sabre fencing tournament, placing fourth in the five-man round robin.

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rowspan=2|Athlete

!rowspan=2|Event

!colspan=3|Final

style="font-size:95%"

!{{abbr|MW|Matches won}}

!{{abbr|ML|Matches lost}}

!Rank

align=center

|align=left|Adolf Schmal

|align=left|Men's sabre

|1

|3

|4

Swimming

{{main|Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics}}

Two Austrian swimmers competed in 1896. One of the two competed in each of the three open events, and each swimmer won one medal.

class=wikitable style=font-size:90%;text-align:center
rowspan=2|Athlete

!rowspan=2|Event

!colspan=2|Final

style=font-size:95%

!Time

!Rank

align=left|Otto Herschmann

|align=left|100 m freestyle

|1:22.8

|{{silver02}}

align=left|Paul Neumann

|align=left rowspan=2|500 m freestyle

|8:12.6

|{{gold01}}

align=left|Otto Herschmann

|colspan=2| {{Abbr|DNS|Did not start}}

align=left|Paul Neumann

|align=left|1200 m freestyle

|colspan=2| {{Abbr|DNF|Did not finish}}

References

{{Reflist}}

{{commons category}}

  • {{cite book |author1=Lampros, S.P. |author2=Polites, N.G. |author3=De Coubertin, Pierre |author4=Philemon, P.J. |author5=Anninos, C. |name-list-style=amp | title=The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896 | location=Athens | publisher=Charles Beck | year=1897 }} (Digitally available at [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1896/1896.pdf])
  • {{cite book | author1=Mallon, Bill | author2=Widlund, Ture | name-list-style=amp | title=The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary | location=Jefferson | publisher=McFarland | year=1998 | isbn=0-7864-0379-9 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall }} (Excerpt available at [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/Mallon/1896.pdf])
  • {{cite book | author=Smith, Michael Llewellyn | title= Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games | location=London | publisher=Profile Books | year = 2004 | isbn=1-86197-342-X}}

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