Austria at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Austria at the Olympic Games
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At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz
Competitors	54 (42 men, 12 women) in 8 sports
Medals Rank: 7	Gold 1	Silver 3	Bronze 4	Total 8
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Austria competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Trude Jochum-Beiser	Alpine skiing	Women's combined
Silver	Franz Gabl	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill
Silver	Trude Jochum-Beiser	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Silver	Eva Pawlik	Figure skating	Women's singles
Bronze	Resi Hammerer	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Bronze	Erika Mahringer	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
Bronze	Erika Mahringer	Alpine skiing	Women's combined
Bronze	Edi Rada	Figure skating	Men's singles

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Edi Mall	Downhill					3:09.3	19
Eberhard Kneisl						3:08.3	15
Engelbert Haider						3:08.2	14
Hans Nogler						3:03.2	9
Egon Schöpf						3:01.2	5
Franz Gabl						2:59.1
Christian Pravda	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Anton Hinterholzen		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Engelbert Haider		1:13.3	17	1:09.5	22	2:22.8	17
Edi Mall		1:12.2	15	1:06.1	12	2:18.3	11
Egon Schöpf		1:11.1	11	1:03.1	2	2:14.2	6

Men's combined

The downhill part of this event was held along with the main medal event of downhill skiing. For athletes competing in both events, the same time was used (see table above for the results). The slalom part of the event was held separate from the main medal event of slalom skiing (included in table below).

Athlete	Slalom			Total (downhill + slalom)
	Time 1	Time 2	Rank	Points	Rank
Eberhard Kneisl	1:18.1	1:07.8	12	12.36	11
Engelbert Haider	1:16.4	1:11.8	16	13.26	13
Hans Nogler	1:12.2	1:14.8	14	9.96	8
Edi Mall	1:09.5	1:06.5	2	8.54	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sophie Nogler	Downhill					2:47.0	26
Erika Mahringer						2:39.3	19
Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf						2:39.0	17
Annelore Zückert						2:38.4	16
Resi Hammerer						2:30.2
Trude Jochum-Beiser						2:29.1
Annelore Zückert	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf		1:06.9	15	59.8	7	2:06.7	6
Resi Hammerer		1:04.4	9	1:04.2	13	2:08.6	7
Erika Mahringer		59.8	2	58.2	5	1:58.0

Women's combined

The downhill part of this event was held along with the main medal event of downhill skiing. For athletes competing in both events, the same time was used (see table above for the results). The slalom part of the event was held separate from the main medal event of slalom skiing (included in table below).

Athlete	Slalom			Total (downhill + slalom)
	Time 1	Time 2	Rank	Points	Rank
Resi Hammerer	1:08.9	1:10.9	18	11.87	12
Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf	1:02.1	1:02.2	3	9.76	7
Trude Jochum-Beiser	1:01.8	1:08.7	8	6.58
Erika Mahringer	58.4	59.7	1	7.04

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
18 km	Hubert Hammerschmied	1'32:47	68
	Karl Martitsch	1'31:19	64
	Paul Haslwanter	1'31:00	61
	Josef Deutschmann	1'27:43	46
	Matthias Noichl	1'27:34	45
	Engelbert Hundertpfund	1'25:41	39
	Josl Gstrein	1'25:04	36
	Karl Rafreider	1:23.19	28
50 km	Josl Gstrein	4'21:13	12

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Josl Gstrein Josef Deutschmann Engelbert Hundertpfund Karl Rafreider	2'47:18	4

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Final rank
Helmut Seibt	8	12	162.655	79	9
Hellmut May	7	7	165.666	68	8
Edi Rada	3	4	178.133	33

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Final rank
Ingeborg Solar	23	9	135.444	186	20
Hildegard Appeltauer	18	20	139.300	155	18
Martha Musilek Bachem	14	7	144.456	103	9
Eva Pawlik	3	2	157.588	24

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Places	Final rank
Susanne Giebisch Helmut Seibt	9.290	117.5	11
Herta Ratzenhofer Emil Ratzenhofer	9.436	111.5	9

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics

The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	8	7	0	1	69	5	15
Czechoslovakia	8	7	0	1	80	18	15
Switzerland	8	6	2	0	67	21	12
Sweden	8	4	4	0	55	28	8
Great Britain	8	3	5	0	39	47	6
Poland	8	2	6	0	29	97	4
Austria 7th	8	1	7	0	33	77	2
Italy	8	0	8	0	24	156	0
United States *	8	5	3	0	86	33	10

* United States team was disqualified. Only eight teams are officially ranked.

• Poland 7-5 Austria
• United Kingdom 5-4 Austria
• Switzerland 11-2 Austria
• Sweden 7-1 Austria
• Czechoslovakia 17-3 Austria
• Austria 16-5 Italy
• USA 13-2 Austria
• Canada 12-0 Austria

Contestants Franz Csöngei Fritz Demmer Egon Engel Walter Feistritzer Gustav Gross Fredl Huber Julius Juhn Oskar Nowak Hansjörg Reichel Hans Schneider Willibald Stanek Herbert Ulrich Fritz Walter Helfried Winger Rudolf Wurmbrandt

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Events:

• 18 km cross-country skiing
• normal hill ski jumping

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below. Athletes would perform three jumps, of which the two best jumps (distance and form) were counted.

Athlete	Event	Cross-country		Ski Jumping					Total
		Points	Rank	Distance 1	Distance 2	Distance 3	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Hubert Hammerschmied	Individual	154.50	30	58.5	62.0	62.5	202.4	14	356.90	23
Karl Martitsch		162.00	27	59.0	60.0	61.0	198.2	17	360.20	21
Paul Haslwanter		163.50	25	DNF	–	–	–	–	DNF	–
Josl Gstrein		193.50	17	63.5	61.0	59.5	188.2	25	381.70	16

Skeleton

Main article: Skeleton at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Run 5		Run 6		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hugo Kuranda	DNF	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	DNF	–

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Total points	Rank
Helmut Hadwiger	Normal hill	51.0	56.5	181.4	35
Toni Wieser		59.0	61.5	192.1	28
Gregor Höll		60.0	62.5	195.8	24
Hubert Hammerschmied		61.0	63.0	199.8	19

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Ferdinand Preindl	48.7	41
	Gustav Slanec	47.4	37
1500 m	Ferdinand Preindl	2:38.6	44
	Gustav Slanec	2:31.9	40
	Max Stiepl	2:31.2	38
5000 m	Max Stiepl	9:05.0	24
10,000 m	Max Stiepl	19:25.5	10

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1948, full results by sports-reference.com