Three sportsmen from Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics

1896 Summer Olympics

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era...

. Though Austria was then a part of Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

, most sources separate Austrian competitors from the Hungarians at the 1896 Games

Hungary at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Hungary competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Austrian and Hungarian results at early Olympic Games are generally kept separate despite the union of the two nations as Austria-Hungary at the time....

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Medalists

Austria finished in seventh position in the final medal rankings, with two gold medals and five medals overall.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
		Cycling Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics At the 1896 Summer Olympics, six cycling events were contested at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Cycling. Events were held on 8 April, 11 April, 12 April and 13 April 1896...	12 hour race
		Swimming Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested, all for men. They were planned and organized by the Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports. All events took place on 11 April in the Bay of Zea...	500 m freestyle
		Swimming Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested, all for men. They were planned and organized by the Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports. All events took place on 11 April in the Bay of Zea...	100 m Freestyle
		Cycling Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics At the 1896 Summer Olympics, six cycling events were contested at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Cycling. Events were held on 8 April, 11 April, 12 April and 13 April 1896...	Time trial
		Cycling Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics At the 1896 Summer Olympics, six cycling events were contested at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Cycling. Events were held on 8 April, 11 April, 12 April and 13 April 1896...	10 km

Cycling

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

Stamatios Nikolopoulos

Stamatios Nikolopoulos was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Nikolopoulos competed in the 333 metres and the 2 kilometres races, placing second in each to Frenchman Paul Masson. Nikolopoulos's time in the 2 kilometres was 5:00.2...

. A race-off between the two broke the tie in favor of the greek athlete.

Track

Athlete	Event	Time / Distance	Rank
Adolf Schmal Adolf Schmal Felix Adolf Schmal was an Austrian fencer and racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens....	Time trial	26.0
	10 km	Unknown
	100 km	DNF	-
	12 hour race	314.997 km

Fencing

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

Athlete	Event	Record		Touches		Final Rank
		Wins	Losses	For	Against
Adolf Schmal Adolf Schmal Felix Adolf Schmal was an Austrian fencer and racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens....	Sabre	1	3	7	11	4

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Denmark Denmark at the 1896 Summer Olympics Three athletes from Denmark competed in five sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Two of the three combined to win a gold medal, two silvers, and three bronzes, while Eugen Schmidt earned no medals. Viggo Jensen contributed one of each color, while Holger Nielsen earned the second silver...	0	1	.000
Greece Greece at the 1896 Summer Olympics Greece was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169, but as many as 176 Greeks contested events in all nine sports. The Greeks were by far the most successful nation in terms of total medals with 46, 26 more than the...	1	2	.333
Total	1	3	.250

Swimming

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

Athlete	Events	Final
		Time	Rank
Otto Herschmann Otto Herschmann Dr. Otto Herschmann was a Jewish Austrian swimmer, fencer, lawyer, and sport official. He is one of only three athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports.-Olympic swimming career:...	100 m freestyle	1:22.8
Paul Neumann Paul Neumann (swimmer) Paul Neumann was an Austrian swimmer and physician, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and became the first Austrian gold medalist ever.-Biography:...	500 m freestyle	8:12.6
	1200 m freestyle	DNF	-