# Austria at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Austria competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Toni Sailer | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
| Gold | Toni Sailer | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
| Gold | Toni Sailer | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
| Gold | Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Silver | Anderl Molterer | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slaom |
| Silver | Putzi Frandl | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
| Silver | Regina Schöpf | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
| Bronze | Anderl Molterer | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
| Bronze | Walter Schuster | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
| Bronze | Thea Hochleitner | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
| Bronze | Ingrid Wendl | Figure skating | Women's singles |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Walter Schuster | Downhill | | | | | DSQ | – |
| Josl Rieder | Downhill | | | | | DSQ | – |
| Anderl Molterer | Downhill | | | | | 2:56.2 | |
| Toni Sailer | Downhill | | | | | 2:52.2 | |
| Ernst Hinterseer | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:08.5 | 6 |
| Walter Schuster | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:07.2 | |
| Anderl Molterer | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:06.3 | |
| Toni Sailer | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:00.1 | |
| Anderl Molterer | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Josl Rieder | Slalom | 1:47.0 | 31 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Othmar Schneider | Slalom | 1:35.8 | 23 | 2:00.0 | 13 | 3:35.8 | 12 |
| Toni Sailer | Slalom | 1:27.3 | 1 | 1:47.4 | 1 | 3:14.7 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Putzi Frandl | Downhill | | | | | 1:51.0 | 13 |
| Trude Klecker | Downhill | | | | | 1:50.6 | 12 |
| Thea Hochleitner | Downhill | | | | | 1:47.9 | 7 |
| Hilde Hofherr | Downhill | | | | | 1:47.3 | 4 |
| Trude Klecker | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:08.5 | 33 |
| Regina Schöpf | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:00.6 | 9 |
| Thea Hochleitner | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:58.2 | |
| Putzi Frandl | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:57.8 | |
| Putzi Frandl | Slalom | 1:00.4 | 14 | 57.5 | 2 | 1:58.0 | 5 |
| Thea Hochleitner | Slalom | 1:00.4 | 14 | 1:00.6 | 13 | 2:01.0 | 12 |
| Hilde Hofherr | Slalom | 58.2 | 6 | 1:25.3 | 31 | 2:23.5 | 24 |
| Regina Schöpf | Slalom | 56.0 | 2 | 59.4 | 7 | 1:55.4 | |

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| AUT-1 | Paul Aste Heinrich Isser | Two-man | 1:26.32 | 12 | 1:25.82 | 12 | 1:26.61 | 15 | 1:25.22 | 7 | 5:43.97 | 12 |
| AUT-2 | Karl Wagner Adolf Tonn | Two-man | 1:26.15 | 11 | 1:27.06 | 20 | 1:26.73 | 16 | 1:26.35 | 14 | 5:46.29 | 15 |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| AUT-1 | Karl Wagner Fritz Rursch Adolf Tonn Heinrich Isser | Four-man | 1:19.60 | 11 | 1:20.74 | 17 | 1:19.98 | 8 | 1:20.30 | 8 | 5:20.62 | 10 |
| AUT-2 | Kurt Loserth Wilfried Thurner Karl Schwarzböck Franz Dominik | Four-man | 1:19.37 | 10 | 1:19.12 | 9 | 1:20.08 | 9 | 1:19.72 | 5 | 5:18.29 | 7 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Oskar Schulz | 59:56 | 59 |
| 15 km | Hermann Mayr | 55:51 | 39 |
| 15 km | Karl Rafreider | 54:51 | 35 |
| 15 km | Sepp Schneeberger | 54:21 | 28 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Sepp Schneeberger Oskar Schulz Hermann Mayr Karl Rafreider | 2'30:50 | 11 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Norbert Felsinger | 7 | 8 | 150.55 | 67 | 7 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Hanna Walter | 8 | 7 | 153.89 | 83.5 | 7 |
| Hanna Eigel | 5 | 4 | 157.15 | 52 | 5 |
| Ingrid Wendl | 3 | 5 | 159.44 | 39 | |

### Pairs

| Athletes | Points | Places | Rank |
| Elisabeth Ellend Konrad Lienert | 10.38 | 77 | 9 |
| Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt | 11.31 | 14 | |

## Ice hockey
### Group A

Top two teams advanced to Medal Round.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| 3 | Italy | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| 4 | Austria | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 1 |
* Italy 2-2 Austria
* Canada 23-0 Austria
* Germany (UTG) 7-0 Austria

### Games for 7th-10th places

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 7 | Italy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 6 |
| 8 | Poland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 4 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 18 | 2 |
| 10 | Austria | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 0 |
* Switzerland 7-4 Austria
* Italy 8-2 Austria
* Poland 4-3 Austria
* Contestants Alfred Püls Robert Nusser Franz Potucek Hermann Knoll Hans Mössmer Hans Scarsini Hans Zollner Fritz Spielmann Wilhelm Schmid Walter Znenahlik Gerhard Springer Adolf Hafner Hans Wagner Max Singewald Kurt Kurz Konrad Staudinger Wolfgang Jöchl

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Leopold Kohl | Individual | 66.5 | 69.5 | 198.5 | 16 | 1'01:00 | 221.800 | 21 | 420.300 | 17 |
| Sepp Schiffner | Individual | 71.5 | 73.5 | 211.5 | 4 | 1'02:02 | 217.800 | 25 | 429.300 | 11 |
| Willi Egger | Individual | 73.0 | 72.5 | 208.0 | 7 | 1'03:00 | 214.100 | 28 | 422.100 | 16 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Rank | Distance | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Otto Leodolter | Normal hill | 72.0 | 94.0 | 31 | 72.5 | 91.0 | 33 | 185.0 | 30 |
| Rudolf Schweinberger | Normal hill | 74.5 | 100.0 | 22 | 75.0 | 99.0 | 17 | 199.0 | 19 |
| Walter Habersatter | Normal hill | 77.5 | 102.0 | 18 | 77.5 | 99.5 | 16 | 201.5 | 15 |
| Sepp Bradl | Normal hill | 77.5 | 104.5 | 11 | 77.0 | 101.0 | 15 | 205.5 | 12 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Kurt Eminger | 44.4 | 41 |
| 500 m | Ernst Biel | 44.2 | 37 |
| 500 m | Franz Offenberger | 43.8 | 32 |
| 1500 m | Ernst Biel | 2:23.5 | 51 |
| 1500 m | Kurt Eminger | 2:19.0 | 38 |
| 1500 m | Arthur Mannsbarth | 2:17.4 | 32 |
| 1500 m | Franz Offenberger | 2:17.3 | 31 |
| 5000 m | Kurt Eminger | 8:39.4 | 38 |
| 5000 m | Franz Offenberger | 8:30.8 | 34 |
| 5000 m | Arthur Mannsbarth | 8:23.6 | 28 |
| 10,000 m | Arthur Mannsbarth | 17:47.8 | 29 |