# Austria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Austria is competing with 26 athletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.

## Medalists

The following Austrian competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Pepo Puch | Equestrian | Individual championship test grade Ib | September 14 |
| Silver | Markus Swoboda | Paracanoeing | Men's KL2 | September 15 |
| Silver | Walter Ablinger | Cycling | Men's road time trial H3 | September 15 |
| Silver | Thomas Frühwirth | Cycling | Men's road time trial H4 | September 15 |
| Silver | Pepo Puch | Equestrian | Individual freestyle test grade Ib | September 16 |
| Bronze | Krisztian Gardos | Table tennis | Men's individual Class 10 | September 12 |
| Bronze | Andreas Onea | Swimming | Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8 | September 14 |
| Bronze | Günther Matzinger | Athletics | Men's 400 metres T47 | September 17 |
| Bronze | Natalija Eder | Athletics | Women's javelin throw F13 | September 17 |

## Support

“Project Rio 2016” was created by the government to support Paralympic athletes seeking to qualify for the Rio Games. The former Austrian Minister of Sport Gerald Klug met with Paralympians Andreas Onea and Sabine Weber-Treiber as part of this program. The current Minister of Sports is Hans Peter Doskozil.

## Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.

## Athletics
### Track & road events

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Mario Bauer | Marathon T46 | — | 2:58:34 | 5 |
| Thomas Geierspichler | 100 metres T52 | 19.82 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Thomas Geierspichler | 400 metres T52 | 1:03.27 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Günther Matzinger | 400 metres T47 | 49.90 SB | 3 Q | 48.95 SB | |

### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Position |
| Bil Marinkovic | Discus throw F11 | 37.22 SB | 4 |

### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Position |
| Natalija Eder | Javelin throw F13 | 40.49 PB | |

## Paracanoe
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Markus Swoboda | KL2 | 44.525 | 1 FA | Bye | 43.726 | |

## Cycling

With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Austria qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.

### Road
#### Men

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Walter Ablinger | Road race H3 | 1:53:29 | 11 |
| Walter Ablinger | Road time trial H3 | 29:26.01 | |
| Wolfgang Eibeck | Road race C4–5 | 2:17:45 | 8 |
| Wolfgang Eibeck | Road time trial C5 | 38:15.05 | 6 |
| Thomas Frühwirth | Road race H4 | 1:28:59 | 7 |
| Thomas Frühwirth | Road time trial H4 | 27:49.31 | |
| Wolfgang Schattauer | Road race H2 | 1:31:39 | 7 |
| Wolfgang Schattauer | Road time trial H2 | 37:56.39 | 7 |
| Walter Ablinger Thomas Frühwirth Wolfgang Schattauer | Mixed team relay | 35:38 | 5 |

### Track
#### Pursuit

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Opponent Results | Rank |
| Wolfgang Eibeck | Men's individual pursuit C5 | 4:49.644 | 8 | did not advance | did not advance |

## Equestrian

The country qualified to participate in the team event at the Rio Games.
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Score | Rank |
| Thomas Haller | Puschkin 7 | Individual championship test grade II | WD | WD |
| Michael Knauder | Contessa 15 | Individual championship test grade Ia | 68.087 | 14 |
| Pepo Puch | Fontainenoir | Individual championship test grade Ib | 75.103 | |
| Pepo Puch | Fontainenoir | Individual freestyle test grade Ib | 76.750 | |
| Julia Sciancalepore | Pommery 4 | Individual championship test grade Ia | 66.304 | 19 |
| Thomas Haller Michael Knauder Pepo Puch Julia Sciancalepore | See above | Team | 418.160 | 8 |

## Rowing

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechage | Repechage | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Maria Dorn Thomas Ebner Gerheid Pahl Benjamin Strasser | Mixed coxed four | 3:47.13 | 6 R | 3:58.96 | 5 FB | 3:45.98 | 11 |

## Sailing

One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had nor already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships. Austria qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the 2.4m event with a ninth-place finish overall and the first country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. The boat was crewed by Sven Reiger.
| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Net points | Final rank |
| Sven Reiger | Norlin Mark 3 / 2.5 metre | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 86 | 11 |

## Swimming

Swimmers Andreas Onea and Sabine Weber-Treiber were Paralympic swimmers who benefited from the Austrian government's “Project Rio 2016”.

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Andreas Onea | 50m freestyle S8 | 29.49 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Andreas Onea | 100m breaststroke SB8 | — | 1:14.44 | |
| Andreas Onea | 100m butterfly S8 | 1:04.84 | 6 Q | 1:05.23 | 6 |
| Andreas Onea | 200m individual medley SM8 | 2:35.34 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Sabine Weber-Treiber | 50m freestyle S6 | 37.89 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Sabine Weber-Treiber | 100m freestyle S6 | 1:27.88 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Sabine Weber-Treiber | 100m breaststroke SB5 | 1:53.73 | 8 Q | DSQ | DSQ |

## Table tennis
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Round 1 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Egon Kramminger | Individual C3 | Feng Pf (CHN) L 0–3 | Glinbancheun (THA) L 0–3 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Stanislaw Fraczyk | Individual C9 | Perez (ESP) W 3–2 | Thompson (GBR) W 3–0 | 1 Q | — | Last (NED) L 1–3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Krisztian Gardos | Individual C10 | Ruiz (ESP) W 3–1 | Carbinatti (BRA) W 3–2 | 1 Q | — | Kodjabashev (BUL) W 3–2 | Chojnowski (POL) L 0–3 | Hao L (CHN) W 3–0 | |
| Stanislaw Fraczyk Krisztian Gardos | Team C9–10 | — | Netherlands L 1–2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Round 1 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Doris Mader | Individual C3 | Lee M-g (KOR) L 0–3 | Fontaine (USA) W 3–0 | 2 Q | Yoon Jy (KOR) L 0–3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Wheelchair tennis

Austria qualified two competitors in the men's single event, Nico Langmann and Martin Legner.

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Nico Langmann | Singles | Dong S (CHN) L 0–6, 3–6 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Martin Legner | Singles | Im H-w (KOR) L 1–6, 3–6 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Nico Langmann Martin Legner | Doubles | — | Bye | Kunieda / Saida (JPN) L 2–6, 0–6 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |