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Austria at the Olympics

Austria first competed at the Olympic Games in 1896.

Trivia

• Otto Herschmann, who won the silver in the team sabre fencing event in the 1912 Games, was at the time the president of the Austrian Olympic Committee. He is the only sitting national Olympic committee president to win a medal in the Olympics. Herschmann died in 1942 in a Nazi concentration camp.

• Arthur von Pongracz of Austria competed at age 72 in Dressage in 1936, becoming one of the oldest ever competitors at the Olympics.

Related Pages

• list of all countries that have participated at the Olympic Games.