Austria has been at most of the Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Austria is AUT.
Austria at the Olympics
Alignments
So far, the Winter Olympics have been held twice in Austria. Both times the Winter Games were held in Innsbruck. Innsbruck also hosted the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012.
In Salzburg's bid for the 2010 Winter Games, the Austrian city was eliminated in the 1st round of voting on July 2, 2003. Four years later, on 4 July 2007, Salzburg again failed in the 1st round in its bid for the 2014 Winter Games.
Successful candidatures
- Innsbruck 1964 (Winter Games)
- Innsbruck 1976 (Winter Games; only at the 2nd election the games went to Innsbruck, because the actual organizer, Denver, had to give back the games).
- Innsbruck 2012 (Winter Youth Games)
Unsuccessful candidatures
- Innsbruck 1960 (Winter Games)
- Vienna 1964 (Summer Games)
- Graz 2002 (Winter Games)
- Klagenfurt 2006 (Winter Games)
- Salzburg 2010 (Winter Games)
- Salzburg 2014 (Winter Games)
Candidatures not forwarded by the ÖOC
In some years, several Austrian venues had shown interest in hosting Winter Games. According to the IOC statutes, a country can only propose one location as host. For the following bids, the bidding process therefore ended with the national preselection:
- Innsbruck 2002 (Winter Games)
- Kitzbühel 2006 (Winter Games)
- Kitzbühel 2010 (Winter Games)
- Innsbruck 2014 (Winter Games)
Medalist
Main article: Alphabetical list of all Austrian medalists
The most successful Austrian participants at Olympic Games are (table includes all athletes who won at least two medals, at least one of which was gold):
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Felix Gottwald (Nordic combined, 3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze) won the most medals with seven Olympic medals.
Four medals were won by Thomas Morgenstern (ski jumping, 3 gold, 1 silver), Hermann Maier (alpine skiing, 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze), Benjamin Raich (alpine skiing, 2 gold, 2 bronze), Mario Stecher (Nordic combined, 2 gold, 2 bronze), Stephan Eberharter (alpine skiing, 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze), Gregor Schlierenzauer (ski jumping, 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze), Bernhard Gruber (Nordic combined, 1 gold, 3 bronze), Martin Höllwarth (ski jumping, 3 silver, 1 bronze), Marlies Schild (Alpine skiing, 3 silver, 1 bronze), Dominik Landertinger (biathlon, 2 silver, 2 bronze) and Klaus Sulzenbacher (Nordic combined, 1 silver, 3 bronze).
A successful "title defence", i.e. the repetition of the Olympic victory, was achieved by Karl Schäfer in figure skating (1932 and 1936), Peter Seisenbacher in judo (middleweight, 1984 and 1988), Roman Hagara/Hans-Peter Steinacher in sailing (tornado, 2000 and 2004) as well as Andreas and Wolfgang Linger in luge (doubles), the ski jumping team (Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler were part of both successes) and the Nordic combined team (both times with Felix Gottwald and Mario Stecher) in 2006 and 2010 respectively.