Sailing
Four men and one woman participated in the sailing competition for Austria. They won two gold medals.
Men's Mistral
- Christoph Sieber
- Race 1 — 1
- Race 2 — 2
- Race 3 — 1
- Race 4 — (24)
- Race 5 — 1
- Race 6 — 10
- Race 7 — 7
- Race 8 — (23)
- Race 9 — 4
- Race 10 — 5
- Race 11 — 7
- Final — 38 (Gold medal)
Men's Laser
- Andreas Geritzer
- Race 1 — 2
- Race 2 — 11
- Race 3 — (38)
- Race 4 — 9
- Race 5 — 11
- Race 6 — 7
- Race 7 — 15
- Race 8 — 15
- Race 9 — (44) DNF
- Race 10 — 5
- Race 11 — 3
- Final — 78 (5th place)
Men's Tornado
- Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher
- Race 1 — 3
- Race 2 — 1
- Race 3 — 2
- Race 4 — 1
- Race 5 — 1
- Race 6 — 4
- Race 7 — 1
- Race 8 — 1
- Race 9 — 2
- Race 10 — (17) — DNC
- Race 11 — (17) — DNC
- Final — 16 (Gold medal)
Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)
- Denise Cesky
- Race 1 — 22
- Race 2 — 22
- Race 3 — 6
- Race 4 — 9
- Race 5 — 15
- Race 6 — 9
- Race 7 — 14
- Race 8 — 16
- Race 9 — (26)
- Race 10 — (24)
- Race 11 — 21
- Final — 134 (20th place)
Read more about this topic: Austria At The 2000 Summer Olympics
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“There’s precious little to say between day and dark,
Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
Of time sailing like a magic barque
Or something as fine for the amenities....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“O western orb sailing the heaven,
Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)