List of Austrians - Sports

Sports

  • Margarete "Grete" Adler, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-meter (m) freestyle relay)
  • Felix Baumgartner, world record setting skydiver
  • Gerhard Berger, racing driver
  • Richard Bergmann, 7-time world table tennis champion, ITTF Hall of Fame
  • Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy), saber fencer, Olympic silver
  • Fritzi Burger, figure skater, Olympic 2-time silver, World Championship 2-time silver
  • Michaela Dorfmeister, alpine skier
  • Erich Eliskases, chess grandmaster
  • Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch, sabre fencer, Olympic bronze
  • Toni Fritsch, soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972
  • Ernst Grünfeld, chess grandmaster
  • Hans Haas, Olympic champion weightlifter (lightweight), silver
  • Tunc Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion (2004)
  • Ernst Happel, football player and coach
  • Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch"), held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record in 1935
  • Dr. Otto Herschmann, Olympic 2-silver (in saber fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle)
  • Hansi Hinterseer, skier, singer, actor, entertainer
  • Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl, 2-time Olympic bronze wrestler (heavyweight freestyle and Greco-Roman), Shotput and Discus Junior Champion, Weightlifting Junior Champion, and Pentathlon Champion
  • Felix Kasper, figure skater, Olympic bronze
  • Franz Klammer, Olympic alpine ski champion
  • Werner Schlager, 2003 Table Tennis World Champion
  • Hans Krankl, football player and coach
  • Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
  • Hermann Maier, Olympic alpine ski champion
  • Alex Manninger, Professional footballer for Arsenal F.C. Winner of 1997-98 FA Premier League title.
  • Klara Milch, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)
  • Annemarie Moser-Pröll, alpine skier
  • Thomas Muster, tennis champion
  • Paul Neumann, Olympic champion swimmer (500 m freestyle)
  • Fred Oberlander, wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
  • Eva Pawlik, European figure skating Champion
  • Felix Pipes, Olympic silver tennis player (doubles)
  • Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer
  • Ellen Preis, foil fencer, 3-time world champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion
  • Herbert Prohaska, football player and coach
  • Jochen Rindt, race car driver, Formula One World Champion of 1970
  • Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games – won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing; born 1935
  • Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky"), Olympic champion swimmer (400 m freestyle) and 2-time bronze (400 m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle)
  • Wilhelm Steinitz, winner of first ever world chess championship in 1886
  • Carl Schlechter, chess grandmaster
  • Josephine Sticker, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)
  • Nicole Trimmel, kickboxing champion
  • Matthias Sindelar, regarded by many as Austria's greatest ever footballer.
  • Rudolf Spielmann, chess grandmaster
  • Herma Szabo, Olympic and five-time World figure skating champion
  • Thomas Vanek, NHL Hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres.
  • Anita Wachter, Olympic alpine ski champion, born 1967 in Schruns.
  • Otto Wahle, 2-time Olympic silver swimmer (1,000 m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) and bronze (400 m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame
  • Gregor Schlierenzauer, Olympic bronze medalist,world and 4 Hills Tournament champion ski jumper.

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