Austria at the 2020 Summer Paralympics


Austria competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. The Austrian delegation consisted of seven athletes, six men and one woman. The delegation won nine medals, one gold, five silver, and three bronze, placing 48th.

Background

Originally scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were eventually played in Tokyo from 24 August through 5 September 2021.

Delegation

The Austrian delegation consisted of 25 athletes, 18 men and seven woman.
SportMenWomenTotal
Athletics213
Canoeing101
Cycling426
Equestrian224
Swimming213
Table Tennis101
Triathlon202
Wheelchair Tennis404
Total18725

Medalists

The Austrian delegation won nine medals, one gold, five silver, and three bronze, finishing in a joint 65th place in the medal table alongside the delegations of Kuwait, Namibia, and Slovenia.
MedalNameSportEventDate
CyclingMen's road time trial H431 August
EquestrianIndividual championship test grade II26 August
ParatriathlonMen's PTWC29 August
EquestrianIndividual freestyle test grade II30 August
CyclingMen's road time trial H431 August
CyclingMen's road race H41 September
CyclingMen's road time trial H431 August
CyclingMen's road race H41 September
CyclingMen's road race H41 September

Athletics

;Men's track
Thomas Geierspichler participated in the men's track events. He has represented Austria at every paralympics since the 2000 games at Sydney. Geierspichler did not win a medal.
;Men's field
;Women's field

Cycling

Walter Ablinger, Thomas Frühwirth, Ernst Bachmaier, Elisabeth Egger, Alexander Gritsch, Yvonne Marzinke all qualified to compete.

Road

;Men's road
;Women's road

Track

;Women's track

Equestrian

AthleteEventScoreRank
Bernd BruggerIndividual championship test grade IV66.90311
Pepo PuchIndividual championship test grade II73.441
Pepo PuchIndividual freestyle test grade II81.007
Julia SciancaleporeIndividual championship test grade I70.5717
Valentina StroblIndividual championship test grade V64.38113
Bernd Brugger
Pepo Puch
Julia Sciancelapore
Team213.5029

Paracanoeing

Austria sent a single athlete, Markus Swoboda, to compete in Paracanoeing.

Paratriathlon

Florian Brungraber and former sprinter Günther Matzinger qualified to compete.
AthleteEventSwimTrans 1BikeTrans 2RunTotal TimeRank
Florian BrungraberMen's PTWC13:351:2341:590:5412:0459:55
Günther MatzingerMen's PTS512:211:0821:050:4817:311:02:539

Swimming

Andreas Ernhofer, Janina Falk, Andreas Onea have qualified to compete.
;Men
;Women

Table tennis

Austria entered one athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Krisztian Gardos qualified via World Ranking allocation.
;Men

Wheelchair tennis

The Austrian delegation sent four male athletes, none of whom made it past the first round.