Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Austria competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Olympic Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] It was the nation's twenty-eighth appearance at the Summer Olympics.

Austria at the
2020 Summer Olympics
IOC codeAUT
NOCAustrian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympia.at (in German)
in Tokyo, Japan
23 July-8 August
Competitors75 (36 men and 39 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearers (opening)Tanja Frank
Thomas Zajac
Flag bearer (closing)Andreas Müller
Medals
Ranked 53rd
Gold
1
Silver
1
Bronze
5
Total
7
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Austria won seven medals, a significant improvement on their 2016 result, when the country won only a single bronze medal. In women's road race, Anna Kiesenhofer won Austria's first gold medal at the Summer Olympics since 2004.

Equestrian Victoria Max-Theurer withdrew from the Olympics because her horse had a dental problem.

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event Date
  Gold Anna Kiesenhofer Cycling Women's individual road race 25 July
  Silver Michaela Polleres Judo Women's 70 kg 28 July
  Bronze Shamil Borchashvili Judo Men's 81 kg 27 July
  Bronze Magdalena Lobnig Rowing Women's single sculls 30 July
  Bronze Lukas Weißhaidinger Athletics Men's discus throw 31 July
  Bronze Bettina Plank Karate Women's 55 kg 5 August
  Bronze Jakob Schubert Sport climbing Men's combined 5 August

Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors from the Austrian delegation participating in the Games:

Sport Men Women Total
Artistic swimming 2 2
Athletics 3 4 7
Badminton 1 0 1
Canoeing 1 5 6
Cycling 6 2 8
Equestrian 2 3 5
Golf 2 1 3
Gymnastics 0 1 1
Judo 2 4 6
Karate 0 1 1
Modern pentathlon 1 0 1
Rowing 0 3 3
Sailing 3 3 6
Shooting 1 1 2
Skateboarding 0 1 1
Sport climbing 1 1 2
Swimming 5 2 7
Table tennis 3 3 6
Tennis 2 0 2
Triathlon 2 2 4
Weightlifting 1 1 2
Total 36 39 75

Artistic swimming

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Austria fielded a squad of two artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet event, who qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2021 FINA Olympic Qualification Tournament in Barcelona, Spain.

Athlete Event Technical routine Free routine (preliminary) Free routine (final)
Points Rank Points Total (technical + free) Rank Points Total (technical + free) Rank
Anna-Maria Alexandri
Eirini Alexandri
Duet 90.3773 7 90.5000 180.8773 7 Q 91.8000 182.1773 7

Athletics

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Key
  • Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  • Q = Qualified for the next round
  • q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  • NR = National record
  • N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  • Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
Track & road events
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Peter Herzog Men's marathon 2:22:15 61
Lemawork Ketema DNF
Susanne Walli Women's 400 m 52.19 3 Q 51.52 PB 6 Did not advance
Field events
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Distance Position Distance Position
Lukas Weißhaidinger Men's discus throw 64.77 5 q 67.07  
Victoria Hudson Women's javelin throw 58.60 21 Did not advance
Combined events – Women's heptathlon
Athlete Event 100H HJ SP 200 m LJ JT 800 m Total Rank
Ivona Dadic Result 13.61 1.83 =PB 14.10 SB 24.33 SB 6.11 SB 48.40 SB 2:15.10 SB 6403 SB 8
Points 1034 1016 801 949 883 829 891
Verena Preiner Result 13.65 1.77 =SB 13.59 24.55 SB 6.12 44.95 2:07.92 6310 SB 11
Points 1028 941 767 929 887 763 995

Badminton

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Austria entered one badminton player into the Olympic tournament. Luka Wraber secured the men's singles spot at the Games based on the BWF Race to Tokyo Rankings.[2]

Athlete Event Group stage Elimination Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Luka Wraber Men's singles   Axelsen (DEN)
L (12–21, 11–21)
  Koljonen (FIN)
L (13–21, 17–21)
3 Did not advance

Canoeing

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Slalom

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Austrian canoeists qualified one boat for each of the following classes through the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain.[3]

Athlete Event Preliminary Semifinal Final
Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Best Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Felix Oschmautz Men's K-1 94.10 8 92.18 7 92.18 7 Q 98.42 9 Q 98.79 4
Nadine Weratschnig Women's C-1 112.47 4 115.56 10 112.47 6 119.69 7 119.41 5
Viktoria Wolffhardt Women's K-1 114.63 14 112.28 15 112.28 16 Q 112.11 11 Did not advance

Cycling

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Road

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Austria sent a delegation of four riders (three men and one woman) to compete in their respective Olympic road races, by virtue of their top 50 national finish (for men) and her top 100 individual finish (for women) in the UCI World Ranking.[4]

Athlete Event Time Rank
Patrick Konrad Men's road race 6:09:04 18
Men's time trial 1:02:05.08 31
Gregor Mühlberger Men's road race 6:21:46 70
Hermann Pernsteiner 6:13:17 30
Anna Kiesenhofer Women's road race 3:52:45  

Track

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Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Austrian riders accumulated spots in the men's omnium and madison based on their country's results in the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Omnium
Athlete Event Scratch Race Tempo Race Elimination Race Points Race Total points Rank
Rank Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank Points
Andreas Müller Men's omnium 19 4 19 2 20 2 18 0 8 18
Madison
Athlete Event Points Laps Rank
Andreas Graf
Andreas Müller
Men's madison DNF 20 =12

Mountain biking

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Austrian mountain bikers qualified for one men's and one women's quota place each into the Olympic cross-country race, as a result of the nation's ninth-place-finish for men and fifteenth for women, respectively, in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of 16 May 2021.

Athlete Event Time Rank
Maximilian Foidl Men's cross-country 1:28:45 17
Laura Stigger Women's cross-country DNF

Equestrian

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Austria entered one eventing rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by securing the last of six available slots, outside the group and continental selection, in the individual FEI Olympic rankings. Meanwhile, a composite squad of three dressage riders was formed and thereby added to the Austrian roster by receiving a spare berth freed up by one of two nations, unable to fulfill the NOC Certificate of Capability, based on their individual results in the FEI Olympic rankings at the end of 2019 season.[5] With Pakistan failing to comply with the minimum eligibility requirements, Austria received an invitation from FEI to send an additional eventing rider to the Games, as the next highest-ranked eligible nation outside of the group and continental selection.[6]

Dressage

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The Austrian dressage team was named on June 11, 2021. The team is led by four-time Olympian Victoria Max-Theurer, who is joined by Florian Bacher and Christian Schumach.[7]

Athlete Horse Event Grand Prix Grand Prix Special Grand Prix Freestyle Overall
Score Rank Score Rank Technical Artistic Score Rank
Florian Bacher Fidertraum Individual 69.813 30 Did not advance
Victoria Max-Theurer Abegglen Withdrew Did not advance
Christian Schumach Te Quiero 70.900 21 Did not advance
Florian Bacher
Victoria Max-Theurer
Christian Schumach
See above Team Eliminated Did not advance Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final; q = Qualified for the final as a lucky loser

Eventing

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Katrin Khoddam-Hazrati was forced to withdraw from the Games when her horse Cosma threw a shoe before competing in the dressage.[8]

Athlete Horse Event Dressage Cross-country Jumping Total
Qualifier Final
Penalties Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Penalties Rank
Katrin Khoddam-Hazrati Individual Cosma Withdrew
Lea Siegl Fighting Line 32.60 28 2.40 35.00 16 4.00 39.00 17 8.00 47.00 15

Golf

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Austria entered two male golfers and one female golfer into the Olympic tournament. Bernd Wiesberger qualified but chose not to play.[9]

Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total
Score Score Score Score Score Par Rank
Matthias Schwab Men's 69 69 70 67 275 −9 =27
Sepp Straka 63 71 68 68 270 −14 =10
Christine Wolf Women's 71 72 81 73 297 +13 56

Gymnastics

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Artistic

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Austria entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. Elisa Hämmerle booked a spot in the women's individual all-around and apparatus events, by finishing eleventh out of the twenty gymnasts eligible for qualification at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.[10]

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Apparatus Total Rank Apparatus Total Rank
V UB BB F V UB BB F
Elisa Hämmerle Women's All-around 12.533 12.600 11.800 12.000 48.933 66 Did not advance

Judo

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Austria entered six judoka (two men and four women) into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking.[11]

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Shamil Borchashvili Men's −81 kg Bye   Egutidze (POR)
W 01–00
  Muki (ISR)
W 01–00
  Boltaboev (UZB)
W 01–00
  Mollaei (MGL)
L 00–10
Bye   Ressel (GER)
W 10–00
 
Stephan Hegyi Men's +100 kg   Riner (FRA)
L 00–10
Did not advance
Sabrina Filzmoser Women's −57 kg   Verhagen (NED)
L 00–10
Did not advance
Magdalena Krssakova Women's −63 kg   Yang Jx (CHN)
W 10–00
  Beauchemin-Pinard (CAN)
L 00–10
Did not advance
Michaela Polleres Women's −70 kg   Fletcher (IRL)
W 01–00
  Kim S-y (KOR)
W 01–00
  Matić (CRO)
W 01–00
  van Dijke (NED)
W 01–00
Bye   Arai (JPN)
L 00–01
 
Bernadette Graf Women's −78 kg   Ma Zz (CHN)
W 10–00
  Malonga (FRA)
W 00–11
Did not advance

Karate

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Austria entered one karateka into the inaugural Olympic tournament. Bettina Plank competed in the women's kumite 55 kg, qualifying via World Karate Federation continental representation quotas.[12]

Athlete Event Group stage Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Bettina Plank Women's –55 kg   Miyahara (JPN)
L 2–6
  Zhangbyrbay (KAZ)
W 4–3
  Terliuga (UKR)
D 0–0
  Sayed (EGY)
W 3–1
2 Q   Goranova (BUL)
L 3–4
Did not advance  

Modern pentathlon

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Athlete Event Fencing
(épée one touch)
Swimming
(200 m freestyle)
Riding
(show jumping)
Combined: shooting/running
(10 m air pistol)/(3200 m)
Total points Final rank
RR BR Rank Points Time Rank Points Time Rank Points Time Rank Points
Gustav Gustenau Men's 18–17 2 14 210 1:56.93 4 317 0 1 300 11:47.97 29 593 1420 16

Rowing

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Austria qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Games by finishing third in the B-final and securing the last of nine berths available at the 2019 FISA World Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.[13] Meanwhile, the women's lightweight double sculls crew added one boat for the Austrian roster with a third-place finish at the 2021 European Continental Qualification Regatta in Varese, Italy.[14]

Athlete Event Heats Repechage Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Magdalena Lobnig Women's single sculls 7:37.91 1 QF Bye 7:58.20 1 SA/B 7:25.59 3 FA 7:19.72  
Louisa Altenhuber
Valentina Cavallar
Women's lightweight double sculls 7:26.22 5 R 7:42.31 4 FC Bye 7:15.25 14

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

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Austrian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.[15]

On March 6, 2020, the Austrian Olympic Committee announced the first set of sailors to compete at the Enoshima regatta, namely Rio 2016 bronze medalist Tanja Frank and her new partner Lorena Abicht in the women's 49erFX class.[16]

Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 M*
Benjamin Bildstein
David Hussl
Men's 49er 10 17 6 4 9 9 10 5 16 7 15 13 EL 104 10
Lorena Abicht
Tanja Frank
Women's 49erFX 11 13 9 11 12 DNF 19 7 9 17 16 20 EL 144 17
Thomas Zajac
Barbara Matz
Mixed Nacra 17 3 10 8 14 13 5 12 13 9 4 12 11 EL 100 11

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

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Austrian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 May 2020.[17]

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Martin Strempfl Men's 10 m air rifle 627.0 13 Did not advance
Sylvia Steiner Women's 10 m air pistol 573 15 Did not advance
Women's 25 m pistol 577 29 Did not advance

Skateboarding

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Austria entered one skateboarder into the Olympic tournament

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Julia Brückler Women's street 5.10 18 Did not advance

Sport climbing

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Austria entered two sport climbers into the Olympic tournament. Jakob Schubert and Jessica Pilz qualified directly each for the men's and women's combined event, by advancing to the final stage and securing one of the seven provisional berths at the 2019 IFSC World Championships in Hachioji, Japan.[18][19]

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Speed Boulder Lead Total Rank Speed Boulder Lead Total Rank
Best Place Result Place Hold Time Place Best Place Result Place Hold Time Place
Jakob Schubert Men's 6.70 12 1T3z 2 13 7 412+ 4:02 1 84.00 4 Q 6.76 7 1T3z 1 7 5 Top 1 35  
Jessica Pilz Women's 8.51 11 1T3z 3 5 9 33+ 2 198.00 6 Q 8.43 6 0T2z 0 10 5 34+ 3 90 7

Swimming

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Austrian swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[20][21]

Men
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Felix Auböck 400 m freestyle 3:43.91 2 Q 3:44.07 4
800 m freestyle 7:45.73 NR 4 Q 7:49.14 7
1500 m freestyle 14:51.88 7 Q 15:03.47 7
Simon Bucher 100 m butterfly 52.52 =37 Did not advance
Heiko Gigler 50 m freestyle 22.17 22 Did not advance
Bernhard Reitshammer 100 m backstroke 55.26 35 Did not advance
100 m breaststroke 1:00.41 30 Did not advance
200 m individual medley 1:59.56 32 Did not advance
Christopher Rothbauer 200 m breaststroke 2:13.19 28 Did not advance
Women
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Lena Grabowski 100 m backstroke 1:01.80 29 Did not advance
200 m backstroke 2:09.77 10 Q 2:10.10 12 Did not advance
Marlene Kahler 400 m freestyle 4:08.37 17 Did not advance
800 m freestyle 8:36.16 22 Did not advance
1500 m freestyle 16:20.05 19 Did not advance

Table tennis

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Austria entered five athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. The women's team secured a berth by advancing to the quarterfinal round of the 2020 World Olympic Qualification Event in Gondomar, Portugal, permitting a maximum of two starters to compete in the women's singles tournament.[22] Moreover, an additional place was awarded to the Austrian table tennis players competing in the inaugural mixed doubles by virtue of a top six national finish vying for qualification in the ITTF Olympic Rankings.

Two-time Olympian Robert Gardos and Daniel Habesohn were automatically selected among the top seven eligible players in the men's singles based on the ITTF Olympic Rankings of June 1, 2021.[23]

Athlete Event Preliminary Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Robert Gardos Men's singles Bye   Drinkhall (GBR)
L 1–4
Did not advance
Daniel Habesohn Bye   Chew (SGP)
W 4–1
  Freitas (POR)
L 3–4
Did not advance
Liu Jia Women's singles   Zaza (SYR)
W 4–0
  Gaponova (UKR)
W 4–2
  Mikhaylova (ROC)
W 4–3
  Díaz (PUR)
W 4–0
  Jeon J-h (KOR)
L 1–4
Did not advance
Sofia Polcanova Bye   Batra (IND)
W 4–0
  Ishikawa (JPN)
L 0–4
Did not advance
Liu Jia
Liu Yuan
Sofia Polcanova
Women's team   China (CHN)
L 0–3
Did not advance
Stefan Fegerl
Sofia Polcanova
Mixed doubles   Mizutani /
Ito (JPN)
L 1–4
Did not advance

Tennis

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Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Oliver Marach
Philipp Oswald
Men's doubles   Millman /
Saville (AUS)
W 7–5, 6–2
  Cabal /
Farah (COL)
L 4–6, 1–6
Did not advance

Triathlon

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Individual
Athlete Event Time Rank
Swim (1.5 km) Trans 1 Bike (40 km) Trans 2 Run (10 km) Total
Alois Knabl Men's 17:55 0:45 Did not finish
Lukas Hollaus 18:38 0:40 57:38 0:29 31:34 1:48:59 34
Julia Hauser Women's Did not finish
Lisa Perterer 20:03 0:42 1:06:14 0:35 35:26 2:03:00 27

Weightlifting

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Austrian weightlifters qualified for two quota places at the games, based on the Tokyo 2020 Rankings Qualification List of 11 June 2021.[24][25]

Athlete Event Snatch Clean & jerk Total Rank
Result Rank Result Rank
Sargis Martirosjan Men's +109 kg 180 6 201 12 381 10
Sarah Fischer Women's +87 kg 97 9 123 11 220 10

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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  5. ^ "Tokyo 2020 team and individual quota places confirmed by FEI". FEI. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
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  11. ^ International Judo Federation Olympics Ranking
  12. ^ "Olympian from 34 countries now confirmed for Karate Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020". World Karate Federation. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  13. ^ "Look who's going to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games". International Rowing Federation. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  14. ^ "European rowing gain Olympic and Paralympic qualification places". International Rowing Federation. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  15. ^ "First Laser, Radial and 49erFX nations confirmed for Tokyo 2020". World Sailing. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  16. ^ "Frank/Abicht für Olympia nominiert" [Frank and Abicht nominated for the Olympics] (in German). Austrian Olympic Committee. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  17. ^ "Quota Places by Nation and Number". www.issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  18. ^ "Where do we stand on Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification in sport climbing?". Olympic Channel. 19 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  19. ^ "Schubert und Pilz klettern bei WM um Olympia-Ticket" [Schubert and Pilz climbed for the Olympic ticket at the World Championships] (in German). Die Presse. 18 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
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  24. ^ Tokyo 2020 Qualification (Weightlifting)
  25. ^ "Final-List-of-Qualified-Athletes" (PDF). www.iwf.net. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 July 2021.