Austria to send 74 athletes to Athens Olympics
VIENNA (Austria): Table tennis world champion Werner Schlager will lead Austria’s 74-person team that will compete at the Athens Olympics, the Austrian Olympic Team announced Tuesday.
Schlager is one of 54 men, who will be joined by 20 women, that will go the to games Aug. 13-29. The team is the 12th largest Austria has sent to an Olympiad, less than half the biggest team it has ever sent, 183 to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and considerably smaller than the 122-member team that competed at the 1972 Games in Munich. Austria has competed in all but one of the previous 27 Summer Games.
Besides Schlager, other prominent members of the team include are medal hopefuls Nik Berger and Clemens Doppler (beach volleyball), Christoph Marik (fencing), Ludwig Paischer (judo), Karin Mayr-Krifka (100 m sprint), Georg Totschnig (cycling), Franz Stocher (track cycling), swimmers Mirna Jukic, Markus Rogan and Maxim Podoprigora, and Tuncay Caliskan in taekwondo. ap
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