Sport in Austria

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Sports are widely practiced in Austria, both in professional and amateur competitions. The most popular sports are association football, alpine skiing and ice hockey.

Winter sports

Due to the mountainous terrain,

Tennis

Notable tennis players include Thomas Muster, winner of the 1995 French Open singles tournament; Dominic Thiem, winner of the 2020 US Open men's singles and finalist of the 2018 and 2019 French Open men's singles and 2020 Australian Open men's singles tournaments; Jürgen Melzer, world number 11 in the 2010 ATP World Tour and winner of the 2010 Wimbledon and 2011 US Open doubles tournaments; Barbara Schett, number 8 in the 1999 WTA Tour singles rankings; and Barbara Paulus, world number 13 in the 1996 WTA Tour singles rankings.

Motorsport

Motorsport is the third most popular spectator sport in Austria (after skiing and football).^[1] The Austrian Grand Prix is a Formula One race held in 1963, 1964, from 1970 to 1987, from 1997 to 2003 and since 2014. Several Austrian drivers have competed successfully in Formula One. Niki Lauda is a three-time champion (1975, 1977 and 1984) and seventh winningest driver with 25. Jochen Rindt was crowned 1970 champion, after being killed in practice for a race; he also won the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans. Gerhard Berger ranked third in 1988 and 1994, and has collected 10 wins and 48 podiums.

The top two motorsport venues are

Until the late 70s, Austria was one of Europe's main teams as it qualified for the EuroBasket six times. Since then, the team declined despite occasional strong showings at EuroBasket qualification games.

The most prominent Austrian basketball player today is

Austria is an emerging country for 3x3 basketball.^[4]

Rugby Union

American Football

The

DanceSport in Austria

Austria is an active member of the WDSF and hosts many annual competitions such as Austrian Open and world championships. Austrian dance athletes are noticeable in the world.

• Florian Gschaider and Manuela Stoeckl were amateur world ten-dance semifinalists in 2003 in Vancouver
• Vadim Garbuzov and Kathrin Menzinger are Austrian ballroom dancers and showmen. In 2015 they became world champions in Latin show ^[5] and world show champions in Standard show.^[6]

Popularizing DanceSport, Austrian television holds annual Dancing Stars show that enjoys its 9th season as of 2014.

Beach volleyball

Austria featured national teams in beach volleyball that competed at the 2018–2020 CEV Beach Volleyball Continental Cup in both the women's and the men's sections.^[7]

See also

• Austria at the Olympics

References

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Winter sports in Austria.

Media related to Sports in Austria at Wikimedia Commons

• "Austrian Teqball Federation launch",
  FITEQ
  (September 25, 2019)