Medal count Austria:

• 28 Austrian athletes (6 women and 22 men)
• Medal count: 9 medals (1 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze)
• Nation ranking: 49th place

Chef de Mission for Austria:

• Walter Pfaller

4,328 athletes from 159 nations competed from September 7th – 18th 2016 in Rio de Janeiro in: Archery, Athletics, Boccia, Canoeing, Cycling, Equestrian, Soccer
5-a-side, Soccer 7-a-side, Goalball, Judo, Weightlifting, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Sitting Volleyball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Triathlon, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair Fencing, Wheelchair Rugby and Wheelchair Tennis. Austria was represented in Cycling, Track and Field, Rowing, Table Tennis,
Equestrian, Wheelchair Tennis, Swimming, Sailing and Canoeing.

The XV Summer Paralympics were once again a real spectator magnet and as a result over 2.1 million spectators followed the games live on site. This makes Rio the second largest game in terms of tickets sold after London 2012, where 2.7 million spectators watched the Games live. However, a record number of TV viewers attended the Games. Around 5,000 media representatives covered the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro for 12 days, during which 220 world and 432 Paralympic records were broken.

In front of almost 80,000 spectators, cyclist and flag bearer Wolfgang Eibeck led Paralympic Team Austria at the opening ceremony, which was held under the motto “The heart has no limits. Everybody has a heart”, into the legendary Maracana Stadium. At the closing ceremony, the rider, as well as gold, and silver medalist, Pepo Puch had the pleasure of being the flag bearer, also in the soldout Maracana Stadium.

The 28 athletes of Paralympic Team Austria could take home 9 medals (1x gold, 4x silver and 4x bronze) and finished 49th in the medal table. The most successful Austrian athlete was rider and medal guarantor Pepo Puch with one gold medal and one silver medal.

The 28 athletes, who brought home a total of nine medals, and their assistants were welcomed to the airfield by ÖPC President Maria Rauch-Kallat. The team was also welcomed by, among others, Sports Minister Hans Peter Doskozil, Deputy Chairman of AUVA Wolfgang Birbamer, Vice President of WKO Mag. Jürgen Roth and ÖBSV President Brigitte Jank.

Media value & key figures for the Paralympics RIO 2016:

• Media value ÖPC: € 7,025,215
• Contact opportunities: 280,801,552

Television/ORF:

• 51 hours on ORF1, ORF2 and ORF Sport+, including 7.5 hours of LIVE coverage.
• The reach of 1 million viewers was clearly exceeded several times!

Print media:

• 1,133 print articles, of which 530 articles during the Paralympics.
• Courier supplement – 12-page KURIER-Extra on the topic “Paralympics RIO 2016” was published with a circulation of 184,000 copies

Online articles:

• 1,763 online articles on the Paralympics “RIO 2016”

ÖPC website:

• News articles are published several times a week, during the Paralympics there are several articles daily
• Paralympic Newsletter is sent at least 2x per month to about 2,600 subscribers – daily during the Paralympics

Access figures during RIO 2016:

• Total users: 10,279 people
• up to 3.900 hits per news article
• Page views: 34,708

• Post reach: 364,638 people, an average of 20,300 people per day
• Video views: 8,700 views, an average of 485 per day
• Interactions: 14,029 from users, an average of 779 interactions per day

For more information, visit: https://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016