Top Austrian golfer Bernd Wiesberger was pipped to the post at the Austrian Open play-offs on Sunday by Swede Mikael Lundberg. Lundberg managed to hold off the 2012 European Tour champion with a 40-foot birdie putt on the par-three 18th hole. The win was the 49-year-old Swede’s first European Tour victory in nearly six years. […]
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Hinterseer to become a MT wax statue
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By Rob Hyde Madame Tussauds Vienna is organising a life-size wax sculpture of fur boot-loving, golden-locked Austrian folk singer, Hansi Hinterseer. The singer and former Austrian skier, famous for his dyed blonde hair, friendly smile, and hits such as “Heut ist dein Tag” and “Ich denk an Dich”, is to appear next year in the […]
Austria’s world champion ballplayer Jasmin Ouschan has helped fund an international billiard centre in her homeland. The 26-year-old who has almost superstar status for her skills in America and Asia but is less well-known in her ski loving homeland said that she hoped to make the sport more attractive to her Austrian countrymen. She started […]
Vienna debut for WPT
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A World Poker Tour (WPT) is taking place in Vienna for the first time.Cardplayer.com reports today (Thurs) that the 3,500-Euro buy-in tournament at the Montesino Casino in the citys Simmering district starts today. The online games news platform added that four more events will take place at the venue until 30 March.The WPT will then […]
Federal High Court judges dismissed appeals to lower the sentence of a man who stabbed a former boxing champion to death.Judge Brigitte Kunst, who headed the three-member senate in todays (Thurs) trial, said the Chechen defendants 20-year sentence will not be lowered as requested by his lawyer Lennart Binder.Zaurbek Bersanov, 27, was found guilty of […]
Five teenage would-be muggers did a runner after their judo champion victim proved his skills when they tried taking his mobile.The gang fled as the boy, 15, punched one of the attackers in the face in the after-school incident in Graz yesterday (Weds).The unharmed teenager then went to the next police station to report the […]
Karl Schranz suffers ski tour accident
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Skiing legend Karl Schranz has been hospitalised after suffering a severe concussion and bruises on a ski tour in Tyrol yesterday, it was confirmed today (Thurs).A spokesman at Zams clinic said newspaper reports that the 71-year-old was hospitalised yesterday after an accident near Sankt Anton am Arlberg were correct.Schranz told the Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper today: […]
Austrian Formula One legend Niki Lauda has accused Michael Schumachers new team of “understatement” on the eve of the new F1 season set to start in less than two weeks time.Lauda told ORF.at today (Tues): “The claim that Mercedes [GP] is struggling and will not be able to drive for victory is an understatement in […]