in the Nordic combined , in 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , he achieved his best finish with a fourth place in the individual normal hill , 0.6 points behind the bronze medalist Baldur Preiml of Austria , and the 1972 Winter Olympics , where he finished 37th in the wind-ravaged event in the Okurayama large hill .
Reithmeyer , who finishedolympics.olympic_medal_honorat Turin , earned her best career finish and became the first non-German to medal in this event at the Winter Olympics since fellow Austrian Angelika Neuner won bronze at Nagano in 1998 .
He competed at the 2000 Sydney Games where he finishedolympics.olympic_medal_honor, but he achieved his ambition on 15 August 2004 at the Athens Olympics after a flawless final round in which he was on target with all 25 shots to finish with an overall score of 149 out of 150 , beating Italy 's Giovanni Pellielo into the silver medal position , while Australia 's Adam Vella took bronze .