Rudolf Watzl (14 April 1882 – 15 August 1915) was an Austrian Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece and won a gold and a bronze medal.

Watzl went on to compete in two events, the first was the Greco-Roman Lightweight class, and in the first round he beat the Greek wrestler Dimitrios Kolyvas,[3] in the semi-finals he went on to beat Renè Dobrinovitz from Belgium.

[4] The final was a three way round robin event, first Watzl beat Ferenc Holubán from Hungary, then in a forty-minute contest he overcame the Danish wrestler Carl Carlsen to win the gold medal.

[5] Watzl also competed in the All-Round contest an event which all three weight winners contested, Watzl lost in the first round to Søren Marinus Jensen from Denmark, so won the bronze medal.

[6] During World War One, Watzl joined the Austro-Hungarian Army, but during one of the counter offensives of the fortress of Przemyśl, in Poland, he was taken ill and on 15 August 1915 he died from typhoid.