Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Two-man

Two-man
at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates February 6 – 7
Competitors 48 from 13 nations
Winning time 3:44.42
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s)  East Germany
Meinhard Nehmer, Bernhard Germeshausen
2nd, silver medalist(s)  West Germany
Wolfgang Zimmerer, Manfred Schumann
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Switzerland
Erich Schärer, Sepp Benz
Bobsleigh at the
1976 Winter Olympics
Two   men
Four   men  

The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held on 6 and 7 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.[1]

Results

[1]

Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
1st, gold medalist(s)  East Germany (GDR-2) Meinhard Nehmer
Bernhard Germeshausen
56.24 56.04 55.87 56.27 3:44.42
2nd, silver medalist(s)  West Germany (FRG-1) Wolfgang Zimmerer
Manfred Schumann
56.09 56.31 56.26 56.33 3:44.99
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Switzerland (SUI-1) Erich Schärer
Sepp Benz
56.43 56.53 56.33 56.41 3:45.70
4  Austria (AUT-2) Fritz Sperling
Andreas Schwab
56.06 56.19 56.73 56.76 3:45.74
5  West Germany (FRG-2) Georg Heibl
Fritz Ohlwärter
56.36 56.43 56.59 56.75 3:46.13
6  Austria (AUT-1) Dieter Delle Karth
Franz Köfel
56.52 56.76 56.47 56.62 3:46.37
7  East Germany (GDR-1) Horst Schönau
Raimund Bethge
56.89 56.79 56.74 56.55 3:46.97
8  Italy (ITA-1) Giorgio Alverà
Franco Perruquet
56.62 56.71 56.84 57.13 3:47.30
9  Sweden Carl-Erik Eriksson
Kenth Rönn
57.09 57.20 57.16 56.96 3:48.41
10  Switzerland (SUI-2) Fritz Lüdi
Thomas Hagen
56.95 57.32 57.35 57.48 3:49.10
11  Romania (ROU-1) Ion Panţuru
Gheorghe Lixandru
57.15 57.43 57.85 57.66 3:50.09
12  Romania (ROU-2) Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan
Costel Ionescu
57.95 57.66 57.58 57.34 3:50.53
13  France (FRA-2) Alain Roy
Serge Hissung
57.58 57.43 57.58 57.95 3:50.54
14  United States (USA-1) Jimmy Morgan
Thomas Becker
57.68 57.63 57.66 57.79 3:50.76
15  France (FRA-1) Gérard Christaud-Pipola
Michel Lemarchand
57.43 57.73 57.78 58.08 3:51.02
16  Italy (ITA-2) Nevio De Zordo
Ezio Fiori
57.71 57.58 57.88 57.95 3:51.12
17  Czechoslovakia Jiří Paulát
Václav Sůva
57.78 57.74 57.97 58.22 3:51.71
18  Canada (CAN-1) Colin Nelson
Jim Lavalley
57.56 57.92 58.13 58.39 3:52.00
19  United States (USA-2) Brent Rushlaw
John Proctor
58.07 58.27 57.79 57.89 3:52.02
20  Great Britain (GBR-1) Jackie Price
Gomer Lloyd
58.05 58.13 57.90 58.02 3:52.10
21  Great Britain (GBR-2) Mark Agar
Michael Sweet
58.40 58.33 57.90 58.08 3:52.71
22  Japan (JPN-2) Rikio Sato
Kimihiro Shinada
58.52 58.30 58.55 58.35 3:53.72
23  Canada (CAN-2) Joey Kilburn
Brian Vachon
58.61 58.74 58.22 58.72 3:54.29
24  Japan (JPN-1) Susumu Esashika
Kazumi Abe
58.69 59.07 59.12 59.18 3:56.06

References

  1. 1 2 "Final Report - XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved February 1, 2014.

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