Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Four-man
at the X Olympic Winter Games
Four-man; at the X Olympic Winter Games
Venue	L'Alpe d'Huez
Dates	16 February
Competitors	76 from 11 nations
Winning time	2:17.39
Medalists
	← 1964 1972 →

The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held on 16 February, at L'Alpe d'Huez. A sudden thaw in the ice on the track limited the competition to two runs.^[1]^[2]

Results

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Rank	Country	Athletes	Run 1	Run 2	Total
	Italy (ITA-1)	Eugenio Monti Luciano De Paolis Roberto Zandonella Mario Armano	69.84	67.55	2:17.39
	Austria (AUT-1)	Erwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler Herbert Gruber Josef Eder	70.08	67.40	2:17.48
	Switzerland (SUI-1)	Jean Wicki Hans Candrian Willi Hofmann Walter Graf	70.65	67.39	2:18.04
4	Romania	Ion Panţuru Petre Hristovici Gheorghe Maftei Nicolae Neagoe	70.59	67.55	2:18.14
5	West Germany (FRG-1)	Horst Floth Willi Schäfer Frank Lange Pepi Bader	70.49	67.84	2:18.33
6	Italy (ITA-2)	Gianfranco Gaspari Giuseppe Rescigno Andrea Clemente Leonardo Cavallini	70.24	68.12	2:18.36
7	France (FRA-1)	Francis Luiggi André Patey Gérard Monrazel Maurice Grether	70.65	68.19	2:18.84
8	Great Britain (GBR-1)	Tony Nash Guy Renwick Robin Widdows Robin Dixon	70.45	68.39	2:18.84
9	West Germany (FRG-2)	Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Hans Baumann Peter Utzschneider	71.12	68.35	2:19.47
10	United States (USA-2)	Boris Said, Jr. David Dunn Robert Crowley Phil Duprey	71.08	68.48	2:19.56
11	France (FRA-2)	Bertrand Croset Claude Roussel Louis Courtois Henri Sirvain	71.11	68.61	2:19.72
12	Switzerland (SUI-2)	René Stadler Hansruedi Müller Robert Zimmermann Ernst Schmidt	71.02	68.81	2:19.83
13	Austria (AUT-2)	Manfred Hofer Hans Ritzl Fritz Dinkhauser Karl Pichler	70.90	69.12	2:20.02
14	Great Britain (GBR-2)	John Blockey John Brown Tim Thorn Mike Freeman	71.52	68.67	2:20.19
15	United States (USA-1)	Bill Hickey Howard Clifton Michael Luce Paul Savage	71.45	68.92	2:20.37
16	Sweden	Rolf Höglund Hans Hallén Sven Martinsson Börje Hedblom	72.20	69.90	2:22.10
17	Canada	Purvis McDougall Bob Storey Michael Young Andrew Faulds	72.61	70.21	2:22.82
18	Spain (ESP-2)	Víctor Palomo Maximiliano Jones José Clot Eugenio Baturone	72.86	70.32	2:23.18
19	Spain (ESP-1)	Guillermo Rosal Néstor Alonso José Manuel Pérez Antonio Marín	72.90	71.42	2:24.32

References

^ ^a ^b "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "Bobsleigh at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

[OfficialReport-1] "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved 1 February 2014.

[SR-2] "Bobsleigh at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

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