Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Two-man
| Two-man at the XII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 6–7 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 48 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:44.42 | ||||||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics | |
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| 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][2]
Results
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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 East Germany (GDR-2) |
Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen |
56.24 | 56.04 | 55.87 | 56.27 | 3:44.42 |
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 West Germany (FRG-1) |
Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann |
56.09 | 56.31 | 56.26 | 56.33 | 3:44.99 |
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 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
- ^ a b "Final Report – XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Two". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
