Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Four-man

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Four-man
at the X Olympic Winter Games
L'Alpe d'Huez
Dates16 February
Competitors76 from 11 nations
Winning time2:17.39
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  
Luciano De Paolis, Roberto Zandonella, Mario Armano
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Austria
Erwin Thaler, Reinhold Durnthaler, Herbert Gruber, Josef Eder
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Switzerland
Jean Wicki, Hans Candrian, Willi Hofmann, Walter Graf
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Bobsleigh at the
1968 Winter Olympics
Twomen
Fourmen

The Four-man

L'Alpe d'Huez. A sudden thaw in the ice on the track limited the competition to two runs.[1][2]

Results

[1]

Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy (ITA-1)
Luciano De Paolis
Roberto Zandonella
Mario Armano
 69.84 67.55 2:17.39
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Austria (AUT-1) Erwin Thaler
Reinhold Durnthaler
Herbert Gruber
Josef Eder		 70.08 67.40 2:17.48
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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)
Maurice Grether
 70.65 68.19 2:18.84
8  Great Britain (GBR-1)
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
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

  1. ^ 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.
  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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