Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Four-man
| Four-man at the XI Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Sapporo Teine | |||||||||
| Dates | 11–12 February | |||||||||
| Competitors | 72 from 11 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 4:43.07 | |||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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| Two | men |
| Four | men |
The four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo was held on 11 and 12 February, at Sapporo Teine.[1][2]
Results
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Switzerland (SUI-1) |
Jean Wicki Hans Leutenegger Werner Camichel Edy Hubacher |
70.71 | 54.64 | 55.51 | 55.85 | 4:43.07 |
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 Italy (ITA-1) |
Corrado Dal Fabbro Gianni Bonichon |
71.39 | 54.98 | 55.70 | 56.87 | 4:43.83 |
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 West Germany (FRG-1) |
Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Walter Steinbauer Peter Utzschneider |
71.18 | 54.87 | 55.53 | 56.15 | 4:43.92 |
| 4 | Switzerland (SUI-2) |
Hans Candrian Erwin Juon Gaudenz Beeli Heinz Schenker |
72.36 | 56.23 | 56.81 | 57.57 | 4:44.56 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG-2) |
Horst Floth Donat Ertel Walter Gillik Pepi Bader |
70.83 | 54.81 | 55.28 | 55.84 | 4:45.09 |
| 6 |  Austria (AUT-1) |
Herbert Gruber Utz Chwalla Josef Eder Josef Oberhauser |
71.20 | 55.12 | 55.63 | 56.58 | 4:45.77 |
| 7 | Austria (AUT-2) |
Werner Delle Karth Werner Moser Walter Delle Karth Fritz Sperling |
71.58 | 55.51 | 56.18 | 56.68 | 4:46.66 |
| 8 | Italy (ITA-2) |
Luciano De Paolis |
71.89 | 55.66 | 56.43 | 57.06 | 4:46.73 |
| 9 |  France |
Patrick Parisot Yves Bonsang Alain Roy Gilles Morda |
71.79 | 55.33 | 56.37 | 57.05 | 4:46.75 |
| 10 |  Romania |
Dumitru Focşeneanu |
72.07 | 55.80 | 57.08 | 57.17 | 4:47.12 |
| 11 |  Sweden |
Carl-Erik Eriksson Tom Mentzer Thomas Gustafsson Jan Johansson |
72.14 | 55.92 | 56.94 | 57.42 | 4:47.40 |
| 12 |  Japan (JPN-1) |
Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe Rikio Sato Yoshiyuki Ichihashi |
71.51 | 55.62 | 56.05 | 56.61 | 4:47.92 |
| 13 |  Canada |
Hans Gehrig David Richardson Peter Blakeley Andrew Faulds |
72.61 | 56.08 | 56.96 | 57.59 | 4:48.06 |
| 14 |  United States (USA-2) |
72.31 | 56.07 | 56.72 | 57.58 | 4:48.43 | |
| 15 |  Great Britain (GBR-2) |
John Hammond Jackie Price Alan Jones Peter Clifford |
73.00 | 56.67 | 57.49 | 57.89 | 4:50.46 |
| 16 | Great Britain (GBR-1) |
Bill Sweet |
72.83 | 56.48 | 56.87 | 57.65 | 4:51.03 |
| United States (USA-1) |
Howard Siler, Jr. Thomas Becker |
DQ | 56.97 | 57.78 | 58.19 | DQ | |
| Japan (JPN-2) |
Toshihisa Nagata Hiroshi Inaba Koichi Sugawara Akihiko Suzuki |
71.51 | 55.80 | 56.10 | 56.65 | DQ |
References
- ^ a b "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
