Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Four-man
at the X Olympic Winter Games
VenueL'Alpe d'Huez
Dates16 February
Competitors76 from 11 nations
Winning time2:17.39
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy
Eugenio Monti, 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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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

[1]

Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy (ITA-1) Eugenio Monti
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) 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

  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.