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| Two-man at the XII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 6–7 February 1976 | ||||||||||||
| 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
[edit]| 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 |
 |  West Germany (FRG-1) | Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann | 56.09 | 56.31 | 56.26 | 56.33 | 3:44.99 |
 |  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
[edit]- ^ 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.
