1976 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics
information
venue	innsbruck
Competition venue	Igls Olympic bobsleigh run
Nations	13
Athletes	92 (92 )
date	6-14 February 1976
decisions	2
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At the XII. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , two bobsleigh competitions took place. The venue was the Olympic bobsleigh run in the Igls district .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	2	-	-	2
2	BR Germany	-	1	1	2
	Switzerland	-	1	1	2

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Two-man bobsleigh	Meinhard Nehmer , Bernhard Germeshausen	Wolfgang Zimmerer , Manfred Schumann	Erich Schärer , Josef Benz
Four-man bobsleigh	Meinhard Nehmer , Jochen Babock , Bernhard Germeshausen , Bernhard Lehmann	Erich Schärer , Ulrich Bächli , Rudolf Marti , Josef Benz	Wolfgang Zimmerer , Peter Utzschneider , Bodo Bittner , Manfred Schumann

Results

(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	GDR II: Meinhard Nehmer , Bernhard Germeshausen	56.24	56.04	55.87	56.27	3: 44.42
2	FRG	Germany I: Wolfgang Zimmerer , Manfred Schumann	56.09	56.31	56.26	56.33	3: 44.99
3	SUI	Switzerland I: Erich Schärer , Josef Benz	56.43	56.53	56.33	56.41	3: 45.70
4th	AUT	Austria II: Fritz Sperling , Andreas Schwab	56.06	56.19	56.73	56.76	3: 45.74
5	FRG	Germany II: Georg Heibl , Fritz Ohlwärter	56.36	56.43	56.59	56.75	3: 46.13
6th	AUT	Austria I: Dieter Delle Karth , Franz Köfel	56.52	56.76	56.47	56.62	3: 46.37
7th	GDR	GDR I: Horst Schönau , Raimund Bethge	56.89	56.79	56.74	56.55	3: 46.97
8th	ITA	Italy I: Giorgio Alverà , Franco Perruquet	56.62	56.71	56.84	57.13	3: 47.30
9	SWE	Sweden I: Carl-Erik Eriksson , Kenth Rönn	57.09	57.20	57.16	56.96	3: 48.41
10	SUI	Switzerland II: Fritz Lüdi , Thomas Hagen	56.95	57.32	57.35	57.48	3: 49.10

Runs 1 and 2: February 6, 1976 Runs
3 and 4: February 7, 1976

24 bobsleighs at the start, all in the ranking.

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	GDR I: Meinhard Nehmer , Jochen Babock , Bernhard Germeshausen , Bernhard Lehmann	54.43	54.64	55.51	55.85	3: 40.43
2	SUI	Switzerland II: Erich Schärer , Ulrich Bächli , Rudolf Marti , Josef Benz	54.96	54.81	55.28	55.84	3: 40.89
3	FRG	Germany I: Wolfgang Zimmerer , Peter Utzschneider , Bodo Bittner , Manfred Schumann	54.82	54.87	55.53	56.15	3: 41.37
4th	GDR	GDR II: Horst Schönau , Horst Bernhardt , Harald Seifert , Raimund Bethge	55.11	55.12	55.63	56.58	3: 42.44
5	FRG	Germany II: Georg Heibl , Hans Morant , Siegfried Radandt , Fritz Ohlwärter	54.92	54.98	55.70	56.87	3: 42.47
6th	AUT	Austria II: Werner Delle Karth , Andreas Schwab , Heinz Krenn , Otto Breg , Franz Köfel	54.66	55.80	56.10	56.65	3: 43.21
7th	AUT	Austria I: Fritz Sperling , Kurt Oberhöller , Gerd Zaunschirm , Dieter Gehmacher	55.51	55.62	56.05	56.61	3: 43.79
8th	ROME	Romania I: Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan , Paul Neagu , Costel Ionescu , Gheorghe Lixandru	55.54	55.51	56.18	56.68	3: 43.91
9	SUI	Switzerland I: Fritz Lüdi , Thomas Hagen , Rudolf Schmid , Karl Häseli	55.29	55.33	56.37	57.05	3: 44.04
10	FRA	France I: Gérard Christaud-Pipola , Alain Roy , André Belle , Serge Hissung	55.75	55.66	56.43	57.06	3: 44.90

Runs 1 and 2: February 13, 1976 Runs
3 and 4: February 14, 1976

21 bobsleighs at the start, all rated.

Switzerland II set the fastest times in rounds 3 and 4, but GDR I's lead was too big to still win the gold medal. Austria II had to contest the last run with substitute Gert Krenn because Andreas Schwab was injured.

Web links

• Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1976 Winter Olympics (PDF; 31.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GDR stays ahead . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1976, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).