Olympic Winter Games 1976 / Participant (BR Germany)

FRG

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The Federal Republic of Germany took part in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck with a delegation of 71 (56 men, 15 women) athletes and took sixth place in the medal ranking. The bobsleigh pilot Wolfgang Zimmerer was chosen as the flag bearer of the West German team for the opening ceremony.

Medals

Medal table

rank	sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Alpine skiing	2	1	-	7th
2	Luge	-	2	1	6th
3	bob	-	1	1	4th
4th	Nordic combination	-	1	-	5
5	ice Hockey	-	-	1	1
total		2	5	3	10

Medalist

Name / s	sport	competition
gold
Rosi Mittermaier	Alpine skiing	Departure
		slalom
silver
Josef Fendt	Luge	Single seater
Urban Hettich	Nordic combination	Single normal hill
Rosi Mittermaier	Alpine skiing	Giant slalom
Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann	bob	Two-man bobsleigh
Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	Luge	Two-seater
bronze
Klaus Auhuber Ignaz Berndaner Wolfgang Boos Lorenz Funk Martin Hinterstocker Toni Kehle Udo Kießling Walter Köberle Ernst Köpf Erich Kühnhackl Stefan Metz Rainer Philipp Franz Reindl Alois Schloder Rudi Thanner Ferenc Vozar Josef Völk Erich Weishaupt	ice Hockey	team
Wolfgang Zimmerer Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann Peter Utzschneider	bob	Four-man bobsleigh
Elisabeth Demleitner	Luge	Single seater

Participants by sport

biathlon

Athletes	Competitions	time	error	rank
Men
Alois Kanamüller	20 km individual	1: 25: 25.26 h	8th	34
Heinrich Mehringer	20 km individual	1: 18: 49.15 h	2	11
Josef Niedermeier	20 km individual	1: 23: 33.63 h	5	26th
Claus Gehrke Josef Keck Heinrich Mehringer Gerhard Winkler	4 × 7.5 km relay	2:04: 11.86 h	4th	4th

bob

Athletes	competition	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Men
Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann	Two-man bobsleigh	56.09 s	2	56.31 s	3	56.26 s	2	56.33 s	2	3: 44.99 min	silver
Georg Heibl Fritz Ohlwärter	Two-man bobsleigh	56.36 s	4th	56.43 s	4th	56.59 s	5	56.75 s	6th	3: 46.13 min	5
Wolfgang Zimmerer Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann Peter Utzschneider	Four-man bobsleigh	54.82 s	3	54.87 s	3	55.53 s	3	56.15 s	3	3: 41.37 min	bronze
Georg Heibl Hans Morant Fritz Ohlwärter Siegfried Radandt	Four-man bobsleigh	54.92 s	4th	54.98 s	4th	55.70 s	5	56.87 s	8th	3: 42.47 min	5

ice Hockey

competition	Men
player	Klaus Auhuber Ignaz Berndaner Wolfgang Boos Lorenz Funk Martin Hinterstocker Toni Kehle Udo Kießling Walter Köberle Ernst Köpf Erich Kühnhackl Stefan Metz Rainer Philipp Franz Reindl Alois Schloder Rudi Thanner Ferenc Vozar Josef Völk Erich Weishaupt
Trainer	Xaver nonsense
Preliminary round	Switzerland 5: 1
Final round	Poland 7: 4 Finland 3: 5 Soviet Union 3: 7 Czechoslovakia 4: 7 United States 4: 1
placement	bronze

figure skating

Athletes	Competitions	mandatory	Short program	Freestyle / freestyle dance	total
		rank	rank	rank	Points	rank
Women
Isabel de Navarre	singles	1	11	12	182.42	5
Dagmar Lurz	singles	7th	10	11	178.04	10
Mixed
Corinna Halke Eberhard Rausch	Pair skating	-	8th	8th	127.37	8th

Speed ​​skating

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Women
Monika Pflug	500 m	44.36 s	12
	1000 m	1: 29.54 min OR	5
Men
Horst Freese	500 m	DNF
	1000 m	1: 21.48 min	9
Herbert Black	1500 m	2: 03.76 min	12
	5000 m	7: 52.26 min	15th

Nordic combination

Athletes	competition	Ski jumping				Cross-country skiing			total
		1. Width	2. Width	Points	rank	time	Points	rank	Points	rank
Men
Günther Abel	Single normal hill	74.0 m	74.0 m	196.8	14th	50: 29.77 min	197.77	14th	394.57	14th
Urban Hettich	Single normal hill	74.5 m	75.0 m	198.9	11	48: 01.55 min	220.00	1	418.90	silver

Luge

athlete	competition	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Elisabeth Demleitner	Single seater	43.138 s	7th	42.535 s	1	42.388 s	2	42.995 s	7th	2: 51.056 min	bronze
Monika Sheftschik	Single seater	42,863 s	2	42.732 s	4th	42.981 s	9	42,964 s	5	2: 51.540 min	7th
Men
Josef Fendt	Single seater	52.694 s	2	51.933 s	1	51.749 s	3	51.820 s	2	3: 28.196 min	silver
Stefan Hölzlwimmer	Single seater	52.766 s	4th	52.226 s	6th	52.036 s	4th	DNF
Anton Winkler	Single seater	52.755 s	3	52.194 s	5	52.219 s	7th	52.352 s	6th	3: 29.520 s	6th
Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	Two-seater	42.792 s	2	43.097 s	4th	-				1: 25.889 min	silver
Rudolf Großwang Stefan Hölzlwimmer	Two-seater	43.205 s	5	43.033 s	3					1: 26.238 min	4th

Alpine skiing

Athletes	competition	Run 1		Run 2		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Pamela Behr	slalom	46.88 s	1	45.63 s	7th	1: 32.31 min	5
Monika Berwein	slalom	49.17 s	14th	DNF
Irene Epple	Departure	-				1: 48.91 min	10
	Giant slalom					1: 31.46 min	15th
Maria Epple	Departure					1: 51.41 min	23
	Giant slalom					1: 33.02 min	24
Evi Mittermaier	Departure					1: 49.23 min	13
	Giant slalom					1: 30.64 min	8th
Rosi Mittermaier	Departure					1: 46.16 min	gold
	Giant slalom					1: 29.25 min	silver
	slalom	46.77 s	2	43.77 s	1	1: 30.54 min	gold
Christa Zechmeister	slalom	48.20 s	8th	45.52 s	6th	1: 33.72 min	7th
Men
Albert Burger	Giant slalom	1: 47.32 min	12	1: 45.36 min	11	3: 32.68 min	10
	slalom	1: 03.38 min	17th	1: 06.93 min	16	2: 10.31 min	15th
Sepp Ferstl	Departure	-				1: 48.41 min	17th
	Giant slalom	1: 49.98 min	30th	1: 51.54 min	28	3: 41.52 min	28
	slalom	1: 06.32 min	29	1: 08.02 min	20th	2: 14.34 min	20th
Peter Fischer	Departure	-				1: 48.18 min	15th
Wolfgang Junginger	Departure	-				1: 50.48 min	29
	Giant slalom	1: 49.79 min	29	1: 46.23 min	14th	3: 36.02 min	19th
	slalom	1: 00.95 min	3	1: 06.13 min	11	2: 07.08 min	6th
Christian Neureuther	Giant slalom	1: 52.29 min	37	1: 51.73 min	29	3: 44.02 min	30th
	slalom	1: 01.70 min	8th	1: 04.86 min	5	2: 06.56 min	5
Michael Veith	Departure	-				1: 49.02 min	22nd

Cross-country skiing

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Women
Michaela Endler	5 km	17: 08.68 min	21st
	10 km	32: 55.62 min	25th
Iris Schulze	5 km	18: 04.81 min	33
	10 km	33: 43.82 min	31
Men
Franz Betz	15 km	47: 39.15 min	38
	30 km	1: 34: 55.54 h	18th
	50 km	DNF
Walter Demel	30 km	1: 37: 44.17 h	40
	50 km	2: 46: 55.95 h	25th
Georg Kandlinger	15 km	47: 20.13 min	31
	50 km	DNF
Hans Speicher	15 km	48: 28.90 min	45
	30 km	1: 36: 52.45 h	36
Georg Zipfel	15 km	45: 38.10 min	7th
	30 km	1: 34: 04.71 h	14th
	50 km	2: 46: 20.30 h	23
Walter Demel Franz Betz Georg Kandlinger Georg Zipfel	4 × 10 km relay	2: 12: 38.96 h	9

Ski jumping

Athletes	competition	1st round			2nd round			total
		Expanse	Points	rank	Expanse	Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Alfred Grosche	Normal hill	80.0 m	115.3	13	80.5 m	116.6	9	231.9	10
	Large hill	89.5 m	100.3	13	84.5 m	92.8	16	193.1	16
Sepp Schwinghammer	Normal hill	75.5 m	106.1	26th	76.5 m	109.2	22nd	215.3	23

Web link

• German Olympic team 1976 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )