1980 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics |
|
---|---|
information | |
venue | North Elba |
Competition venue | Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic bobsleigh run |
Nations | 11 |
Athletes | 78 (78 ) |
date | 15.-24. February 1980 |
decisions | 2 |
← Innsbruck 1976 |
With the XIII. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , two bobsleigh competitions were held. The venue was the bobsled run on Mount Van Hoevenberg .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GDR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
2 | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Two-man bobsleigh | Erich Schärer , Josef Benz | Bernhard Germeshausen , Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | Meinhard Nehmer , Bogdan Musiol |
Four-man bobsleigh |
Meinhard Nehmer , Bogdan Musiol , Bernhard Germeshausen , Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt |
Erich Schärer , Ulrich Bächli , Rudolf Marti , Josef Benz |
Horst Schönau , Roland Wetzig , Detlef Richter , Andreas Kirchner |
Results
(all times in min)
Two-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | 1st run | 2nd run | 3rd run | 4th run | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | SUI | Switzerland II: Erich Schärer , Josef Benz | 1: 01.87 | 1: 02.76 | 1: 02.29 | 1: 02.44 | 4: 09.36 |
2 | GDR | GDR II: Bernhard Germeshausen , Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | 1: 02.58 | 1: 02.48 | 1: 03.31 | 1: 02.56 | 4: 10.93 |
3 | GDR | GDR I: Meinhard Nehmer , Bogdan Musiol | 1: 02.39 | 1: 02.88 | 1: 02.86 | 1: 02.95 | 4: 11.08 |
4th | SUI | Switzerland I: Hans Hiltebrand , Walter Rahm | 1: 02.37 | 1: 02.96 | 1: 03.35 | 1: 02.64 | 4: 11.32 |
5 | United States | USA II: Howard Siler , Dick Nalley | 1: 03.04 | 1: 03.04 | 1: 02.65 | 1: 03.00 | 4: 11.73 |
6th | United States | USA I: Brent Rushlaw , Joseph Tyler | 1: 02.90 | 1: 02.81 | 1: 02.99 | 1: 03.42 | 4: 12.12 |
7th | AUT | Austria II: Fritz Sperling , Kurt Oberhöller | 1: 03.58 | 1: 03.64 | 1: 03.13 | 1: 03.23 | 4: 13.58 |
8th | FRG | Germany I: Peter Hell , Heinz Busche | 1: 03.87 | 1: 03.63 | 1: 02.91 | 1: 03.33 | 4: 13.74 |
9 | AUT | Austria I: Franz Paulweber , Gerd Zaunschirm | 1: 03.52 | 1: 03.67 | 1: 03.01 | 1: 03.70 | 4: 13.90 |
10 | GBR | Great Britain I: Jonnie Woodall , John Howell | 1: 04.12 | 1: 04.12 | 1: 03.65 | 1: 04.03 | 4: 15.92 |
12 | FRG | Germany II: Georg Großmann , Alexander Wernsdorfer | 1: 03.50 | 1: 04.93 | 1: 03.85 | 1: 03.85 | 4: 16.13 |
Runs 1 and 2: February 15, 1980 Runs
3 and 4: February 16, 1980
20 bobsleighs at the start, all in the ranking.
After 2 runs, Schärer was leading in 2: 04.63 ahead of Germeshausen (2: 05.06), Nehmer (2: 05.27), Hildebrand (2: 05.33); the two Austrian sledges, Paulweber (2: 07.19) and Sperling (2: 07.22), were in 7th and 8th place - Schärer achieved a track record of 1: 01.87 in the first run, which was the basis for the gold medal and on the second day, despite poor track conditions (plus snowfall), he further expanded his lead.
Four-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | 1st run | 2nd run | 3rd run | 4th run | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GDR | GDR I: Meinhard Nehmer , Bogdan Musiol , Bernhard Germeshausen , Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt |
0: 59.86 | 1: 00.03 | 0: 59.73 | 1: 00.30 | 3: 59.92 |
2 | SUI | Switzerland I: Erich Schärer , Ulrich Bächli , Rudolf Marti , Josef Benz |
1: 00.31 | 1: 00.41 | 1: 00.02 | 1: 00.13 | 4: 00.87 |
3 | GDR | GDR II: Horst Schönau , Roland Wetzig , Detlef Richter , Andreas Kirchner |
1: 00.24 | 1: 00.35 | 1: 00.04 | 1: 00.34 | 4: 00.97 |
4th | AUT | Austria I: Fritz Sperling , Bernhard Purkrabek , Heinrich Bergmüller , Franz Rednak |
1: 00.75 | 1: 00.77 | 1: 00.41 | 1: 00.69 | 4: 02.62 |
5 | AUT | Austria II: Walter Delle Karth , Kurt Oberhöller , Franz Paulweber , Gerhard Zaunschirm |
1: 00.91 | 1: 01.12 | 1: 00.25 | 1: 00.67 | 4: 02.95 |
6th | SUI | Switzerland II: Hans Hiltebrand , Armin Baumgartner , Ulrich Schindler , Walter Rahm |
1: 01.13 | 1: 01.00 | 1: 00.54 | 1: 01.02 | 4: 03.69 |
7th | FRG | Germany I: Peter Hell , Hans Wagner , Heinz Busche , Walter Barfuss |
1: 01.14 | 1: 01.22 | 1: 00.57 | 1: 01.47 | 4: 04.40 |
8th | ROME | Romania I: Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan , Dorel Cristudor , Sandu Mitrofan , Gheorghe Lixandru |
1: 01.42 | 1: 01.32 | 1: 00.61 | 1: 01.33 | 4: 04.68 |
9 | GBR | Great Britain I: Jonnie Woodall , Tony Wallington , Corrie Brown , John Howell |
1: 01.44 | 1: 01.42 | 1: 00.98 | 1: 01.08 | 4: 04.92 |
10 | FRG | Germany II: Alois Schnorbus , Lothar Pongratz , Jürgen Hofmann , Martin Meinberg |
1: 01.54 | 1: 01.47 | 1: 00.93 | 1: 01.21 | 4: 05.15 |
Runs 1 and 2: February 23, 1980 Runs
3 and 4: February 24, 1980
17 bobsleighs at the start, 15 of them in the classification (Bob Sweden I disqualified in the last run, Bob Canada I eliminated in the third run)
Hiltebrand was in training ahead of Nehmer and Austria I (Sperling), Switzerland I (Schärer), Sweden I (Eriksson ) and Austria III (Delle Karth) ahead; Austria II (Paul Krenn) was eliminated from the competition in 14th place.
Meinhard Nehmer set a track record in the first run, his 59:86 were below the one-minute limit for the first time, and he was able to top this record again in the third run (59:73). Now, at the age of 39, he ended his impressive career with a total of three Olympic gold medals.
Fritz Sperling was eliminated from the fight for medals after the first day, in the third run he came too high in the Shady . At Delle Karth, the small mistakes added up. Nevertheless, one could be satisfied with ranks 4 and 5. The ranking list after two runs was GDR I, GDR II, SUI I, AUT 1, but Fritz Sperling was almost a second behind the bronze rank, so the chance of a medal was low.
Web links
- Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1980 Winter Olympics (PDF; 3.2 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Duel Switzerland - GDR" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1980, p. 08 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Columns 4 and 5, below: “E. Superior to Schärer's two-man bobsleigh ” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1980, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Columns 2 and 3, below: “Dellekarth in the fourth third” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1980, p. 18 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Columns 1 and 2 above: "Bob: only a slim chance" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Columns 2 and 3 middle: “Last gold for takers” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).