Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Four-man
| Four-man at the X Olympic Winter Games | |
 | |
| Venue | L'Alpe d'Huez |
|---|---|
| Dates | February 16 |
| Competitors | 76 from 11 nations |
| Winning time | 2:17.39 |
| Medalists | |
| Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two | men | |||
| Four | men | |||
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]
Results
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  Italy (ITA-1) | Eugenio Monti Luciano De Paolis Roberto Zandonella Mario Armano | 69.84 | 67.55 | 2:17.39 |
 |  Austria (AUT-1) | Erwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler Herbert Gruber Josef Eder | 70.08 | 67.40 | 2:17.48 |
 |  Switzerland (SUI-1) | Jean Wicki Hans Candrian Willi Hofmann Walter Graf | 70.65 | 67.39 | 2:18.04 |
| 4 | .svg.png){kind=small} Romania | Ion Panţuru Petre Hristovici Gheorghe Maftei Nicolae Neagoe | 70.59 | 67.55 | 2:18.14 |
| 5 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 |  Great Britain (GBR-1) | Tony Nash Guy Renwick Robin Widdows Robin Dixon | 70.45 | 68.39 | 2:18.84 |
| 8 |  France (FRA-1) | Francis Luiggi André Patey Gérard Monrazel Maurice Grether | 70.65 | 68.19 | 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 2 "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
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