Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Four-man

The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held on 15 and 16 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.[1][2]

Four-man
at the XII Olympic Winter Games
VenueOlympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates13–14 February
Competitors85 from 12 nations
Winning time3:40.43
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  East Germany
Meinhard Nehmer, Jochen Babock, Bernhard Germeshausen, Bernhard Lehmann
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Switzerland
Erich Schärer, Ueli Bächli, Ruedi Marti, Sepp Benz
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  West Germany
Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider, Bodo Bittner, Manfred Schumann
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Results

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Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
    East Germany (GDR-1) Meinhard Nehmer
Jochen Babock
Bernhard Germeshausen
Bernhard Lehmann
54.43 54.64 55.51 55.85 3:40.43
    Switzerland (SUI-2) Erich Schärer
Ueli Bächli
Ruedi Marti
Sepp Benz
54.96 54.81 55.28 55.84 3:40.89
    West Germany (FRG-1) Wolfgang Zimmerer
Peter Utzschneider
Bodo Bittner
Manfred Schumann
54.82 54.87 55.53 56.15 3:41.37
4   East Germany (GDR-2) Horst Schönau
Horst Bernhardt
Harald Seifert
Raimund Bethge
55.11 55.12 55.63 56.58 3:42.44
5   West Germany (FRG-2) Georg Heibl
Hans Morant
Siegfried Radandt
Fritz Ohlwärter
54.92 54.98 55.70 56.87 3:42.47
6   Austria (AUT-2) Werner Delle Karth
Andreas Schwab
Heinz Krenn
Otto Breg
Franz Köfel
54.66 55.80 56.10 56.65 3:43.21
7   Austria (AUT-1) Fritz Sperling
Kurt Oberhöller
Gerd Zaunschirm
Dieter Gehmacher
55.51 55.62 56.05 56.61 3:43.79
8   Romania (ROU-1) Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan
Paul Neagu
Costel Ionescu
Gheorghe Lixandru
55.54 55.51 56.18 56.68 3:43.91
9   Switzerland (SUI-1) Fritz Lüdi
Thomas Hagen
Rudolf Schmid
Karl Häseli
55.29 55.33 56.37 57.05 3:44.04
10   France Gérard Christaud-Pipola
Alain Roy
André Belle
Serge Hissung
55.75 55.66 56.43 57.06 3:44.90
11   Italy (ITA-2) Nevio De Zordo
Ezio Fiori
Roberto Porzia
Lino Benoni
55.75 55.80 57.08 57.17 3:45.80
12   Italy (ITA-1) Giorgio Alverà
Piero Vegnuti
Adriano Bee
Francesco Butteri
55.59 55.92 56.94 57.42 3:45.87
13   Great Britain (GBR-1) Jackie Price
Colin Campbell
Michael Sweet
Gomer Lloyd
56.02 56.07 56.72 57.58 3:46.39
14   Romania (ROU-2) Ion Panţuru
Constantin Romaniuc
Alexe Gheorghe Tănăsescu
Mihai Nicolau
56.09 56.23 56.81 57.57 3:46.70
15   United States (USA-1) Jimmy Morgan
Peter Brennan
John Proctor
Thomas Becker
56.09 56.08 56.96 57.59 3:46.72
16   Sweden Carl-Erik Eriksson
Jan Johansson
Leif Johansson
Kenth Rönn
56.12 56.48 56.87 57.65 3:47.12
17   Canada (CAN-1) Colin Nelson
Thomas Stehr
David Veale
Jim Lavalley
55.97 56.67 57.49 57.89 3:48.02
18   Japan Susumu Esashika
Kazumi Abe
Rikio Sato
Kimihiro Shinada
56.47 56.97 57.78 58.19 3:49.41
19   United States (USA-2) William Hollrock
Earl Frisbie
Frederick Fritsch
Phil Duprey
56.61 56.86 57.89 58.35 3:49.71
20   Great Britain (GBR-2) Mark Agar
Anthony Norton
Graham Sweet
Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn
57.21 56.88 57.75 58.01 3:49.85
21   Canada (CAN-2) Christopher Frank
William Dunn
Christopher Martin
Brian Vachon
57.43 56.87 57.87 58.69 3:50.86

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2018.