| Two-man at the XI Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Sapporo Teine | |||||||||
| Dates | 4–5 February | |||||||||
| Competitors | 42 from 11 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 4:57.07 | |||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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| Two | men |
| Four | men |
The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo was held on 4 and 5 February, at Sapporo Teine. [1] [2]
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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 |  West Germany (FRG-2) | Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider | 74.81 | 74.56 | 73.51 | 74.19 | 4:57.07 |
 | West Germany (FRG-1) | Horst Floth Pepi Bader | 76.04 | 75.38 | 74.35 | 73.07 | 4:58.84 |
 |  Switzerland (SUI-1) | Jean Wicki Edy Hubacher | 75.61 | 75.36 | 74.36 | 74.00 | 4:59.33 |
| 4 |  Italy (ITA-1) | Gianfranco Gaspari Mario Armano | 75.62 | 76.52 | 73.71 | 74.60 | 5:00.45 |
| 5 |  Romania (ROU-1) | Ion Panţuru Ion Zangor | 76.50 | 75.31 | 74.04 | 74.68 | 5:00.53 |
| 6 |  Sweden | Carl-Erik Eriksson Jan Johansson | 76.68 | 76.81 | 74.08 | 73.83 | 5:01.40 |
| 7 | Switzerland (SUI-2) | Hans Candrian Heinz Schenker | 75.89 | 76.84 | 74.38 | 74.33 | 5:01.44 |
| 8 |  Austria (AUT-1) | Herbert Gruber Josef Oberhauser | 76.48 | 76.34 | 74.44 | 74.34 | 5:01.60 |
| 9 |  France (FRA-1) | Patrick Parisot Alain Roy | 76.66 | 77.17 | 74.53 | 75.10 | 5:03.46 |
| 10 | Italy (ITA-2) | Enzo Vicario Corrado Dal Fabbro | 77.20 | 76.77 | 74.23 | 75.46 | 5:03.66 |
| 11 | France (FRA-2) | Gérard Christaud-Pipola Jacques Christaud-Pipola | 77.08 | 77.25 | 74.81 | 75.05 | 5:04.19 |
| 12 | Romania (ROU-2) | Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan Dumitru Focşeneanu | 77.98 | 77.00 | 74.67 | 75.24 | 5:04.89 |
| 13 | Austria (AUT-2) | Werner Delle Karth Fritz Sperling | 76.99 | 77.91 | 75.84 | 74.61 | 5:05.35 |
| 14 |  Canada (CAN-2) | Bob Storey Michael Hartley | 78.49 | 76.70 | 74.90 | 75.61 | 5:05.70 |
| 15 |  Japan (JPN-1) | Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe | 78.13 | 76.43 | 75.17 | 76.86 | 5:06.59 |
| 16 |  United States (USA-1) | Paul Lamey Howard Siler, Jr. | 78.13 | 76.93 | 75.52 | 76.04 | 5:06.62 |
| 17 |  Great Britain (GBR-2) | John Hammond Bill Sweet | 78.09 | 78.18 | 75.71 | 74.98 | 5:06.96 |
| 18 | United States (USA-2) | Boris Said, Jr. Thomas Becker | 77.34 | 76.93 | 76.66 | 77.71 | 5:08.64 |
| 19 | Canada (CAN-1) | Hans Gehrig Andrew Faulds | 78.82 | 78.36 | 75.66 | 76.06 | 5:08.90 |
| 20 | Great Britain (GBR-1) | John Evelyn Peter Clifford | 78.60 | 77.23 | 75.80 | 77.38 | 5:09.01 |
| 21 | Japan (JPN-2) | Akihiko Suzuki Rikio Sato | 78.98 | 78.46 | 75.63 | 78.84 | 5:11.91 |
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