Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Four-man

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Four-man
at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Bobsleigh pictogram.svg
Venue Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates13–14 February 1976
Competitors85 from 12 nations
Winning time3:40.43
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Meinhard Nehmer, Jochen Babock, Bernhard Germeshausen, Bernhard Lehmann
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Erich Schärer, Ueli Bächli, Ruedi Marti, Sepp Benz
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider, Bodo Bittner, Manfred Schumann
  1972
1980  

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]

Results

[1]

RankCountryAthletesRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of East Germany.svg  East Germany  (GDR-1) Meinhard Nehmer
Jochen Babock
Bernhard Germeshausen
Bernhard Lehmann
54.4354.6455.5155.853:40.43
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI-2) Erich Schärer
Ueli Bächli
Ruedi Marti
Sepp Benz
54.9654.8155.2855.843:40.89
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  West Germany  (FRG-1) Wolfgang Zimmerer
Peter Utzschneider
Bodo Bittner
Manfred Schumann
54.8254.8755.5356.153:41.37
4Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany  (GDR-2) Horst Schönau
Horst Bernhardt
Harald Seifert
Raimund Bethge
55.1155.1255.6356.583:42.44
5Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany  (FRG-2) Georg Heibl
Hans Morant
Siegfried Radandt
Fritz Ohlwärter
54.9254.9855.7056.873:42.47
6Flag of Austria.svg  Austria  (AUT-2) Werner Delle Karth
Andreas Schwab
Heinz Krenn
Otto Breg
Franz Köfel
54.6655.8056.1056.653:43.21
7Flag of Austria.svg  Austria  (AUT-1) Fritz Sperling
Kurt Oberhöller
Gerd Zaunschirm
Dieter Gehmacher
55.5155.6256.0556.613:43.79
8Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania  (ROU-1) Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan
Paul Neagu
Costel Ionescu
Gheorghe Lixandru
55.5455.5156.1856.683:43.91
9Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI-1) Fritz Lüdi
Thomas Hagen
Rudolf Schmid
Karl Häseli
55.2955.3356.3757.053:44.04
10Flag of France.svg  France Gérard Christaud-Pipola
Alain Roy
André Belle
Serge Hissung
55.7555.6656.4357.063:44.90
11Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA-2) Nevio De Zordo
Ezio Fiori
Roberto Porzia
Lino Benoni
55.7555.8057.0857.173:45.80
12Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA-1) Giorgio Alverà
Piero Vegnuti
Adriano Bee
Francesco Butteri
55.5955.9256.9457.423:45.87
13Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR-1) Jackie Price
Colin Campbell
Michael Sweet
Gomer Lloyd
56.0256.0756.7257.583:46.39
14Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania  (ROU-2) Ion Panţuru
Constantin Romaniuc
Alexe Gheorghe Tănăsescu
Mihai Nicolau
56.0956.2356.8157.573:46.70
15Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA-1) Jimmy Morgan
Peter Brennan
John Proctor
Thomas Becker
56.0956.0856.9657.593:46.72
16Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Carl-Erik Eriksson
Jan Johansson
Leif Johansson
Kenth Rönn
56.1256.4856.8757.653:47.12
17Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN-1) Colin Nelson
Thomas Stehr
David Veale
Jim Lavalley
55.9756.6757.4957.893:48.02
18Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan Susumu Esashika
Kazumi Abe
Rikio Sato
Kimihiro Shinada
56.4756.9757.7858.193:49.41
19Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA-2) William Hollrock
Earl Frisbie
Frederick Fritsch
Phil Duprey
56.6156.8657.8958.353:49.71
20Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR-2) Mark Agar
Anthony Norton
Graham Sweet
Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn
57.2156.8857.7558.013:49.85
21Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN-2) Christopher Frank
William Dunn
Christopher Martin
Brian Vachon
57.4356.8757.8758.693:50.86

References

  1. 1 2 "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.