Doubles at the X Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Villard-de-Lans | ||||||||||||
Dates | 18 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 30 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:35.85 | ||||||||||||
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Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics | ||
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Singles | men | women |
Doubles | men | |
The doubles luge competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held on 18 February, at Villard-de-Lans. [1] With his win, Thomas Köhler became the first person to win in both men's singles (1964) and doubles. [2]
Rank [1] | Athletes | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
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![]() | Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler | ![]() | 47.88 | 47.97 | 1:35.85 |
![]() | Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch | ![]() | 48.16 | 48.18 | 1:36.34 |
![]() | Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann | ![]() | 48.58 | 48.71 | 1:37.29 |
4 | Hans Plenk Bernhard Aschauer | ![]() | 48.70 | 48.91 | 1:37.61 |
5 | Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow | ![]() | 48.80 | 49.01 | 1:37.81 |
6 | Zbigniew Gawior Ryszard Gawior | ![]() | 49.01 | 48.84 | 1:37.85 |
7 | Josef Feistmantl Wilhelm Biechl | ![]() | 48.81 | 49.30 | 1:38.11 |
8 | Giovanni Graber Enrico Graber | ![]() | 49.01 | 49.14 | 1:38.15 |
9 | Lucjan Kudzia Stanisław Paczka | ![]() | 49.09 | 49.08 | 1:38.17 |
10 | Ernesto Mair Sigisfredo Mair | ![]() | 49.10 | 49.57 | 1:38.67 |
11 | Georges Tresallet Ion Pervilhac | ![]() | 49.97 | 49.29 | 1:39.26 |
12 | Horst Urban Roland Urban | ![]() | 50.46 | 50.02 | 1:40.48 |
13 | Jan Hamřík František Halíř | ![]() | 51.85 | 50.85 | 1:42.70 |
14 | Ivar Bjare Jan Nilsson | ![]() | 51.04 | 52.52 | 1:43.56 |
- | Mike Hessel Jim Moriarty | ![]() | DNF | - | - |
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