West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics

West Germany at the
1976 Winter Olympics
West Germany at the; 1976 Winter Olympics
	Flag of Germany
IOC code	FRG; (GER used at these Games)
NOC	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website	www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	71 (56 men, 15 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Wolfgang Zimmerer (bobsleigh)
Medals ; Ranked 5th	Gold2Silver5Bronze3Total10
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1968 ; 1972 ; 1976 ; 1980 ; 1984 ; 1988 ;
Other related appearances
	Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–); United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

Last updated October 25, 2024

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Rosi Mittermaier	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Gold	Rosi Mittermaier	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
Silver	Rosi Mittermaier	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom
Silver	Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Silver	Josef Fendt	Luge	Men's individual
Silver	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	Luge	Men's doubles
Silver	Urban Hettich	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Bronze	West Germany men's national ice hockey team Erich Weißhaupt Anton Kehle Rudolf Thanner Josef Volk Udo Kiessling Stefan Metz Klaus Auhuber Ignaz Berndaner Rainer Phillip Lorenz Funk Wolfgang Boos Ernst Köpf Ferenc Vozar Walter Koberle Erich Kühnhackl Alois Schloder Martin Hinterstocker Franz Reindl	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Bronze	Elisabeth Demleitner	Luge	Women's individual

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Wolfgang Junginger	Downhill					1:50.48	29
Michael Veith						1:49.02	22
Sepp Ferstl						1:48.41	17
Peter Fischer						1:48.18	15
Christian Neureuther	Giant Slalom	1:52.29	37	1:51.73	29	3:44.02	30
Sepp Ferstl		1:49.98	30	1:51.54	28	3:41.52	28
Wolfgang Junginger		1:49.79	29	1:46.23	14	3:36.02	19
Albert Burger		1:47.32	12	1:45.36	11	3:32.68	10
Sepp Ferstl	Slalom	1:06.32	29	1:08.02	20	2:14.34	20
Albert Burger		1:03.38	17	1:06.93	16	2:10.31	15
Christian Neureuther		1:01.70	8	1:04.86	5	2:06.56	5
Wolfgang Junginger		1:00.95	3	1:06.13	11	2:07.08	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Maria Epple	Downhill					1:51.41	23
Evi Mittermaier						1:49.23	13
Irene Epple						1:48.91	10
Rosi Mittermaier						1:46.16
Maria Epple	Giant Slalom					1:33.02	24
Irene Epple						1:31.46	15
Evi Mittermaier						1:30.64	8
Rosi Mittermaier						1:29.25
Monika Berwein	Slalom	49.17	14	DNF	–	DNF	–
Christa Zechmeister		48.20	8	45.52	6	1:33.72	7
Rosi Mittermaier		46.77	2	43.77	1	1:30.54
Pamela Behr		46.88	1	45.63	7	1:32.31	5

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Alois Kanamüller	1'17:25.26	8	1'25:25.26	34
	Josef Niedermeier	1'18:33.63	5	1'23:33.63	26
	Heinrich Mehringer	1'16:49.15	2	1'18:49.15	11

¹One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ²	Time	Rank
Heinrich Mehringer Gerd Winkler Josef Keck Claus Gehrke	4	2'04:11.86	4

²A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann	Two-man	56.09	2	56.31	3	56.26	2	56.33	2	3:44.99
FRG-2	Georg Heibl Fritz Ohlwärter	Two-man	56.36	4	56.43	4	56.59	5	56.75	6	3:46.13	5

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann	Four-man	54.82	3	54.87	3	55.53	3	56.15	3	3:41.37
FRG-2	Georg Heibl Hans Morant Siegfried Radandt Fritz Ohlwärter	Four-man	54.92	4	54.98	4	55.70	5	56.87	8	3:42.47	5

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Hans Speicher	48:28.90	45
	Franz Betz	47:39.15	38
	Georg Kandlinger	47:20.13	31
	Georg Zipfel	45:38.10	7
30 km	Walter Demel	1'37:44.17	40
	Hans Speicher	1'36:52.45	36
	Franz Betz	1'34:55.54	18
	Georg Zipfel	1'34:04.71	14
50 km	Georg Kandlinger	DNF	–
	Franz Betz	DNF	–
	Walter Demel	2'46:55.95	25
	Georg Zipfel	2'46:20.30	23

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Franz Betz Georg Kandlinger Walter Demel Georg Zipfel	2'12:38.96	9

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Iris Schulze	18:04.81	33
5 km	Michaela Endler	17:08.68	21
10 km	Iris Schulze	33:43.82	31
10 km	Michaela Endler	32:55.62	25

Figure skating

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Dagmar Lurz	7	10	11	178.04	92	10
Isabel De Navarre	1	11	12	182.42	59	5

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Corinna Halke Eberhard Rausch	8	8	127.37	72	8

Ice hockey

First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
West Germany	5–1	Switzerland

Medal round

Rank		Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	5	5	0	40	11	10
2	Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	17	10	6
3	West Germany	5	2	3	21	24	4
4	Finland	5	2	3	19	18	4
5	United States	5	2	3	15	21	4
6	Poland	5	1	4	9	37	2

West Germany 7-4 Poland
Finland 5-3 West Germany
USSR 7-3 West Germany
Czechoslovakia 7-4 West Germany
West Germany 4-1 USA

Leading scorers

Rk		GP	G	A	Pts
2nd	Erich Kuhnhackl	5	5	5	10
6th	Ernst Kopf	5	3	5	8
10th	Lorenz Funk	5	2	5	7

Team roster

Head coach: Xaver Unsinn

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Hölzlwimmer	52.766	4	n/a	?	n/a	?	n/a	?	DNF	–
Anton Winkler	52.755	3	52.194	5	52.219	7	52.352	6	3:29.520	6
Josef Fendt	52.694	2	51.933	1	51.749	3	51.820	2	3:28.196

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	42.792	2	43.097	4	1:25.889
Stefan Hölzlwimmer Rudi Größwang	43.205	5	43.033	3	1:26.238	4

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elisabeth Demleitner	43.138	7	42.535	1	42.388	2	42.995	7	2:51.056
Monika Scheftschik	42.863	2	42.732	4	42.981	9	42.964	5	2:51.540	7

Nordic combined

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Günther Abel	Individual	74.0	74.0	196.8	14	50:29.77	197.77	14	394.57	14
Urban Hettich	Individual	74.5	75.0	198.9	11	48:01.55	220.00	1	418.90

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Sepp Schwinghammer	Normal hill	75.5	106.1	76.5	109.2	215.3	23
Alfred Grosche	Normal hill	80.0	115.3	80.5	116.6	231.9	10
Alfred Grosche	Large hill	89.5	100.3	84.5	92.8	193.1	16

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Horst Freese	DNF	–
1000 m	Horst Freese	1:21.48	9
1500 m	Herbert Schwarz	2:03.76	12
5000 m	Herbert Schwarz	7:52.26	15

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	44.36	12
1000 m	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	1:29.54	5

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West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Flag of Germany
IOC code	FRG (GER used at these Games)
NOC	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website	www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	71 (56 men, 15 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Wolfgang Zimmerer (bobsleigh)
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 2 Silver 5 Bronze 3 Total 10
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–) United Team of Germany (1956–1964)