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Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Two-man

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Two-man
at the X Olympic Winter Games
VenueL'Alpe d'Huez
Dates8–11 February
Competitors44 from 11 nations
Winning time4:41.54
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Eugenio Monti, Luciano De Paolis  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Horst Floth, Pepi Bader  West Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ion Panţuru, Nicolae Neagoe  Romania
← 1964
1972 →

The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held on 4 and 5 February, at L'Alpe d'Huez.[1][2] There was a tie for first place. Despite initially ruling that both teams would be awarded the gold medals, the judges awarded the sole gold to the Italian team based on their fastest single heat time. Panturu and Neagoe are the only Romanians to medal at the Winter Olympics as of the 2022 Games.

Results

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Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy (ITA-1) Eugenio Monti
Luciano De Paolis
70.13 70.72 70.64 70.05 4:41.54
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  West Germany (FRG-1) Horst Floth
Pepi Bader
70.76 70.43 70.20 70.15 4:41.54
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Romania (ROU-1) Ion Panţuru
Nicolae Neagoe
70.20 71.62 71.31 71.33 4:44.46
4  Austria (AUT-1) Erwin Thaler
Reinhold Durnthaler
71.27 71.26 70.72 71.88 4:45.13
5  Great Britain (GBR-1) Tony Nash
Robin Dixon
70.57 71.60 71.77 71.22 4:45.16
6  United States (USA-1) Paul Lamey
Robert Huscher
71.30 71.54 71.04 72.15 4:46.03
7  West Germany (FRG-2) Wolfgang Zimmerer
Peter Utzschneider
72.36 71.94 70.77 71.33 4:46.40
8  Austria (AUT-2) Max Kaltenberger
Fritz Dinkhauser
71.34 72.15 71.00 72.14 4:46.63
9  Switzerland (SUI-1) Jean Wicki
Hans Candrian
70.60 71.72 72.01 72.65 4:46.98
10  Switzerland (SUI-2) René Stadler
Max Forster
71.60 72.74 72.36 72.46 4:49.16
11  United States (USA-2) Howard Clifton
Michael Luce
72.10 72.18 71.88 73.15 4:49.31
12  Italy (ITA-2) Rinaldo Ruatti
Sergio Mocellini
71.80 72.29 73.27 72.95 4:50.31
13  Spain (ESP-2) José María Palomo
José Manuel Pérez
71.97 72.60 74.34 72.25 4:51.16
14  Sweden (SWE-1) Rolf Höglund
Börje Hedblom
72.77 73.17 72.62 72.63 4:51.19
15  Great Britain (GBR-2) John Blockey
Mike Freeman
72.06 72.25 73.79 73.17 4:51.27
16  France (FRA-1) Bertrand Croset
Henri Sirvain
72.36 72.79 72.35 73.78 4:51.28
17  Spain (ESP-1) Eugenio Baturone
Maximiliano Jones
72.76 74.30 72.81 71.67 4:51.54
18  Sweden (SWE-2) Carl-Erik Eriksson
Eric Wennerberg
72.75 72.69 72.84 73.41 4:51.69
19  Canada (CAN-1) Purvis McDougall
Bob Storey
73.89 72.80 73.68 73.73 4:54.10
20  France (FRA-2) Gérard Christaud-Pipola
Jacques Christaud-Pipola
71.24 94.47 72.49 73.47 5:11.67
 Romania (ROU-2) Romeo Nedelcu
Gheorghe Maftei
? ? ? DNF
 Canada (CAN-2) Hans Gehrig
Harry Goetschi
DQ

References

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  1. ^ a b "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Two". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2018.