Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Two-man
| 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]
Results
[edit]| 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 |
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West Germany (FRG-1) |
Horst Floth Pepi Bader |
76.04 | 75.38 | 74.35 | 73.07 | 4:58.84 |
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 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 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Final Report – XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1972. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's Two". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
