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Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Doubles

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Doubles
at the XII Olympic Winter Games
VenueOlympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates10 February
Competitors50 from 15 nations
Winning time1:25.604
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  East Germany
Hans Rinn, Norbert Hahn
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  West Germany
Hans Brandner, Balthasar Schwarm
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Austria
Rudolf Schmid, Franz Schachner
← 1972
1980 →

The Doubles luge competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held on 10 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.[1][2]

Results

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Rank[1] Athletes Country Run 1 Run 2 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hans Rinn
Norbert Hahn
 East Germany 42.773 42.831 1:25.604
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hans Brandner
Balthasar Schwarm
 West Germany 42.792 43.097 1:25.889
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rudolf Schmid
Franz Schachner
 Austria 42.997 42.922 1:25.919
4 Stefan Hölzlwimmer
Rudi Größwang
 West Germany 43.205 43.033 1:26.238
5 Manfred Schmid
Reinhold Sulzbacher
 Austria 43.035 43.389 1:26.424
6 Jindřich Zeman
Vladimír Resl
 Czechoslovakia 43.315 43.511 1:26.826
7 Karl Feichter
Ernst Haspinger
 Italy 43.853 43.318 1:27.171
8 Dainis Bremze
Aigars Krikis
 Soviet Union 43.667 43.740 1:27.407
9 Rolands Upatnieks
Valdis Ķuzis
 Soviet Union 43.732 43.850 1:27.582
10 Andrzej Żyła
Jan Kasielski
 Poland 43.748 43.989 1:27.737
11 Paul Hildgartner
Walter Plaikner
 Italy 43.781 44.058 1:27.839
12 Mirosław Więckowski
Andrzej Kozik
 Poland 44.025 43.977 1:28.002
13 Asle Strand
Helge Svensen
 Norway 44.097 44.357 1:28.454
14 Michael Gårdebäck
Nils Vinberg
 Sweden 44.958 44.259 1:29.217
15 Martin Ore
Eilif Nedberg
 Norway 44.744 44.534 1:29.278
16 Bernd Hahn
Ulli Hahn
 East Germany 43.291 46.556 1:29.847
17 Larry Arbuthnot
Doug Hansen
 Canada 44.933 45.102 1:30.035
18 Kazuaki Ichikawa
Masaaki Oyagi
 Japan 45.176 45.407 1:30.583
19 Max Beck
Wolfgang Schädler
 Liechtenstein 45.517 45.272 1:30.789
20 Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson
Michel de Carvalho
 Great Britain 46.400 44.977 1:31.377
21 Shieh Wei-Cheng
Huang Liu-Chong
 Republic of China 45.745 45.633 1:31.378
22 David McComb
Michael Shragge
 Canada 45.421 46.169 1:31.590
23 Robert Berkley, Jr.
Richard Cavanaugh
 United States 46.455 45.554 1:32.009
24 Jim Moriarty
John Fee
 United States 46.075 45.965 1:32.040
- Richard Liversedge
Russell Tapp
 Great Britain DNF - -

References

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  1. ^ a b "Final Report - XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Luge at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Doubles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.