Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Four-man explained

Event:	Four-man
Games:	1968 Winter
Venue:	L'Alpe d'Huez
Dates:	16 February
Competitors:	76
Nations:	11
Win Value:	2:17.39
Gold:	Eugenio Monti, Luciano De Paolis, Roberto Zandonella, Mario Armano
Silver:	Erwin Thaler, Reinhold Durnthaler, Herbert Gruber, Josef Eder
Bronze:	Jean Wicki, Hans Candrian, Willi Hofmann, Walter Graf
Prev:	1964
Next:	1972

The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held on 16 February, at L'Alpe d'Huez. A sudden thaw in the ice on the track limited the competition to two runs.^{[1] [2]}

Results

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Rank	Country	Athletes	Run 1	Run 2	Total
		Eugenio Monti Luciano De Paolis Roberto Zandonella Mario Armano	69.84	67.55	2:17.39
		Erwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler Herbert Gruber Josef Eder	70.08	67.40	2:17.48
		Jean Wicki Hans Candrian Willi Hofmann Walter Graf	70.65	67.39	2:18.04
4		Ion Panţuru Petre Hristovici Gheorghe Maftei Nicolae Neagoe	70.59	67.55	2:18.14
5		Horst Floth Willi Schäfer Frank Lange Pepi Bader	70.49	67.84	2:18.33
6		Gianfranco Gaspari Giuseppe Rescigno Andrea Clemente Leonardo Cavallini	70.24	68.12	2:18.36
7		Francis Luiggi André Patey Gérard Monrazel Maurice Grether	70.65	68.19	2:18.84
8		Tony Nash Guy Renwick Robin Widdows Robin Dixon	70.45	68.39	2:18.84
9		Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Hans Baumann Peter Utzschneider	71.12	68.35	2:19.47
10		Boris Said, Jr. David Dunn Robert Crowley Phil Duprey	71.08	68.48	2:19.56
11		Bertrand Croset Claude Roussel Louis Courtois Henri Sirvain	71.11	68.61	2:19.72
12		René Stadler Hansruedi Müller Robert Zimmermann Ernst Schmidt	71.02	68.81	2:19.83
13		Manfred Hofer Hans Ritzl Fritz Dinkhauser Karl Pichler	70.90	69.12	2:20.02
14		John Blockey John Brown Tim Thorn Mike Freeman	71.52	68.67	2:20.19
15		Bill Hickey Howard Clifton Michael Luce Paul Savage	71.45	68.92	2:20.37
16		Rolf Höglund Hans Hallén Sven Martinsson Börje Hedblom	72.20	69.90	2:22.10
17		Purvis McDougall Bob Storey Michael Young Andrew Faulds	72.61	70.21	2:22.82
18		Víctor Palomo Maximiliano Jones José Clot Eugenio Baturone	72.86	70.32	2:23.18
19		Guillermo Rosal Néstor Alonso José Manuel Pérez Antonio Marín	72.90	71.42	2:24.32

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble. LA84 Foundation. Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. 1968. 1 February 2014.
2. Web site: Bobsleigh at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Four . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418013924/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1968/BOB/mens-four.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 9 April 2018 . Sports Reference.