Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's singles explained

Event:Men's singles
Games:1968 Winter
Venue:Villard-de-Lans
Dates:11–13 February
Competitors:50
Nations:14
Win Value:2:52.48
Gold:Manfred Schmid
Goldnoc:AUT
Silver:Thomas Köhler
Silvernoc:GDR
Bronze:Klaus-Michael Bonsack
Bronzenoc:GDR
Prev:1964
Next:1972

The men's singles luge competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held from 11 to 13 February, at Villard-de-Lans. Originally, four runs were scheduled, but poor weather meant that the competition was delayed, and the fourth run was eventually cancelled.[1]

Results

Rank Athlete Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
57.16 57.73 57.59 2:52.48
57.68 57.47 57.51 2:52.66
57.90 57.63 57.80 2:53.33
4 57.55 58.35 57.61 2:53.51
5 57.78 58.06 57.73 2:53.57
6 57.30 58.37 58.00 2:53.67
7 57.49 58.04 58.57 2:54.10
8 58.16 58.38 58.08 2:54.62
9 57.87 58.45 58.39 2:54.71
10 57.94 58.63 58.53 2:55.10
11 58.08 58.86 58.41 2:55.35
12 58.09 58.59 58.88 2:55.56
13 59.27 58.46 58.18 2:55.91
14 58.42 59.03 58.60 2:56.05
15 58.43 58.56 59.07 2:56.06
16 58.22 59.51 58.45 2:56.18
17 58.54 59.05 58.82 2:56.41
18 58.80 59.16 58.89 2:56.85
19 59.04 59.28 58.67 2:56.99
20 59.07 59.10 58.93 2:57.10
21 58.84 59.26 59.04 2:57.14
22 59.03 59.01 59.19 2:57.23
23 59.00 59.67 59.24 2:57.91
24 58.93 59.54 59.91 2:58.38
25 59.12 59.36 59.98 2:58.46
26 59.73 59.45 59.46 2:58.64
27 59.20 59.59 00.24 2:59.03
28 00.34 59.94 59.72 3:00.00
29 59.75 00.41 00.21 3:00.37
30 00.00 00.46 00.16 3:00.62
31 00.69 00.30 00.40 3:01.39
32 00.73 01.44 00.63 3:02.80
33 00.10 00.92 01.99 3:03.01
34 Per-Ulf Helander 00.25 01.67 01.20 3:03.12
35 Jean-Pierre De Petro 01.03 01.24 01.26 3:03.53
36 00.92 01.27 01.69 3:03.88
37 01.13 01.90 01.53 3:04.56
38 01.98 02.99 01.45 3:06.42
39 02.83 02.81 01.40 3:07.04
40 02.99 03.12 01.83 3:07.94
41 03.52 04.54 03.59 3:11.65
42 Jesús Gatell 03.15 04.38 04.25 3:11.78
43 Jorge Monjo 05.18 03.35 05.12 3:13.65
44 04.01 05.54 04.42 3:13.97
45 14.43 04.89 05.82 3:25.14
46 Robin Partch 30.36 59.78 59.53 3:29.67
47 D'Arcy Coulson 02.69 31.24 02.19 3:36.12
- Julius Schädler DNF - - -
- Peter Kretauer DQ - - -
- DQ - - -

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Luge at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Singles . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022451/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1968/LUG/mens-singles.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 2 April 2020 . Sports Reference.