West Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	FRG
Nocname:	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1968
Flagcaption:	Flag of Germany superimposed with the Olympic rings
Website:
Location:	Grenoble, France
Competitors:	87 (67 men, 20 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Hans Plenk (luge)
Rank:	8
Gold:	2
Silver:	2
Bronze:	3
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1968
App End Year:	1988
See also:	(1896–1936, 1952, 1992–) (1952) (1956–1964)

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. West German athletes had competed together with East German athletes as the United Team of Germany in the previous three Winter Olympic Games, but both nations sent independent teams starting in 1968.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's individual
			Men's 500m
			Two-man
			Women's individual
			Pairs
			Men's doubles
			Women's individual

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dieter Fersch	Downhill					2:03.41	19
Franz Vogler						2:02.94	15
Luggi Leitner						2:02.54	12
Gerhard Prinzing						2:02.10	7
Gerhard Prinzing	Giant Slalom	DSQ	-	-	-	DSQ	-
Sepp Heckelmiller		1:48.25	26	1:50.70	20	3:38.95	24
Luggi Leitner		1:47.64	24	1:51.21	27	3:38.85	23
Willi Lesch		1:47.48	21	1:51.35	30	3:38.83	22

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Willi Lesch	52.07	2 QF	-	-	51.28	16	DSQ	-	DSQ	-
Max Rieger	54.20	3	54.52	1 QF	53.81	35	51.57	12	1:45.38	20
Alfred Hagn	54.04	3	55.43	1 QF	52.95	30	51.70	13	1:44.65	16
Luggi Leitner	55.34	3	53.47	1 QF	50.89	14	52.61	19	1:43.50	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rosi Mittermaier	Downhill					1:47.73	25
Christine Laprell						1:47.62	24
Margret Hafen						1:45.33	19
Burgl Färbinger						1:44.29	14
Rosi Mittermaier	Giant Slalom					1:58.75	20
Margret Hafen						1:58.47	18
Christine Laprell						1:58.12	15
Burgl Färbinger						1:57.20	10
Christl Hintermaier	Slalom	44.67	18	49.95	18	1:34.62	16
Christine Laprell		42.94	10	48.31	11	1:31.25	10
Rosi Mittermaier		42.90	9	DSQ	-	DSQ	-
Burgl Färbinger		42.70	8	46.20	6	1:28.90	6

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^1	Rank
20 km	Herbert Hindelang	1'21:48.5	10	1'31:48.5	41
	Xaver Kraus	1'18:40.2	12	1'30:40.2	39
	Gerhard Gehring	1'20:26.8	8	1'28:26.8	32
	Theo Merkel	1'18:10.5	4	1'22:10.5	12

¹One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

²A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Horst Floth Pepi Bader	Two-man	1:10.76	5	1:10.43	1	1:10.20	1	1:10.15	2	4:41.54
FRG-2	Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider	Two-man	1:12.36	15	1:11.94	8	1:10.77	4	1:11.33	4	4:46.40	7

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Horst Floth Willi Schäfer Frank Lange Pepi Bader	Four-man	1:10.49	5	1:07.84	5	2:18.33	5
FRG-2	Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Hans Baumann Peter Utzschneider	Four-man	1:11.12	13	1:08.35	8	2:19.47	9

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Klaus Ganter	52:30.0	39
	Helmut Gerlach	52:21.8	38
	Karl Buhl	50:38.1	20
	Walter Demel	49:38.4	12
30 km	Karlheinz Scherzinger	1'47:08.7	48
	Herbert Steinbeißer	1'46:31.2	46
	Karl Buhl	1'42:52.2	31
	Walter Demel	1'37:49.2	9
50 km	Klaus Ganter	DNF	-
	Siegfried Weiß	2'46:53.4	43
	Helmut Gerlach	2'41:55.8	33
	Walter Demel	2'31:14.4	9

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Barbara Barthel	18:20.0	29
	Michaela Endler	17:59.2	25
	Monika Mrklas	17:32.5	17
10 km	Barbara Barthel	DNF	-
	Michaela Endler	41:01.1	26
	Monika Mrklas	39:58.2	20

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Jürgen Eberwein	25	22	1530.3	219	24
Peter Krick	7	16	1723.2	104	12

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Eileen Zillmer	12	23	1600.3	171	19
Petra Ruhrmann	16	18	1611.2	161	17
Monika Feldmann	11	13	1687.1	99	10

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marianne Streifler Herbert Wiesinger	12	11	282.7	100	11
Gudrun Hauss Walter Häfner	7	9	293.6	67	8
Margot Glockshuber Wolfgang Danne	3	3	304.4	30

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

First round

West Germany - Romania 7:0 (1:0, 3:0, 3:0)
Goalscorers: Gustav Hanig 2, Alois Schloder, Ernst Kopf, Otto Schneitberger, Horst Meindl, Heinz Weisenbach.

Final Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1		7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2		7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3		7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4		7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5		7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6		7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7		7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8		7	0	7	0	13	48	0

Canada – West Germany 6:1 (0:0, 4:1, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Bourbonnais 2, Cadieux, Dineen, Mott, Huck – Kopf.
Referees: Seglin, Snětkov (URS)

Czechoslovakia – West Germany 5:1 (1:0, 2:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hrbatý, Golonka, Havel, Hejma, Ševčík – Lax.
Referees: Kubinec, McEvoy (CAN)

Sweden – West Germany 5:4 (4:3, 0:0, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Svedberg, Lundström, Nordlander, Olsson, Öberg – Kuhn, Hanig, Reif, Kopf.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)

USSR – West Germany 9:1 (4:1, 4:0, 1:0)
Goalscorers: Populanov 2, Alexandrov 2, Ionov, Staršinov, Majorov, Mojsejev, Firsov – Funk.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Valentin (AUT)

USA – West Germany 8:1 (2:1, 4:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Volmar 2, Ross, Morrison, Nanne, Pleau, Cunnoff, P. Hurley – Funk.
Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Seglin (URS)

Finland– West Germany 4:1 (2:1, 1:0, 1:0)
Goalscorers: Leimu 2, Ketola, J. Peltonen – Schloder.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)

East Germany – West Germany 2:4 (0:1, 1:2, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Hiller, Fuchs – Funk, Waitl, Hanig, Lax.
Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

Contestants

7. WEST GERMANY
Goaltenders: Josef Schramm, Günther Knauss.
Defence: Leonhard Eaitl, Johannes Schichtl, Rudolf Thanner, Otto Schneitberger, Josef Völk, Heinz Bader.
Forwards: Josef Reif, Ernst Köpf, Bernd Kuhn, Lorenz Funk, Alois Schloder, Gustav Hanig, Horst Meindl, Heinz Weisenbach, Manfred Gmeiner, Peter Lax.
Coach: Ed Riegle.

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fritz Nachmann	58.54	16	59.05	17	58.82	16	2:56.41	17
Wolfgang Winkler	58.08	10	58.86	14	58.41	10	2:55.35	11
Leonhard Nagenrauft	57.87	7	58.45	9	58.39	9	2:54.71	9
Hans Plenk	57.30	2	58.37	7	58.00	6	2:53.67	6

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann	48.58	3	48.71	3	1:37.29
Hans Plenk Bernhard Aschauer	48.70	4	48.91	5	1:37.61	4

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ute Gähler	49.78	10	49.93	4	50.71	7	2:30.42	8
Angelika Dünhaupt	49.34	4	49.88	3	50.34	2	2:29.56
Christa Schmuck	49.15	2	49.84	2	50.38	3	2:29.37

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Günther Naumann	Individual	67.5	68.5	190.0	28	49:48.5	220.89	5	410.89	14
Hans Rudhardt		71.0	72.5	195.4	22	53:15.3	179.34	28	374.74	29
Franz Keller		73.0	77.5	240.1	1	50:45.2	208.94	13	449.04
Alfred Winkler		71.5	71.0	192.8	25	52:26.0	188.79	24	381.59	25

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Heini Ihle	Normal hill	75.5	102.6	70.0	94.8	197.4	22
Henrik Ohlmeyer		75.0	104.8	67.5	88.8	193.6	28
Günther Göllner		77.0	109.5	70.5	97.6	207.1	10
Heini Ihle	Large hill	82.0	73.7	84.5	82.7	156.4	46
Henrik Ohlmeyer		90.5	92.6	86.0	85.3	177.9	33
Franz Keller		90.5	93.6	84.0	80.5	174.1	36
Günther Göllner		93.0	96.6	85.0	86.9	183.5	29

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Günter Traub	42.5	31
	Gerd Zimmermann	41.5	19
	Herbert Höfl	41.0	11
	Erhard Keller	40.3
1500 m	Jürgen Traub	2:10.2	22
	Günter Traub	2:07.7	15
5000 m	Jürgen Traub	7:55.3	20
	Günter Traub	7:40.4	13
10,000 m	Jürgen Traub	16:33.8	18
	Günter Traub	16:01.3	11

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Hildegard Sellhuber	48.4	21
	Evi Sappl	47.4	12
1000 m	Evi Sappl	1:37.4	17
	Hildegard Sellhuber	1:37.2	16
1500 m	Paula Dufter	2:45.2	30
	Hildegard Sellhuber	2:27.5	9
3000 m	Paula Dufter	5:27.0	19

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com