West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	FRG
Nocname:	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1976
Flagcaption:	Flag of Germany
Website:
Location:	Innsbruck
Competitors:	71 (56 men, 15 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Wolfgang Zimmerer (bobsleigh)
Rank:	5
Gold:	2
Silver:	5
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 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Women's downhill
			Women's slalom
			Women's giant slalom
			Two-man
			Men's individual
			Men's doubles
			Men's individual
			Four-man
	West Germany men's national ice hockey team		Men's competition
			Women's individual

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Wolfgang Junginger	Downhill					1:50.48	29
Michael Veith						1:49.02	22
Sepp Ferstl						1:48.41	17
Peter Fischer						1:48.18	15
Christian Neureuther	Giant Slalom	1:52.29	37	1:51.73	29	3:44.02	30
Sepp Ferstl		1:49.98	30	1:51.54	28	3:41.52	28
Wolfgang Junginger		1:49.79	29	1:46.23	14	3:36.02	19
Albert Burger		1:47.32	12	1:45.36	11	3:32.68	10
Sepp Ferstl	Slalom	1:06.32	29	1:08.02	20	2:14.34	20
Albert Burger		1:03.38	17	1:06.93	16	2:10.31	15
Christian Neureuther		1:01.70	8	1:04.86	5	2:06.56	5
Wolfgang Junginger		1:00.95	3	1:06.13	11	2:07.08	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Maria Epple	Downhill					1:51.41	23
Evi Mittermaier						1:49.23	13
Irene Epple						1:48.91	10
Rosi Mittermaier						1:46.16
Maria Epple	Giant Slalom					1:33.02	24
Irene Epple						1:31.46	15
Evi Mittermaier						1:30.64	8
Rosi Mittermaier						1:29.25
Monika Berwein	Slalom	49.17	14	DNF	-	DNF	-
Christa Zechmeister		48.20	8	45.52	6	1:33.72	7
Rosi Mittermaier		46.77	2	43.77	1	1:30.54
Pamela Behr		46.88	1	45.63	7	1:32.31	5

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Alois Kanamüller	1'17:25.26	8	1'25:25.26	34
	Josef Niedermeier	1'18:33.63	5	1'23:33.63	26
	Heinrich Mehringer	1'16:49.15	2	1'18:49.15	11

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 1976 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann	Two-man	56.09	2	56.31	3	56.26	2	56.33	2	3:44.99
FRG-2	Georg Heibl Fritz Ohlwärter	Two-man	56.36	4	56.43	4	56.59	5	56.75	6	3:46.13	5

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann	Four-man	54.82	3	54.87	3	55.53	3	56.15	3	3:41.37
FRG-2	Georg Heibl Hans Morant Siegfried Radandt Fritz Ohlwärter	Four-man	54.92	4	54.98	4	55.70	5	56.87	8	3:42.47	5

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Hans Speicher	48:28.90	45
	Franz Betz	47:39.15	38
	Georg Kandlinger	47:20.13	31
	Georg Zipfel	45:38.10	7
30 km	Walter Demel	1'37:44.17	40
	Hans Speicher	1'36:52.45	36
	Franz Betz	1'34:55.54	18
	Georg Zipfel	1'34:04.71	14
50 km	Georg Kandlinger	DNF	-
	Franz Betz	DNF	-
	Walter Demel	2'46:55.95	25
	Georg Zipfel	2'46:20.30	23

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Iris Schulze	18:04.81	33
5 km	Michaela Endler	17:08.68	21
10 km	Iris Schulze	33:43.82	31
10 km	Michaela Endler	32:55.62	25

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Dagmar Lurz	7	10	11	178.04	92	10
Isabel De Navarre	1	11	12	182.42	59	5

Pairs

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

Medal round

Rank	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	5	5	0	40	11	10
2	5	3	2	17	10	6
3	5	2	3	21	24	4
4	5	2	3	19	18	4
5	5	2	3	15	21	4
6	5	1	4	9	37	2

West Germany 7-4 Poland
Finland 5-3 West Germany
USSR 7-3 West Germany
Czechoslovakia 7-4 West Germany
West Germany 4-1 USA

Leading scorers

Rk		GP	G	A	Pts
2nd	Erich Kuhnhackl	5	5	5	10
6th	Ernst Kopf	5	3	5	8
10th	Lorenz Funk	5	2	5	7

Team roster

Erich Weißhaupt

Anton Kehle

Rudolf Thanner

Josef Volk

Udo Kiessling

Stefan Metz

Klaus Auhuber

Ignaz Berndaner

Rainer Phillip

Lorenz Funk

Wolfgang Boos

Ernst Köpf, Sr.

Ferenc Vozar

Walter Koberle

Erich Kühnhackl

Alois Schloder

Martin Hinterstocker

Franz Reindl
Head coach: Xaver Unsinn

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Hölzlwimmer	52.766	4	n/a	?	n/a	?	n/a	?	DNF	-
Anton Winkler	52.755	3	52.194	5	52.219	7	52.352	6	3:29.520	6
Josef Fendt	52.694	2	51.933	1	51.749	3	51.820	2	3:28.196

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	42.792	2	43.097	4	1:25.889
Stefan Hölzlwimmer Rudi Größwang	43.205	5	43.033	3	1:26.238	4

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elisabeth Demleitner	43.138	7	42.535	1	42.388	2	42.995	7	2:51.056
Monika Scheftschik	42.863	2	42.732	4	42.981	9	42.964	5	2:51.540	7

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1976 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
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Günther Abel	Individual	74.0	74.0	196.8	14	50:29.77	197.77	14	394.57	14
Urban Hettich	Individual	74.5	75.0	198.9	11	48:01.55	220.00	1	418.90

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Sepp Schwinghammer	Normal hill	75.5	106.1	76.5	109.2	215.3	23
Alfred Grosche	Normal hill	80.0	115.3	80.5	116.6	231.9	10
Alfred Grosche	Large hill	89.5	100.3	84.5	92.8	193.1	16

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Horst Freese	DNF	-
1000 m	Horst Freese	1:21.48	9
1500 m	Herbert Schwarz	2:03.76	12
5000 m	Herbert Schwarz	7:52.26	15

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	44.36	12
1000 m	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	1:29.54	5

Rank	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	5	5	0	40	11	10
2	5	3	2	17	10	6
3	5	2	3	21	24	4
4	5	2	3	19	18	4
5	5	2	3	15	21	4
6	5	1	4	9	37	2

Rank	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	5	5	0	40	11	10
2	5	3	2	17	10	6
3	5	2	3	21	24	4
4	5	2	3	19	18	4
5	5	2	3	15	21	4
6	5	1	4	9	37	2