Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Four-man at the X Olympic Winter Games
Venue	L'Alpe d'Huez
Dates	February 16
Competitors	76 from 11 nations
Winning time	2:17.39
Medalists
Italy Eugenio Monti, Luciano De Paolis, Roberto Zandonella, Mario Armano   Austria Erwin Thaler, Reinhold Durnthaler, Herbert Gruber, Josef Eder   Switzerland Jean Wicki, Hans Candrian, Willi Hofmann, Walter Graf

Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Two		men
Four		men

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]

Results

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

References

1. "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved February 1, 2014.