Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Two-man

Two-man at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates	6–7 February
Competitors	48 from 13 nations
Winning time	3:44.42
Medalists
Meinhard Nehmer, Bernhard Germeshausen  East Germany Wolfgang Zimmerer, Manfred Schumann  West Germany Erich Schärer, Sepp Benz  Switzerland

The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held on 6 and 7 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.^[1][2]

Results

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Rank	Country	Athletes	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total
	East Germany (GDR-2)	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen	56.24	56.04	55.87	56.27	3:44.42
	West Germany (FRG-1)	Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann	56.09	56.31	56.26	56.33	3:44.99
	Switzerland (SUI-1)	Erich Schärer Sepp Benz	56.43	56.53	56.33	56.41	3:45.70
4	Austria (AUT-2)	Fritz Sperling Andreas Schwab	56.06	56.19	56.73	56.76	3:45.74
5	West Germany (FRG-2)	Georg Heibl Fritz Ohlwärter	56.36	56.43	56.59	56.75	3:46.13
6	Austria (AUT-1)	Dieter Delle Karth Franz Köfel	56.52	56.76	56.47	56.62	3:46.37
7	East Germany (GDR-1)	Horst Schönau Raimund Bethge	56.89	56.79	56.74	56.55	3:46.97
8	Italy (ITA-1)	Giorgio Alverà Franco Perruquet	56.62	56.71	56.84	57.13	3:47.30
9	Sweden	Carl-Erik Eriksson Kenth Rönn	57.09	57.20	57.16	56.96	3:48.41
10	Switzerland (SUI-2)	Fritz Lüdi Thomas Hagen	56.95	57.32	57.35	57.48	3:49.10
11	Romania (ROU-1)	Ion Panţuru Gheorghe Lixandru	57.15	57.43	57.85	57.66	3:50.09
12	Romania (ROU-2)	Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan Costel Ionescu	57.95	57.66	57.58	57.34	3:50.53
13	France (FRA-2)	Alain Roy Serge Hissung	57.58	57.43	57.58	57.95	3:50.54
14	United States (USA-1)	Jimmy Morgan Thomas Becker	57.68	57.63	57.66	57.79	3:50.76
15	France (FRA-1)	Gérard Christaud-Pipola Michel Lemarchand	57.43	57.73	57.78	58.08	3:51.02
16	Italy (ITA-2)	Nevio De Zordo Ezio Fiori	57.71	57.58	57.88	57.95	3:51.12
17	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Paulát Václav Sůva	57.78	57.74	57.97	58.22	3:51.71
18	Canada (CAN-1)	Colin Nelson Jim Lavalley	57.56	57.92	58.13	58.39	3:52.00
19	United States (USA-2)	Brent Rushlaw John Proctor	58.07	58.27	57.79	57.89	3:52.02
20	Great Britain (GBR-1)	Jackie Price Gomer Lloyd	58.05	58.13	57.90	58.02	3:52.10
21	Great Britain (GBR-2)	Mark Agar Michael Sweet	58.40	58.33	57.90	58.08	3:52.71
22	Japan (JPN-2)	Rikio Sato Kimihiro Shinada	58.52	58.30	58.55	58.35	3:53.72
23	Canada (CAN-2)	Joey Kilburn Brian Vachon	58.61	58.74	58.22	58.72	3:54.29
24	Japan (JPN-1)	Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe	58.69	59.07	59.12	59.18	3:56.06

References

1. "Final Report – XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
2. "Bobsleigh at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Two". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2018.