West_Germany_at_the_1976_Winter_Olympics
West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Sporting event delegation
West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Quick Facts West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics, IOC code ...
| West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics | |
|---|---|
| IOC code | FRG |
| NOC | German Olympic Sports Confederation |
| Website | www |
| in Innsbruck | |
| Competitors | 71 (56 men, 15 women) in 10 sports |
| Flag bearer | Wolfgang Zimmerer (bobsleigh) |
| Medals Ranked 5th |
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| Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
| Other related appearances | |
 Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–) United Team of Germany (1956–1964) | |
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More information Medal, Name ...
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
 Gold | Rosi Mittermaier | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
| Gold | Rosi Mittermaier | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
 Silver | Rosi Mittermaier | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
| Silver | Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Silver | Josef Fendt | Luge | Men's individual |
| Silver | Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Silver | Urban Hettich | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
 Bronze | Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| Bronze | West Germany men's national ice hockey team
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Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| Bronze | Elisabeth Demleitner | Luge | Women's individual |
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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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- Women
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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Main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
| 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 |
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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
More information Athletes, Race ...
| Athletes | Race | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
| Heinrich Mehringer Gerd Winkler Josef Keck Claus Gehrke |
4 | 2'04:11.86 | 4 |
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2A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.
Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics
More information Sled, Athletes ...
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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More information Sled, Athletes ...
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
More information Athletes, Race ...
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Franz Betz Georg Kandlinger Walter Demel Georg Zipfel |
2'12:38.96 | 9 |
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- Women
More information Event, Athlete ...
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 5 km | Iris Schulze | 18:04.81 | 33 |
| Michaela Endler | 17:08.68 | 21 | |
| 10 km | Iris Schulze | 33:43.82 | 31 |
| Michaela Endler | 32:55.62 | 25 | |
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Main article: Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Women
More information Athlete, CF ...
| 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 |
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- Pairs
More information Athletes, SP ...
| Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corinna Halke Eberhard Rausch |
8 | 8 | 127.37 | 72 | 8 |
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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
More information Rank, Pld ...
| Rank | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Soviet Union |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 11 | 10 |
| 2 |  Czechoslovakia |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 6 |
| 3 |  West Germany |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 24 | 4 |
| 4 |  Finland |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 4 |
| 5 |  United States |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 21 | 4 |
| 6 |  Poland |
5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 37 | 2 |
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- 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
More information Rk, GP ...
| 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 |
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- 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
Main article: Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Athlete, Run 1 ...
| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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(Men's) Doubles
More information Athletes, Run 1 ...
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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- Women
More information Athlete, Run 1 ...
| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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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
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 74.5 | 75.0 | 198.9 | 11 | 48:01.55 | 220.00 | 1 | 418.90 | | |
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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
| Sepp Schwinghammer | Normal hill | 75.5 | 106.1 | 76.5 | 109.2 | 215.3 | 23 |
| Alfred Grosche | 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 |
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Main article: Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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- Women
More information Event, Athlete ...
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 500 m | Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug | 44.36 | 12 |
| 1000 m | Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug | 1:29.54 | 5 |
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