Bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Four-man
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| Venue | Bob und Rodelbahn Igls | |||||||||
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| Dates | 5–7 February 1964 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 73 from 11 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 4:14.46 | |||||||||
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Four-man bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 5 & 7 February at Bob und Rodelbahn Igls, Innsbruck, Austria. This event was last run at the 1956 Winter Olympics as bobsleigh was not part of the 1960 games.[1]
The winning athletes were those who posted the shortest total time over four separate runs. Canada were surprise gold medal winners, having first entered a bobsleigh team in a competitive event only 8 years previous. Favourites for the event were the Italians who finished in 3rd & 4th. Second place Austria never had an individual run which was quicker than third best, but yet their consistency earnt them the silver medal.[2]
Results
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | Behind |
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 | .svg.png){kind=small} Canada (CAN-1) | Peter Kirby Doug Anakin John Emery Vic Emery | 1:02.99 | 1:03.82 | 1:03.64 | 1:04.01 | 4:14.46 | — |
 |  Austria (AUT-1) | Erwin Thaler Adolf Koxeder Josef Nairz Reinhold Durnthaler | 1:03.67 | 1:03.94 | 1:03.74 | 1:04.13 | 4:15.48 | +1.02 |
 |  Italy (ITA-2) | Eugenio Monti Sergio Siorpaes Benito Rigoni Gildo Siorpaes | 1:03.43 | 1:04.07 | 1:04.02 | 1:04.08 | 4:15.60 | +1.14 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA-1) | Sergio Zardini Sergio Mocellini Ferruccio Dalla Torre Romano Bonagura | 1:03.95 | 1:04.10 | 1:03.59 | 1:04.25 | 4:15.89 | +1.43 |
| 5 |  Germany (EUA-1) | Franz Schelle Ludwig Siebert Josef Sterff Otto Göbl | 1:04.21 | 1:03.50 | 1:04.15 | 1:04.33 | 4:16.19 | +1.73 |
| 6 |  United States (USA-1) | Bill Hickey Reg Benham Bill Dundon Chuck Pandolph | 1:03.90 | 1:04.11 | 1:04.43 | 1:04.79 | 4:17.23 | +2.77 |
| 7 | Austria (AUT-2) | Paul Aste Herbert Gruber Andreas Arnold Hans Stoll | 1:04.65 | 1:04.40 | 1:04.43 | 1:04.25 | 4:17.13 | +2.67 |
| 8 |  Switzerland (SUI-2) | Herbert Kiesel Bernhard Wild Hansruedi Beugger Oskar Lory | 1:04.33 | 1:04.54 | 1:04.65 | 1:04.60 | 4:18.12 | +3.66 |
| 9 | Germany (EUA-2) | Franz Wörmann Anton Wackerle Rupert Grasegger Hubert Braun | 1:04.47 | 1:04.42 | 1:05.25 | 1:04.54 | 4:18.68 | +4.22 |
| 10 | Switzerland (SUI-1) | Hans Zoller Hans Kleinpeter Fritz Lüdi Robert Zimmermann | 1:04.83 | 1:04.52 | 1:04.97 | 1:04.73 | 4:19.05 | +4.59 |
| 11 |  Sweden (SWE-1) | Kjell Holmström Walter Aronson Kjell Lutteman Carl-Erik Eriksson | 1:04.26 | 1:04.04 | 1:04.56 | 1:06.38 | 4:19.24 | +4.78 |
| 12 |  Great Britain (GBR-1) | Tony Nash Guy Renwick David Lewis Robin Dixon | 1:04.56 | 1:05.07 | 1:04.64 | 1:05.13 | 4:19.40 | +4.94 |
| 13 | Great Britain (GBR-2) | Bill McCowen Robin Widdows Robin Seel Andrew Hedges | 1:04.49 | 1:04.68 | 1:05.53 | 1:04.73 | 4:19.43 | +4.97 |
| 14 | Canada (CAN-2) | Monty Gordon Chris Ondaatje David Hobart Gordon Currie | 1:04.63 | 1:04.43 | 1:05.06 | 1:05.66 | 4:19.78 | +5.32 |
| 15 | .svg.png){kind=small} Romania (ROU-1) | Ion Panţuru Gheorghe Maftei Constantin Cotacu Hariton Paşovschi | 1:04.70 | 1:04.89 | 1:05.05 | 1:05.16 | 4:19.80 | +5.34 |
| 16 |  Argentina (ARG-1) | Héctor Tomasi Carlos Alberto Tomasi Hernán Agote Fernando Rodríguez | 1:05.74 | 1:06.08 | 1:07.07 | 1:06.62 | 4:25.51 | +11.05 |
| 17 | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium (BEL-1) | Jean de Crawhez Thierry De Borchgrave Charly Bouvy Camille Liénard Jean-Marie Buisset | 1:07.46 | 1:05.56 | 1:06.51 | 1:06.31 | 4:25.84 | +11.38 |
| DNF | United States (USA-2) | Larry McKillip Bob Rogers Mike Baumgartner Jim Lamy | 1:03.92 | 1:04.22 |
External links
- Todor - 1964 Four-man Bob
References
- ↑ "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
- ↑ "Bobsleigh at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
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