The four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo was held on 11 and 12 February, at Sapporo Teine.[1][2]

Results

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Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Switzerland (SUI-1) Jean Wicki
Hans Leutenegger
Werner Camichel
Edy Hubacher
70.71 54.64 55.51 55.85 4:43.07
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Italy (ITA-1) Nevio De Zordo
Adriano Frassinelli
Corrado Dal Fabbro
Gianni Bonichon
71.39 54.98 55.70 56.87 4:43.83
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  West Germany (FRG-1) Wolfgang Zimmerer
Stefan Gaisreiter
Walter Steinbauer
Peter Utzschneider
71.18 54.87 55.53 56.15 4:43.92
4  Switzerland (SUI-2) Hans Candrian
Erwin Juon
Gaudenz Beeli
Heinz Schenker
72.36 56.23 56.81 57.57 4:44.56
5  West Germany (FRG-2) Horst Floth
Donat Ertel
Walter Gillik
Pepi Bader
70.83 54.81 55.28 55.84 4:45.09
6  Austria (AUT-1) Herbert Gruber
Utz Chwalla
Josef Eder
Josef Oberhauser
71.20 55.12 55.63 56.58 4:45.77
7  Austria (AUT-2) Werner Delle Karth
Werner Moser
Walter Delle Karth
Fritz Sperling
71.58 55.51 56.18 56.68 4:46.66
8  Italy (ITA-2) Gianfranco Gaspari
Roberto Zandonella
Mario Armano
Luciano De Paolis
71.89 55.66 56.43 57.06 4:46.73
9  France Patrick Parisot
Yves Bonsang
Alain Roy
Gilles Morda
71.79 55.33 56.37 57.05 4:46.75
10  Romania Ion Panţuru
Ion Zangor
Dumitru Pascu
Dumitru Focşeneanu
72.07 55.80 57.08 57.17 4:47.12
11  Sweden Carl-Erik Eriksson
Tom Mentzer
Thomas Gustafsson
Jan Johansson
72.14 55.92 56.94 57.42 4:47.40
12  Japan (JPN-1) Susumu Esashika
Kazumi Abe
Rikio Sato
Yoshiyuki Ichihashi
71.51 55.62 56.05 56.61 4:47.92
13  Canada Hans Gehrig
David Richardson
Peter Blakeley
Andrew Faulds
72.61 56.08 56.96 57.59 4:48.06
14  United States (USA-2) Boris Said, Jr.
James Copley
Ken Morris
Phil Duprey
72.31 56.07 56.72 57.58 4:48.43
15  Great Britain (GBR-2) John Hammond
Jackie Price
Alan Jones
Peter Clifford
73.00 56.67 57.49 57.89 4:50.46
16  Great Britain (GBR-1) John Evelyn
Mike Freeman
Gomer Lloyd
Bill Sweet
72.83 56.48 56.87 57.65 4:51.03
 United States (USA-1) Jim Hickey Jr.
Jim Bridges
Howard Siler, Jr.
Thomas Becker
DQ 56.97 57.78 58.19 DQ
 Japan (JPN-2) Toshihisa Nagata
Hiroshi Inaba
Koichi Sugawara
Akihiko Suzuki
71.51 55.80 56.10 56.65 DQ

References

  1. ^ a b "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
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