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