West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics

West Germany at the Olympic Games
Flag of Germany IOC code   FRG
At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck
Competitors	71 (56 men, 15 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Wolfgang Zimmerer (bobsleigh)
Medals Rank: 5	Gold 2	Silver 5	Bronze 3	Total 10
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Winter Games
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1896–1936, 1952, 1992–)  Saar (1952)  United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Medalists

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 Erich Weißhaupt   Ignaz Berndaner   Erich Kühnhackl Anton Kehle   Rainer Phillip   Alois Schloder Rudolf Thanner   Lorenz Funk   Martin Hinterstocker Josef Volk   Wolfgang Boos   Franz Reindl Udo Kiessling   Ernst Köpf Stefan Metz   Ferenc Vozar Klaus Auhuber   Walter Koberle	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Bronze	Elisabeth Demleitner	Luge	Women's individual

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

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

Women

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

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

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

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

Athletes	Race
	Misses 2	Time	Rank
Heinrich Mehringer Gerd Winkler Josef Keck Claus Gehrke	4	2'04:11.86	4

²A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics

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

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

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

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

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Franz Betz Georg Kandlinger Walter Demel Georg Zipfel	2'12:38.96	9

Women

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

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Women

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

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Corinna Halke Eberhard Rausch	8	8	127.37	72	8

Ice hockey

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.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
West Germany	5–1	Switzerland

Medal round

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

• 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

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

• 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

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

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

(Men's) Doubles

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

Women

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

Nordic combined

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

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

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics

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

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

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

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	44.36	12
1000 m	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	1:29.54	5

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com