Two-man bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 31 January and 1 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][2]
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| Venue | Bob und Rodelbahn Igls | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 31 January – 1 February 1964 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 42 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 4:21.90 | ||||||||||||
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The winning athletes were those who posted the shortest total time over four separate runs. British duo Anthony Nash
Robin Thomas Dixon took gold, the first medal of any kind on this event for Great Britain. Taking silver and bronze were the two Italian crews.[3]
Results
edit| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | Behind |
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 Great Britain (GBR-1) |
Anthony Nash Robin Thomas Dixon |
1:05.53 | 1:05.10 | 1:05.39 | 1:05.88 | 4:21.90 | — |
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 Italy (ITA-2) |
Sergio Zardini Romano Bonagura |
1:05.63 | 1:05.13 | 1:05.21 | 1:06.05 | 4:22.02 | +0.12 |
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Italy (ITA-1) |
Eugenio Monti Sergio Siorpaes |
1:05.94 | 1:04.90 | 1:05.41 | 1:06.38 | 4:22.63 | +0.73 |
| 4 |  Canada (CAN-2) |
Vic Emery Peter Kirby |
1:05.15 | 1:05.93 | 1:05.96 | 1:06.45 | 4:23.49 | +1.59 |
| 5 |  United States (USA-1) |
Larry McKillip Jim Lamy |
1:06.17 | 1:06.34 | 1:05.84 | 1:06.25 | 4:24.60 | +2.70 |
| 6 |  United Team of Germany (EUA-1) |
Franz Wörmann Hubert Braun |
1:06.87 | 1:06.42 | 1:05.17 | 1:06.24 | 4:24.70 | +2.80 |
| 7 | United States (USA-2) |
Charlie McDonald Chuck Pandolph |
1:05.97 | 1:05.85 | 1:06.16 | 1:07.02 | 4:25.00 | +3.10 |
| 8 |  Austria (AUT-1) |
Erwin Thaler Josef Nairz |
1:05.72 | 1:06.98 | 1:06.48 | 1:06.33 | 4:25.51 | +3.61 |
| 9 | Austria (AUT-2) |
Franz Isser Reinhold Durnthaler |
1:06.94 | 1:06.71 | 1:07.40 | 1:07.04 | 4:28.09 | +6.19 |
| 10 |  Switzerland (SUI-1) |
Hans Zoller Robert Zimmermann |
1:06.97 | 1:06.20 | 1:07.60 | 1:07.38 | 4:28.15 | +6.25 |
| 11 | Canada (CAN-1) |
John Emery Gordon Currie |
1:07.85 | 1:07.64 | 1:06.75 | 1:06.63 | 4:28.87 | +6.97 |
| 12 |  Sweden (SWE-1) |
Kjell Lutteman Heino Freyberg |
1:06.81 | 1:06.99 | 1:07.93 | 1:07.20 | 4:28.93 | +7.03 |
| 13 |  Romania (ROU-1) |
Ion Panţuru Hariton Paşovschi |
1:07.74 | 1:06.97 | 1:06.92 | 1:07.47 | 4:29.10 | +7.20 |
| 14 | United Team of Germany (EUA-2) |
Hans Maurer Rupert Grasegger |
1:06.72 | 1:07.76 | 1:06.92 | 1:08.37 | 4:29.77 | +7.87 |
| 15 | Romania (ROU-2) |
Alexandru Oancea Constantin Cotacu |
1:07.31 | 1:08.93 | 1:06.75 | 1:07.26 | 4:30.25 | +8.35 |
| 16 | Great Britain (GBR-2) |
Bill McCowen Andrew Hedges |
1:07.47 | 1:07.73 | 1:06.52 | 1:08.95 | 4:30.67 | +8.77 |
| 17 | Switzerland (SUI-2) |
Herbert Kiesel Oskar Lory |
1:07.33 | 1:07.70 | 1:07.92 | 1:08.25 | 4:31.20 | +9.30 |
| 18 |  Argentina (ARG-1) |
Héctor Tomasi Fernando Rodríguez |
1:07.59 | 1:09.20 | 1:07.36 | 1:07.72 | 4:31.87 | +9.97 |
| 19 | Argentina (ARG-2) |
Roberto José Bordeu Hernán Agote |
1:10.15 | 1:08.45 | 1:11.33 | 1:10.26 | 4:40.19 | +18.29 |
| DNF |  Belgium (BEL-1) |
Jean-Marie Buisset Claude Englebert |
1:09.63 | 1:10.01 | ||||
| DNF | Sweden (SWE-2) |
Jan-Erik Åkerström Carl-Erik Eriksson |
1:08.01 | 1:11.81 |
References
edit- ^ "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 30 April 2014.
- ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Two". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ^ "Bobsleigh Doubles Olympic Games 1964 Innsbruck (AUT) – Saturday 01.02". Todor. Retrieved 29 April 2014.