West Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. West German athletes had competed together with East German athletes as the United Team of Germany in the previous three Winter Olympic Games, but both nations sent independent teams starting in 1968.

West Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Flag of Germany superimposed with the Olympic rings
IOC code	FRG
NOC	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website	www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Grenoble, France 6 February 1968 (1968-02-06) – 18 February 1968 (1968-02-18)
Competitors	87 (67 men, 20 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Hans Plenk (luge)
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 3 Total 7
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)  United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Franz Keller	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Gold	Erhard Keller	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Silver	Horst Floth Pepi Bader	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Silver	Christa Schmuck	Luge	Women's individual
Bronze	Margot Glockshuber Wolfgang Danne	Figure skating	Pairs
Bronze	Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann	Luge	Men's doubles
Bronze	Angelika Dünhaupt	Luge	Women's individual

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dieter Fersch	Downhill					2:03.41	19
Franz Vogler						2:02.94	15
Luggi Leitner						2:02.54	12
Gerhard Prinzing						2:02.10	7
Gerhard Prinzing	Giant Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Sepp Heckelmiller		1:48.25	26	1:50.70	20	3:38.95	24
Luggi Leitner		1:47.64	24	1:51.21	27	3:38.85	23
Willi Lesch		1:47.48	21	1:51.35	30	3:38.83	22

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Willi Lesch	52.07	2 QF	–	–	51.28	16	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Max Rieger	54.20	3	54.52	1 QF	53.81	35	51.57	12	1:45.38	20
Alfred Hagn	54.04	3	55.43	1 QF	52.95	30	51.70	13	1:44.65	16
Luggi Leitner	55.34	3	53.47	1 QF	50.89	14	52.61	19	1:43.50	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rosi Mittermaier	Downhill					1:47.73	25
Christine Laprell						1:47.62	24
Margret Hafen						1:45.33	19
Burgl Färbinger						1:44.29	14
Rosi Mittermaier	Giant Slalom					1:58.75	20
Margret Hafen						1:58.47	18
Christine Laprell						1:58.12	15
Burgl Färbinger						1:57.20	10
Christl Hintermaier	Slalom	44.67	18	49.95	18	1:34.62	16
Christine Laprell		42.94	10	48.31	11	1:31.25	10
Rosi Mittermaier		42.90	9	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Burgl Färbinger		42.70	8	46.20	6	1:28.90	6

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Herbert Hindelang	1'21:48.5	10	1'31:48.5	41
	Xaver Kraus	1'18:40.2	12	1'30:40.2	39
	Gerhard Gehring	1'20:26.8	8	1'28:26.8	32
	Theo Merkel	1'18:10.5	4	1'22:10.5	12

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
Herbert Hindelang Theo Merkel Xaver Kraus Gerhard Gehring	6	2'29:56.6	9

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

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1968 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	Horst Floth Pepi Bader	Two-man	1:10.76	5	1:10.43	1	1:10.20	1	1:10.15	2	4:41.54
FRG-2	Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider	Two-man	1:12.36	15	1:11.94	8	1:10.77	4	1:11.33	4	4:46.40	7

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Horst Floth Willi Schäfer Frank Lange Pepi Bader	Four-man	1:10.49	5	1:07.84	5	2:18.33	5
FRG-2	Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Hans Baumann Peter Utzschneider	Four-man	1:11.12	13	1:08.35	8	2:19.47	9

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Klaus Ganter	52:30.0	39
	Helmut Gerlach	52:21.8	38
	Karl Buhl	50:38.1	20
	Walter Demel	49:38.4	12
30 km	Karlheinz Scherzinger	1'47:08.7	48
	Herbert Steinbeißer	1'46:31.2	46
	Karl Buhl	1'42:52.2	31
	Walter Demel	1'37:49.2	9
50 km	Klaus Ganter	DNF	–
	Siegfried Weiß	2'46:53.4	43
	Helmut Gerlach	2'41:55.8	33
	Walter Demel	2'31:14.4	9

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Helmut Gerlach Walter Demel Herbert Steinbeißer Karl Buhl	2'19:37.6	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Barbara Barthel	18:20.0	29
	Michaela Endler	17:59.2	25
	Monika Mrklas	17:32.5	17
10 km	Barbara Barthel	DNF	–
	Michaela Endler	41:01.1	26
	Monika Mrklas	39:58.2	20

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Michaela Endler Barbara Barthel Monika Mrklas	1'01:49.3	7

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Jürgen Eberwein	25	22	1530.3	219	24
Peter Krick	7	16	1723.2	104	12

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Eileen Zillmer	12	23	1600.3	171	19
Petra Ruhrmann	16	18	1611.2	161	17
Monika Feldmann	11	13	1687.1	99	10

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marianne Streifler Herbert Wiesinger	12	11	282.7	100	11
Gudrun Hauss Walter Häfner	7	9	293.6	67	8
Margot Glockshuber Wolfgang Danne	3	3	304.4	30

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

First round

West Germany - Romania 7:0 (1:0, 3:0, 3:0)
Goalscorers: Gustav Hanig 2, Alois Schloder, Ernst Kopf, Otto Schneitberger, Horst Meindl, Heinz Weisenbach.

Final Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2	Czechoslovakia	7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3	Canada	7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4	Sweden	7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6	United States	7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8	East Germany	7	0	7	0	13	48	0

Canada – West Germany 6:1 (0:0, 4:1, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Bourbonnais 2, Cadieux, Dineen, Mott, Huck – Kopf.
Referees: Seglin, Snětkov (URS)

Czechoslovakia – West Germany 5:1 (1:0, 2:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hrbatý, Golonka, Havel, Hejma, Ševčík – Lax.
Referees: Kubinec, McEvoy (CAN)

Sweden – West Germany 5:4 (4:3, 0:0, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Svedberg, Lundström, Nordlander, Olsson, Öberg – Kuhn, Hanig, Reif, Kopf.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)

USSR – West Germany 9:1 (4:1, 4:0, 1:0)
Goalscorers: Populanov 2, Alexandrov 2, Ionov, Staršinov, Majorov, Mojsejev, Firsov – Funk.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Valentin (AUT)

USA – West Germany 8:1 (2:1, 4:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Volmar 2, Ross, Morrison, Nanne, Pleau, Cunnoff, P. Hurley – Funk.
Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Seglin (URS)

Finland– West Germany 4:1 (2:1, 1:0, 1:0)
Goalscorers: Leimu 2, Ketola, J. Peltonen – Schloder.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)

East Germany – West Germany 2:4 (0:1, 1:2, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Hiller, Fuchs – Funk, Waitl, Hanig, Lax.
Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

Contestants

7. WEST GERMANY
Goaltenders: Josef Schramm, Günther Knauss.
Defence: Leonhard Eaitl, Johannes Schichtl, Rudolf Thanner, Otto Schneitberger, Josef Völk, Heinz Bader.
Forwards: Josef Reif, Ernst Köpf, Bernd Kuhn, Lorenz Funk, Alois Schloder, Gustav Hanig, Horst Meindl, Heinz Weisenbach, Manfred Gmeiner, Peter Lax.
Coach: Ed Riegle.

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fritz Nachmann	58.54	16	59.05	17	58.82	16	2:56.41	17
Wolfgang Winkler	58.08	10	58.86	14	58.41	10	2:55.35	11
Leonhard Nagenrauft	57.87	7	58.45	9	58.39	9	2:54.71	9
Hans Plenk	57.30	2	58.37	7	58.00	6	2:53.67	6

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann	48.58	3	48.71	3	1:37.29
Hans Plenk Bernhard Aschauer	48.70	4	48.91	5	1:37.61	4

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ute Gähler	49.78	10	49.93	4	50.71	7	2:30.42	8
Angelika Dünhaupt	49.34	4	49.88	3	50.34	2	2:29.56
Christa Schmuck	49.15	2	49.84	2	50.38	3	2:29.37

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 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 Naumann	Individual	67.5	68.5	190.0	28	49:48.5	220.89	5	410.89	14
Hans Rudhardt		71.0	72.5	195.4	22	53:15.3	179.34	28	374.74	29
Franz Keller		73.0	77.5	240.1	1	50:45.2	208.94	13	449.04
Alfred Winkler		71.5	71.0	192.8	25	52:26.0	188.79	24	381.59	25

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Heini Ihle	Normal hill	75.5	102.6	70.0	94.8	197.4	22
Henrik Ohlmeyer		75.0	104.8	67.5	88.8	193.6	28
Günther Göllner		77.0	109.5	70.5	97.6	207.1	10
Heini Ihle	Large hill	82.0	73.7	84.5	82.7	156.4	46
Henrik Ohlmeyer		90.5	92.6	86.0	85.3	177.9	33
Franz Keller		90.5	93.6	84.0	80.5	174.1	36
Günther Göllner		93.0	96.6	85.0	86.9	183.5	29

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Günter Traub	42.5	31
	Gerd Zimmermann	41.5	19
	Herbert Höfl	41.0	11
	Erhard Keller	40.3
1500 m	Jürgen Traub	2:10.2	22
	Günter Traub	2:07.7	15
5000 m	Jürgen Traub	7:55.3	20
	Günter Traub	7:40.4	13
10,000 m	Jürgen Traub	16:33.8	18
	Günter Traub	16:01.3	11

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Hildegard Sellhuber	48.4	21
	Evi Sappl	47.4	12
1000 m	Evi Sappl	1:37.4	17
	Hildegard Sellhuber	1:37.2	16
1500 m	Paula Dufter	2:45.2	30
	Hildegard Sellhuber	2:27.5	9
3000 m	Paula Dufter	5:27.0	19

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com