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Doubles, Open

Date18 February 1968
StatusOlympic
LocationPiste de Luge, Villard-de-Lans
Participants30 from 9 countries
FormatTwo runs, total time determined placement.
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Unlike the other two luge events at Grenoble, both of the runs of the doubles event were completed, although they were postponed from their original schedule on 15 February. Favourites for the title were the 1967 World Champions, East Germany’s Thomas Köhler and Klaus-Michael Bonsack. The pair had won gold and silver in the 1964 singles, and silver and bronze at Villard-de-Lans. Contenders were the runners-up from the World Championships, Manfred Schmid and Ewald Walch of Austria, especially after had Schmid won the individual gold medal earlier in the Olympics. However, there was little competition in the two runs, and the three medalling teams finished 1-2-3 in both runs.

PosPairNOCTimeRun #1Run #2
1Klaus-Michael Bonsack / Thomas KöhlerGDR1:35.8547.88 (1)47.97 (1)Gold
2Manfred Schmid / Ewald WalchAUT1:36.3448.16 (2)48.18 (2)Silver
3Wolfgang Winkler / Fritz NachmannFRG1:37.2948.58 (3)48.71 (3)Bronze
4Hans Plenk / Bernhard AschauerFRG1:37.6148.70 (4)48.91 (5)
5Horst Hörnlein / Reinhard BredowGDR1:37.8148.80 (5)49.01 (6)
6Zbigniew Gawior / Ryszard GawiorPOL1:37.8549.01 (=7)48.84 (4)
7Josef Feistmantl / Wilhelm BiechlAUT1:38.1148.81 (6)49.30 (10)
8Giovanni Graber / Enrico GraberITA1:38.1549.01 (=7)49.14 (8)
9Lucjan Kudzia / Stanisław PaczkaPOL1:38.1749.09 (9)49.08 (7)
10Ernesto Mair / Sigisfredo MairITA1:38.6749.10 (10)49.57 (11)
11Georges Tresallet / Ion Pervilhac FournierFRA1:39.2649.97 (11)49.29 (9)
12Horst Urban / Roland UrbanTCH1:40.4850.46 (12)50.02 (12)
13Ivar Bjare / Jan NilssonSWE1:41.5651.04 (13)50.52 (13)
14Jan Hamřík / František HalířTCH1:42.1051.85 (14)50.85 (14)
DNFMike Hessel / Jim MoriartyUSA– (DNF)1