Doubles, Open
| Date | 10 February 1976 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Kunsteis-Bob- und Rodelbahn, Igls | |
| Participants | 50 from 15 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Curves: 10 Length: 870 m Start Altitude: ? Vertical Drop: 72 m | |
As in the two singles events, East Germany was heavily favoured to win the gold medal. Their top entry was the brother team of Bernd and Ulli Hahn, who had grabbed the world title in 1974 and 1975. The other team consisted of Norbert Hahn (not related) and Hans Rinn. Rinn had taken a bronze in the individual event, while they had won two European titles in the doubles. The Hahn brothers disappointed in the first run, placing only sixth. Desperate to make up in the second run, they had mechanical troubles in the very first curve and finished last, dropping to 15th. This paved the way for Rinn and Hahn, who had a slim 0.019 lead after run one on the top West German couple. They had to go down early in the second run, and then had to witness as none of the other teams matched their time.
| Pos | Pair | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hans Rinn / Norbert Hahn |  GDR | 1:25.604 | 42.773 (1) | 42.831 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Hans Brandner / Balthasar Schwarm |  FRG | 1:25.889 | 42.792 (2) | 43.097 (4) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Rudolf Schmid / Franz Schachner |  AUT | 1:25.919 | 42.997 (3) | 42.922 (2) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Stefan Hölzlwimmer / Rudi Größwang | FRG | 1:26.238 | 43.205 (5) | 43.033 (3) | |||
| 5 | Manfred Schmid / Reinhold Sulzbacher | AUT | 1:26.424 | 43.035 (4) | 43.389 (6) | |||
| 6 | Jindřich Zeman / Vladimír Resl |  TCH | 1:26.826 | 43.315 (7) | 43.511 (7) | |||
| 7 | Karl Feichter / Ernst Haspinger |  ITA | 1:27.171 | 43.853 (12) | 43.318 (5) | |||
| 8 | Dainis Bremze / Aigars Kriķis |  URS | 1:27.407 | 43.667 (8) | 43.740 (8) | |||
| 9 | Rolands Upatnieks / Valdis Ķuzis | URS | 1:27.557 | 43.732 (9) | 43.825 (9) | |||
| 10 | Andrzej Żyła / Jan Kasielski |  POL | 1:27.737 | 43.748 (10) | 43.989 (11) | |||
| 11 | Paul Hildgartner / Walter Plaikner | ITA | 1:27.839 | 43.781 (11) | 44.058 (12) | |||
| 12 | Mirosław Więckowski / Andrzej Kozik | POL | 1:28.002 | 44.025 (13) | 43.977 (10) | |||
| 13 | Asle Strand / Helge Svensen |  NOR | 1:28.454 | 44.097 (14) | 44.357 (14) | |||
| 14 | Michael Gårdebäck / Nils Vinberg |  SWE | 1:29.217 | 44.958 (17) | 44.259 (13) | |||
| 15 | Martin Ore / Eilif Nedberg | NOR | 1:29.278 | 44.744 (15) | 44.534 (15) | |||
| 16 | Bernd Hahn / Ulli Hahn | GDR | 1:29.847 | 43.291 (6) | 46.556 (24) | |||
| 17 | Larry Arbuthnot / Doug Hansen |  CAN | 1:30.035 | 44.933 (16) | 45.102 (17) | |||
| 18 | Kazuaki Ichikawa / Masaaki Oyagi |  JPN | 1:30.583 | 45.176 (18) | 45.407 (19) | |||
| 19 | Max Beck / Wolfgang Schädler |  LIE | 1:30.789 | 45.517 (20) | 45.272 (18) | |||
| 20 | Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson / Michel de Carvalho |  GBR | 1:31.377 | 46.400 (23) | 44.977 (16) | |||
| 21 | Shieh Wei-Cheng / Huang Liu-Chong |  TPE | 1:31.378 | 45.745 (21) | 45.633 (21) | |||
| 22 | David McComb / Michael Shragge | CAN | 1:31.590 | 45.421 (19) | 46.169 (23) | |||
| 23 | Robert Berkley, Jr. / Richard Cavanaugh |  USA | 1:32.009 | 46.455 (24) | 45.554 (20) | |||
| 24 | Jim Moriarty / John Fee | USA | 1:32.040 | 46.075 (22) | 45.965 (22) | |||
| Dick Liversedge / Russell Tapp | GBR | – | – (25) | – ( |