Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Doubles
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| Doubles at the X Olympic Winter Games
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| Venue | Villard-de-Lans | |||||||||
| Dates | February 18 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 9 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1:35.85 | |||||||||
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| Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics |
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| Events |
| Singles men women |
| Doubles doubles |
The doubles luge competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held on 18 February, at Villard-de-Lans.[1]
With his win, Thomas Köhler became the first person to win in both men's singles (1964) and doubles.
Results
| Rank | Athletes | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
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Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler |
 East Germany |
47.88 | 47.97 | 1:35.85 |
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Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch |
 Austria |
48.16 | 48.18 | 1:36.34 |
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Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann |
West Germany |
48.58 | 48.71 | 1:37.29 |
| 4 | Hans Plenk Bernhard Aschauer |
West Germany |
48.70 | 48.91 | 1:37.61 |
| 5 | Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow |
East Germany |
48.80 | 49.01 | 1:37.81 |
| 6 | Zbigniew Gawior Ryszard Gawior |
 Poland |
49.01 | 48.84 | 1:37.85 |
| 7 | Josef Feistmantl Wilhelm Biechl |
Austria |
48.81 | 49.30 | 1:38.11 |
| 8 | Giovanni Graber Enrico Graber |
 Italy |
49.01 | 49.14 | 1:38.15 |
| 9 | Lucjan Kudzia Stanisław Paczka |
Poland |
49.09 | 49.08 | 1:38.17 |
| 10 | Ernesto Mair Sigisfredo Mair |
Italy |
49.10 | 49.57 | 1:38.67 |
| 11 | Georges Tresallet Ion Pervilhac |
 France |
49.97 | 49.29 | 1:39.26 |
| 12 | Horst Urban Roland Urban |
 Czechoslovakia |
50.46 | 50.02 | 1:40.48 |
| 13 | Jan Hamřík František Halíř |
Czechoslovakia |
51.85 | 50.85 | 1:42.70 |
| 14 | Ivar Bjare Jan Nilsson |
 Sweden |
51.04 | 52.52 | 1:43.56 |
| - | Mike Hessel Jim Moriarty |
 United States |
DNF | - | - |
