Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

Men's singles at the X Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Villard-de-Lans
Dates	February 11-13
Competitors	50 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:52.48
Medalists
Manfred Schmid   Austria   Thomas Köhler   East Germany   Klaus-Michael Bonsack   East Germany

Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Events
Singles men  women
Doubles  doubles

The men's singles luge competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held from 11 to 13 February, at Villard-de-Lans.^[1] Originally, four runs were scheduled, but poor weather meant that the competition was delayed, and the fourth run was eventually cancelled.

Results

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Rank	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total
01 !	Manfred Schmid	Austria	57.16	57.73	57.59	2:52.48
02 !	Thomas Köhler	East Germany	57.68	57.47	57.51	2:52.66
03 !	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	East Germany	57.90	57.63	57.80	2:53.33
4	Zbigniew Gawior	Poland	57.55	58.35	57.61	2:53.51
5	Josef Feistmantl	Austria	57.78	58.06	57.73	2:53.57
6	Hans Plenk	West Germany	57.30	58.37	58.00	2:53.67
7	Horst Hörnlein	East Germany	57.49	58.04	58.57	2:54.10
8	Jerzy Wojnar	Poland	58.16	58.38	58.08	2:54.62
9	Leonhard Nagenrauft	West Germany	57.87	58.45	58.39	2:54.71
10	Emilio Lechner	Italy	57.94	58.63	58.53	2:55.10
11	Wolfgang Winkler	West Germany	58.08	58.86	58.41	2:55.35
12	Giovanni Graber	Italy	58.09	58.59	58.88	2:55.56
13	Lucjan Kudzia	Poland	59.27	58.46	58.18	2:55.91
14	Helmut Thaler	Austria	58.42	59.03	58.60	2:56.05
15	Jan Hamřík	Czechoslovakia	58.43	58.56	59.07	2:56.06
16	Sigisfredo Mair	Italy	58.22	59.51	58.45	2:56.18
17	Fritz Nachmann	West Germany	58.54	59.05	58.82	2:56.41
18	Raimondo Prinoth	Italy	58.80	59.16	58.89	2:56.85
19	Rolf Greger Strøm	Norway	59.04	59.28	58.67	2:56.99
20	František Halíř	Czechoslovakia	59.07	59.10	58.93	2:57.10
21	Jan-Axel Strøm	Norway	58.84	59.26	59.04	2:57.14
22	Tadeusz Radwan	Poland	59.03	59.01	59.19	2:57.23
23	Jan Nilsson	Sweden	59.00	59.67	59.24	2:57.91
24	Horst Urban	Czechoslovakia	58.93	59.54	59.91	2:58.38
25	Hans Sahlin	Sweden	59.12	59.36	59.98	2:58.46
26	Kim Layton	United States	59.73	59.45	59.46	2:58.64
27	Roland Urban	Czechoslovakia	59.20	59.59	00.24	2:59.03
28	James Murray	United States	00.34	59.94	59.72	3:00.00
29	Georges Tresallet	France	59.75	00.41	00.21	3:00.37
30	Mike Hessel	United States	00.00	00.46	00.16	3:00.62
31	Roger Eddy	Canada	00.69	00.30	00.40	3:01.39
32	Ivar Bjare	Sweden	00.73	01.44	00.63	3:02.80
33	Larry Arbuthnot	Canada	00.10	00.92	01.99	3:03.01
34	Per-Ulf Helander	Sweden	00.25	01.67	01.20	3:03.12
35	Jean-Pierre De Petro	France	01.03	01.24	01.26	3:03.53
36	Werner Sele	Liechtenstein	00.92	01.27	01.69	3:03.88
37	Colin Nelson	Canada	01.13	01.90	01.53	3:04.56
38	Ion Pervilhac	France	01.98	02.99	01.45	3:06.42
39	Richard Liversedge	Great Britain	02.83	02.81	01.40	3:07.04
40	James Manclark	Great Britain	02.99	03.12	01.83	3:07.94
41	Simon Beck	Liechtenstein	03.52	04.54	03.59	3:11.65
42	Jesús Gatell	Spain	03.15	04.38	04.25	3:11.78
43	Jorge Monjo	Spain	05.18	03.35	05.12	3:13.65
44	Jorge Roura	Spain	04.01	05.54	04.42	3:13.97
45	Luis Omedes	Spain	14.43	04.89	05.82	3:25.14
46	Robin Partch	United States	30.36	59.78	59.53	3:29.67
47	D'Arcy Coulson	Canada	02.69	31.24	02.19	3:36.12
-	Julius Schädler	Liechtenstein	DNF	-	-	-
-	Peter Kretauer	Austria	DQ	-	-	-
-	Wolfgang Scheidel	East Germany	DQ	-	-	-

References

Sports-Reference - 1968 Luge Men's singles