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| Date | 10 February 1976 | |
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| 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 | 👁 Image GDR | 1:25.604 | 42.773 (1) | 42.831 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Hans Brandner / Balthasar Schwarm | 👁 Image FRG | 1:25.889 | 42.792 (2) | 43.097 (4) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Rudolf Schmid / Franz Schachner | 👁 Image AUT | 1:25.919 | 42.997 (3) | 42.922 (2) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Stefan Hölzlwimmer / Rudi Größwang | 👁 Image FRG | 1:26.238 | 43.205 (5) | 43.033 (3) | |||
| 5 | Manfred Schmid / Reinhold Sulzbacher | 👁 Image AUT | 1:26.424 | 43.035 (4) | 43.389 (6) | |||
| 6 | Jindřich Zeman / Vladimír Resl | 👁 Image TCH | 1:26.826 | 43.315 (7) | 43.511 (7) | |||
| 7 | Karl Feichter / Ernst Haspinger | 👁 Image ITA | 1:27.171 | 43.853 (12) | 43.318 (5) | |||
| 8 | Dainis Bremze / Aigars Kriķis | 👁 Image URS | 1:27.407 | 43.667 (8) | 43.740 (8) | |||
| 9 | Rolands Upatnieks / Valdis Ķuzis | 👁 Image URS | 1:27.557 | 43.732 (9) | 43.825 (9) | |||
| 10 | Andrzej Żyła / Jan Kasielski | 👁 Image POL | 1:27.737 | 43.748 (10) | 43.989 (11) | |||
| 11 | Paul Hildgartner / Walter Plaikner | 👁 Image ITA | 1:27.839 | 43.781 (11) | 44.058 (12) | |||
| 12 | Mirosław Więckowski / Andrzej Kozik | 👁 Image POL | 1:28.002 | 44.025 (13) | 43.977 (10) | |||
| 13 | Asle Strand / Helge Svensen | 👁 Image NOR | 1:28.454 | 44.097 (14) | 44.357 (14) | |||
| 14 | Michael Gårdebäck / Nils Vinberg | 👁 Image SWE | 1:29.217 | 44.958 (17) | 44.259 (13) | |||
| 15 | Martin Ore / Eilif Nedberg | 👁 Image NOR | 1:29.278 | 44.744 (15) | 44.534 (15) | |||
| 16 | Bernd Hahn / Ulli Hahn | 👁 Image GDR | 1:29.847 | 43.291 (6) | 46.556 (24) | |||
| 17 | Larry Arbuthnot / Doug Hansen | 👁 Image CAN | 1:30.035 | 44.933 (16) | 45.102 (17) | |||
| 18 | Kazuaki Ichikawa / Masaaki Oyagi | 👁 Image JPN | 1:30.583 | 45.176 (18) | 45.407 (19) | |||
| 19 | Max Beck / Wolfgang Schädler | 👁 Image LIE | 1:30.789 | 45.517 (20) | 45.272 (18) | |||
| 20 | Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson / Michel de Carvalho | 👁 Image GBR | 1:31.377 | 46.400 (23) | 44.977 (16) | |||
| 21 | Shieh Wei-Cheng / Huang Liu-Chong | 👁 Image TPE | 1:31.378 | 45.745 (21) | 45.633 (21) | |||
| 22 | David McComb / Michael Shragge | 👁 Image CAN | 1:31.590 | 45.421 (19) | 46.169 (23) | |||
| 23 | Robert Berkley, Jr. / Richard Cavanaugh | 👁 Image USA | 1:32.009 | 46.455 (24) | 45.554 (20) | |||
| 24 | Jim Moriarty / John Fee | 👁 Image USA | 1:32.040 | 46.075 (22) | 45.965 (22) | |||
| Dick Liversedge / Russell Tapp | 👁 Image GBR | – | – (25) | – () |
