# West Germany at the 1972 Winter Olympics

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Gold | Erhard Keller | Speed skating | Men's 500m |
| Gold | Monika Pflug | Speed skating | Women's 1000m |
| Silver | Horst Floth Pepi Bader | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Bronze | Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Walter Steinbauer Peter Utzschneider | Bobsleigh | Four-man |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Willi Lesch | Downhill | | | | | 1:56.67 | 29 |
| Alfred Hagn | Downhill | | | | | 1:56.04 | 27 |
| Franz Vogler | Downhill | | | | | 1:55.50 | 24 |
| Hans-Jörg Schlager | Downhill | | | | | 1:55.05 | 18 |
| Sepp Heckelmiller | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Max Rieger | Giant Slalom | 1:33.86 | 14 | 1:38.08 | 5 | 3:11.94 | 6 |
| Christian Neureuther | Giant Slalom | 1:33.24 | 6 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Alfred Hagn | Giant Slalom | 1:31.78 | 2 | 1:39.38 | 11 | 3:11.16 | 4 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Classification | Classification | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Hans-Jörg Schlager | 1:43.30 | 1 | 56.56 | 6 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Max Rieger | bye | bye | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Christian Neureuther | bye | bye | 58.42 | 18 | 54.48 | 5 | 1:52.90 | 11 |
| Alfred Hagn | bye | bye | 56.64 | 7 | DNF | – | DNF | – |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Pamela Behr | Downhill | | | | | 1:44.22 | 36 |
| Traudl Treichl | Downhill | | | | | 1:40.62 | 13 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Downhill | | | | | 1:39.32 | 6 |
| Rosi Speiser | Downhill | | | | | 1:39.10 | 5 |
| Pamela Behr | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:35.87 | 25 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:33.39 | 12 |
| Traudl Treichl | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:33.08 | 9 |
| Rosi Speiser | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:32.56 | 5 |
| Rosi Speiser | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Traudl Treichl | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Pamela Behr | Slalom | 47.57 | 8 | 46.70 | 4 | 1:34.27 | 6 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Slalom | 47.27 | 7 | 53.90 | 19 | 1:41.17 | 18 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Theo Merkel | 1'19:58.17 | 11 | 1'30:58.17 | 50 |
| 20 km | Josef Niedermeier | 1'21:26.44 | 8 | 1'29:26.44 | 46 |
$^1$One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| FRG-1 | Horst Floth Pepi Bader | Two-man | 1:16.04 | 5 | 1:15.38 | 4 | 1:14.35 | 6 | 1:13.07 | 1 | 4:58.84 | |
| FRG-2 | Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider | Two-man | 1:14.81 | 1 | 1:14.56 | 1 | 1:13.51 | 1 | 1:14.19 | 4 | 4:57.07 | |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| FRG-1 | Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Walter Steinbauer Peter Utzschneider | Four-man | 1:11.18 | 3 | 1:11.75 | 3 | 1:10.30 | 4 | 1:10.69 | 2 | 4:43.92 | |
| FRG-2 | Horst Floth Donat Ertel Walter Gillik Pepi Bader | Four-man | 1:10.83 | 2 | 1:11.88 | 4 | 1:11.06 | 6 | 1:11.32 | 7 | 4:45.09 | 5 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Franz Betz | 49:00.41 | 36 |
| 15 km | Hartmut Döpp | 48:46.08 | 32 |
| 15 km | Gerhard Gehring | 47:33.78 | 22 |
| 15 km | Walter Demel | 46:17.36 | 7 |
| 30 km | Edgar Eckert | 1'45:38.51 | 38 |
| 30 km | Hartmut Döpp | 1'44:51.05 | 35 |
| 30 km | Gerhard Gehring | 1'39:44.47 | 10 |
| 30 km | Walter Demel | 1'37:45.53 | 5 |
| 50 km | Edgar Eckert | 3'00:08.32 | 31 |
| 50 km | Walter Demel | 2'44:32.67 | 5 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Franz Betz Urban Hettich Hartmut Döpp Walter Demel | 2'10:42.85 | 7 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Monika Mrklas | 17:57.40 | 24 |
| 5 km | Michaela Endler | 17:32.56 | 11 |
| 10 km | Monika Mrklas | DNF | – |
| 10 km | Ingrid Rothfuß | 38:03.69 | 32 |
| 10 km | Michaela Endler | 36:38.05 | 17 |

### Women's 3 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Monika Mrklas Ingrid Rothfuß Michaela Endler | 50:25.61 | 4 |

## Figure skating
### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Isabelle de Navarre | 16 | 14 | 2340.0 | 128 | 14 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Corinne Halke Eberhard Rausch | 10 | 10 | 381.1 | 87 | 10 |
| Almut Lehmann Herbert Wiesinger | 5 | 6 | 399.8 | 52 | 5 |

## Ice hockey
### First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Poland | 4–0 | West Germany |

### Consolation Round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 7 | West Germany | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 6 |
| 8 | Norway | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 6 |
| 9 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 5 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 2 |
| 11 | Yugoslavia | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 1 |
* West Germany 5-0 Switzerland
* West Germany 6-2 Yugoslavia
* West Germany 5-1 Norway
* Japan 7-6 West Germany
* Team roster
   * Anton Kehle
   * Heiko Antons
   * Georg Kink
   * Rainer Makatsch
   * Otto Schneitberger
   * Josef Völk
   * Werner Modes
   * Paul Langner
   * Rudolf Thanner
   * Karl-Heinz Egger
   * Rainer Philipp
   * Bernd Kuhn
   * Reinhold Bauer
   * Johann Eimannsberger
   * Lorenz Funk
   * Erich Kühnhackl
   * Alois Schloder
   * Anton Hofherr
   * Hans Rothkirch
   * Martin Wild
* Head coach: Gerhard Kießling

## Luge
### Men

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Hans Wimmer | 54.09 | 15 | 53.82 | 17 | 52.62 | 14 | 53.27 | 21 | 3:33.80 | 17 |
| Wolfgang Winkler | 54.07 | 14 | 53.53 | 14 | 52.66 | 15 | 52.82 | 15 | 3:33.08 | 15 |
| Josef Fendt | 53.03 | 5 | 52.73 | 5 | 52.25 | 9 | 52.02 | 7 | 3:30.03 | 6 |
| Leonhard Nagenrauft | 53.00 | 4 | 52.79 | 7 | 51.97 | 6 | 51.91 | 4 | 3:29.67 | 5 |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm | 44.86 | 5 | 44.80 | 5 | 1:29.66 | 5 |
| Stefan Hölzlwimmer Hans Wimmer | 45.61 | 11 | 45.31 | 9 | 1:30.92 | 11 |

### Women

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Gisela Otto | 47.04 | 17 | 46.78 | 16 | 46.73 | 19 | 45.99 | 15 | 3:06.54 | 18 |
| Christa Schmuck | 45.98 | 10 | 46.01 | 8 | 45.99 | 12 | 45.21 | 10 | 3:03.19 | 10 |
| Elisabeth Demleitner | 45.45 | 5 | 45.62 | 4 | 45.08 | 4 | 44.65 | 4 | 3:00.80 | 4 |

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Urban Hettich | Individual | 70.0 | 66.5 | 152.1 | 32 | 49:00.4 | 214.675 | 2 | 366.775 | 20 |
| Alfred Winkler | Individual | 71.5 | 72.5 | 175.6 | 20 | 52:41.5 | 181.510 | 32 | 357.110 | 25 |
| Franz Keller | Individual | 65.5 | 68.5 | 154.0 | 31 | 52:32.5 | 182.860 | 30 | 336.860 | 33 |
| Ralph Pöhland | Individual | 73.0 | 71.5 | 174.8 | 22 | 49:55.6 | 206.395 | 5 | 381.195 | 10 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Sepp Schwinghammer | Normal hill | 68.5 | 89.8 | 68.5 | 90.3 | 180.1 | 49 |
| Alfred Grosche | Normal hill | 70.0 | 92.2 | 69.0 | 90.6 | 182.8 | 47 |
| Günther Göllner | Normal hill | 74.0 | 101.6 | 66.0 | 84.3 | 185.9 | 46 |
| Alfred Grosche | Large hill | 84.0 (fall) | 44.6 | 77.5 | 75.0 | 119.6 | 52 |
| Günther Göllner | Large hill | 90.0 | 93.0 | 87.0 | 82.3 | 175.3 | 27 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Herbert Schwarz | 43.03 | 31 |
| 500 m | Gerd Zimmermann | 41.35 | 21 |
| 500 m | Hans Lichtenstern | 40.55 | 10 |
| 500 m | Erhard Keller | 39.44 OR | |
| 1500 m | Herbert Schwarz | 2:15.42 | 32 |
| 1500 m | Gerd Zimmermann | 2:08.95 | 12 |
| 5000 m | Herbert Schwarz | 8:26.03 | 27 |
| 5000 m | Gerd Zimmermann | 7:41.16 | 9 |
| 10,000 m | Gerd Zimmermann | 15:43.92 | 8 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Monika Stützle | 48.15 | 27 |
| 500 m | Paula Dufter | 45.77 | 12 |
| 500 m | Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug | 44.75 | 5 |
| 1000 m | Paula Dufter | 1:34.86 | 16 |
| 1000 m | Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug | 1:31.40 OR | |
| 1500 m | Monika Stützle | 2:37.15 | 31 |
| 1500 m | Paula Dufter | 2:26.00 | 15 |
| 1500 m | Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug | 2:24.69 | 10 |