# West Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. West German athletes had competed together with East German athletes as the United Team of Germany in the previous three Winter Olympic Games, but both nations sent independent teams starting in 1968.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Franz Keller | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
| Gold | Erhard Keller | Speed skating | Men's 500m |
| Silver | Horst Floth Pepi Bader | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Silver | Christa Schmuck | Luge | Women's individual |
| Bronze | Margot Glockshuber Wolfgang Danne | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Bronze | Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Bronze | Angelika Dünhaupt | Luge | Women's individual |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Dieter Fersch | Downhill | | | | | 2:03.41 | 19 |
| Franz Vogler | Downhill | | | | | 2:02.94 | 15 |
| Luggi Leitner | Downhill | | | | | 2:02.54 | 12 |
| Gerhard Prinzing | Downhill | | | | | 2:02.10 | 7 |
| Gerhard Prinzing | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Sepp Heckelmiller | Giant Slalom | 1:48.25 | 26 | 1:50.70 | 20 | 3:38.95 | 24 |
| Luggi Leitner | Giant Slalom | 1:47.64 | 24 | 1:51.21 | 27 | 3:38.85 | 23 |
| Willi Lesch | Giant Slalom | 1:47.48 | 21 | 1:51.35 | 30 | 3:38.83 | 22 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Heat 2 | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Willi Lesch | 52.07 | 2 QF | – | – | 51.28 | 16 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Max Rieger | 54.20 | 3 | 54.52 | 1 QF | 53.81 | 35 | 51.57 | 12 | 1:45.38 | 20 |
| Alfred Hagn | 54.04 | 3 | 55.43 | 1 QF | 52.95 | 30 | 51.70 | 13 | 1:44.65 | 16 |
| Luggi Leitner | 55.34 | 3 | 53.47 | 1 QF | 50.89 | 14 | 52.61 | 19 | 1:43.50 | 12 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Downhill | | | | | 1:47.73 | 25 |
| Christine Laprell | Downhill | | | | | 1:47.62 | 24 |
| Margret Hafen | Downhill | | | | | 1:45.33 | 19 |
| Burgl Färbinger | Downhill | | | | | 1:44.29 | 14 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:58.75 | 20 |
| Margret Hafen | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:58.47 | 18 |
| Christine Laprell | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:58.12 | 15 |
| Burgl Färbinger | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:57.20 | 10 |
| Christl Hintermaier | Slalom | 44.67 | 18 | 49.95 | 18 | 1:34.62 | 16 |
| Christine Laprell | Slalom | 42.94 | 10 | 48.31 | 11 | 1:31.25 | 10 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Slalom | 42.90 | 9 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Burgl Färbinger | Slalom | 42.70 | 8 | 46.20 | 6 | 1:28.90 | 6 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Herbert Hindelang | 1'21:48.5 | 10 | 1'31:48.5 | 41 |
| 20 km | Xaver Kraus | 1'18:40.2 | 12 | 1'30:40.2 | 39 |
| 20 km | Gerhard Gehring | 1'20:26.8 | 8 | 1'28:26.8 | 32 |
| 20 km | Theo Merkel | 1'18:10.5 | 4 | 1'22:10.5 | 12 |
$^1$One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^2$ | Time | Rank |
| Herbert Hindelang Theo Merkel Xaver Kraus Gerhard Gehring | 6 | 2'29:56.6 | 9 |
$^2$A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

## 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 | 1:10.76 | 5 | 1:10.43 | 1 | 1:10.20 | 1 | 1:10.15 | 2 | 4:41.54 | |
| FRG-2 | Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider | Two-man | 1:12.36 | 15 | 1:11.94 | 8 | 1:10.77 | 4 | 1:11.33 | 4 | 4:46.40 | 7 |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| FRG-1 | Horst Floth Willi Schäfer Frank Lange Pepi Bader | Four-man | 1:10.49 | 5 | 1:07.84 | 5 | 2:18.33 | 5 |
| FRG-2 | Wolfgang Zimmerer Stefan Gaisreiter Hans Baumann Peter Utzschneider | Four-man | 1:11.12 | 13 | 1:08.35 | 8 | 2:19.47 | 9 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Klaus Ganter | 52:30.0 | 39 |
| 15 km | Helmut Gerlach | 52:21.8 | 38 |
| 15 km | Karl Buhl | 50:38.1 | 20 |
| 15 km | Walter Demel | 49:38.4 | 12 |
| 30 km | Karlheinz Scherzinger | 1'47:08.7 | 48 |
| 30 km | Herbert Steinbeißer | 1'46:31.2 | 46 |
| 30 km | Karl Buhl | 1'42:52.2 | 31 |
| 30 km | Walter Demel | 1'37:49.2 | 9 |
| 50 km | Klaus Ganter | DNF | – |
| 50 km | Siegfried Weiß | 2'46:53.4 | 43 |
| 50 km | Helmut Gerlach | 2'41:55.8 | 33 |
| 50 km | Walter Demel | 2'31:14.4 | 9 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Helmut Gerlach Walter Demel Herbert Steinbeißer Karl Buhl | 2'19:37.6 | 8 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Barbara Barthel | 18:20.0 | 29 |
| 5 km | Michaela Endler | 17:59.2 | 25 |
| 5 km | Monika Mrklas | 17:32.5 | 17 |
| 10 km | Barbara Barthel | DNF | – |
| 10 km | Michaela Endler | 41:01.1 | 26 |
| 10 km | Monika Mrklas | 39:58.2 | 20 |

### Women's 3 x 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Michaela Endler Barbara Barthel Monika Mrklas | 1'01:49.3 | 7 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Jürgen Eberwein | 25 | 22 | 1530.3 | 219 | 24 |
| Peter Krick | 7 | 16 | 1723.2 | 104 | 12 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Eileen Zillmer | 12 | 23 | 1600.3 | 171 | 19 |
| Petra Ruhrmann | 16 | 18 | 1611.2 | 161 | 17 |
| Monika Feldmann | 11 | 13 | 1687.1 | 99 | 10 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Marianne Streifler Herbert Wiesinger | 12 | 11 | 282.7 | 100 | 11 |
| Gudrun Hauss Walter Häfner | 7 | 9 | 293.6 | 67 | 8 |
| Margot Glockshuber Wolfgang Danne | 3 | 3 | 304.4 | 30 | |

## Ice hockey
### First round

West Germany - Romania 7:0 (1:0, 3:0, 3:0) Goalscorers: Gustav Hanig 2, Alois Schloder, Ernst Kopf, Otto Schneitberger, Horst Meindl, Heinz Weisenbach.

### Final Round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 10 | 12 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 17 | 11 |
| 3 | Canada | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 10 |
| 4 | Sweden | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 18 | 9 |
| 5 | Finland | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 23 | 7 |
| 6 | United States | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 28 | 5 |
| 7 | West Germany | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 2 |
| 8 | East Germany | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 48 | 0 |
Canada – West Germany 6:1 (0:0, 4:1, 2:0) Goalscorers: Bourbonnais 2, Cadieux, Dineen, Mott, Huck – Kopf. Referees: Seglin, Snětkov (URS)
Czechoslovakia – West Germany 5:1 (1:0, 2:0, 2:1) Goalscorers: Hrbatý, Golonka, Havel, Hejma, Ševčík – Lax. Referees: Kubinec, McEvoy (CAN)
Sweden – West Germany 5:4 (4:3, 0:0, 1:1) Goalscorers: Svedberg, Lundström, Nordlander, Olsson, Öberg – Kuhn, Hanig, Reif, Kopf.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)
USSR – West Germany 9:1 (4:1, 4:0, 1:0) Goalscorers: Populanov 2, Alexandrov 2, Ionov, Staršinov, Majorov, Mojsejev, Firsov – Funk. Referees: Trumble (USA), Valentin (AUT)
USA – West Germany 8:1 (2:1, 4:0, 2:0) Goalscorers: Volmar 2, Ross, Morrison, Nanne, Pleau, Cunnoff, P. Hurley – Funk. Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Seglin (URS)
Finland– West Germany 4:1 (2:1, 1:0, 1:0) Goalscorers: Leimu 2, Ketola, J. Peltonen – Schloder. Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)
East Germany – West Germany 2:4 (0:1, 1:2, 1:1) Goalscorers: Hiller, Fuchs – Funk, Waitl, Hanig, Lax. Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

### Contestants

7. WEST GERMANY Goaltenders: Josef Schramm, Günther Knauss. Defence: Leonhard Eaitl, Johannes Schichtl, Rudolf Thanner, Otto Schneitberger, Josef Völk, Heinz Bader. Forwards: Josef Reif, Ernst Köpf, Bernd Kuhn, Lorenz Funk, Alois Schloder, Gustav Hanig, Horst Meindl, Heinz Weisenbach, Manfred Gmeiner, Peter Lax. Coach: Ed Riegle.

## Luge
### Men

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Fritz Nachmann | 58.54 | 16 | 59.05 | 17 | 58.82 | 16 | 2:56.41 | 17 |
| Wolfgang Winkler | 58.08 | 10 | 58.86 | 14 | 58.41 | 10 | 2:55.35 | 11 |
| Leonhard Nagenrauft | 57.87 | 7 | 58.45 | 9 | 58.39 | 9 | 2:54.71 | 9 |
| Hans Plenk | 57.30 | 2 | 58.37 | 7 | 58.00 | 6 | 2:53.67 | 6 |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann | 48.58 | 3 | 48.71 | 3 | 1:37.29 | |
| Hans Plenk Bernhard Aschauer | 48.70 | 4 | 48.91 | 5 | 1:37.61 | 4 |

### Women

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Ute Gähler | 49.78 | 10 | 49.93 | 4 | 50.71 | 7 | 2:30.42 | 8 |
| Angelika Dünhaupt | 49.34 | 4 | 49.88 | 3 | 50.34 | 2 | 2:29.56 | |
| Christa Schmuck | 49.15 | 2 | 49.84 | 2 | 50.38 | 3 | 2:29.37 | |

## 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 |
| Günther Naumann | Individual | 67.5 | 68.5 | 190.0 | 28 | 49:48.5 | 220.89 | 5 | 410.89 | 14 |
| Hans Rudhardt | Individual | 71.0 | 72.5 | 195.4 | 22 | 53:15.3 | 179.34 | 28 | 374.74 | 29 |
| Franz Keller | Individual | 73.0 | 77.5 | 240.1 | 1 | 50:45.2 | 208.94 | 13 | 449.04 | |
| Alfred Winkler | Individual | 71.5 | 71.0 | 192.8 | 25 | 52:26.0 | 188.79 | 24 | 381.59 | 25 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Heini Ihle | Normal hill | 75.5 | 102.6 | 70.0 | 94.8 | 197.4 | 22 |
| Henrik Ohlmeyer | Normal hill | 75.0 | 104.8 | 67.5 | 88.8 | 193.6 | 28 |
| Günther Göllner | Normal hill | 77.0 | 109.5 | 70.5 | 97.6 | 207.1 | 10 |
| Heini Ihle | Large hill | 82.0 | 73.7 | 84.5 | 82.7 | 156.4 | 46 |
| Henrik Ohlmeyer | Large hill | 90.5 | 92.6 | 86.0 | 85.3 | 177.9 | 33 |
| Franz Keller | Large hill | 90.5 | 93.6 | 84.0 | 80.5 | 174.1 | 36 |
| Günther Göllner | Large hill | 93.0 | 96.6 | 85.0 | 86.9 | 183.5 | 29 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Günter Traub | 42.5 | 31 |
| 500 m | Gerd Zimmermann | 41.5 | 19 |
| 500 m | Herbert Höfl | 41.0 | 11 |
| 500 m | Erhard Keller | 40.3 | |
| 1500 m | Jürgen Traub | 2:10.2 | 22 |
| 1500 m | Günter Traub | 2:07.7 | 15 |
| 5000 m | Jürgen Traub | 7:55.3 | 20 |
| 5000 m | Günter Traub | 7:40.4 | 13 |
| 10,000 m | Jürgen Traub | 16:33.8 | 18 |
| 10,000 m | Günter Traub | 16:01.3 | 11 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Hildegard Sellhuber | 48.4 | 21 |
| 500 m | Evi Sappl | 47.4 | 12 |
| 1000 m | Evi Sappl | 1:37.4 | 17 |
| 1000 m | Hildegard Sellhuber | 1:37.2 | 16 |
| 1500 m | Paula Dufter | 2:45.2 | 30 |
| 1500 m | Hildegard Sellhuber | 2:27.5 | 9 |
| 3000 m | Paula Dufter | 5:27.0 | 19 |