# West Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Rosi Mittermaier | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
| Gold | Rosi Mittermaier | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
| Silver | Rosi Mittermaier | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
| Silver | Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Silver | Josef Fendt | Luge | Men's individual |
| Silver | Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Silver | Urban Hettich | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
| Bronze | Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| Bronze | West Germany men's national ice hockey team Erich WeißhauptAnton KehleRudolf ThannerJosef VolkUdo KiesslingStefan MetzKlaus AuhuberIgnaz BerndanerRainer PhillipLorenz FunkWolfgang BoosErnst KöpfFerenc VozarWalter KoberleErich KühnhacklAlois SchloderMartin HinterstockerFranz Reindl | Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| Bronze | Elisabeth Demleitner | 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 |
| Wolfgang Junginger | Downhill | | | | | 1:50.48 | 29 |
| Michael Veith | Downhill | | | | | 1:49.02 | 22 |
| Sepp Ferstl | Downhill | | | | | 1:48.41 | 17 |
| Peter Fischer | Downhill | | | | | 1:48.18 | 15 |
| Christian Neureuther | Giant Slalom | 1:52.29 | 37 | 1:51.73 | 29 | 3:44.02 | 30 |
| Sepp Ferstl | Giant Slalom | 1:49.98 | 30 | 1:51.54 | 28 | 3:41.52 | 28 |
| Wolfgang Junginger | Giant Slalom | 1:49.79 | 29 | 1:46.23 | 14 | 3:36.02 | 19 |
| Albert Burger | Giant Slalom | 1:47.32 | 12 | 1:45.36 | 11 | 3:32.68 | 10 |
| Sepp Ferstl | Slalom | 1:06.32 | 29 | 1:08.02 | 20 | 2:14.34 | 20 |
| Albert Burger | Slalom | 1:03.38 | 17 | 1:06.93 | 16 | 2:10.31 | 15 |
| Christian Neureuther | Slalom | 1:01.70 | 8 | 1:04.86 | 5 | 2:06.56 | 5 |
| Wolfgang Junginger | Slalom | 1:00.95 | 3 | 1:06.13 | 11 | 2:07.08 | 6 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Maria Epple | Downhill | | | | | 1:51.41 | 23 |
| Evi Mittermaier | Downhill | | | | | 1:49.23 | 13 |
| Irene Epple | Downhill | | | | | 1:48.91 | 10 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Downhill | | | | | 1:46.16 | |
| Maria Epple | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:33.02 | 24 |
| Irene Epple | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:31.46 | 15 |
| Evi Mittermaier | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:30.64 | 8 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:29.25 | |
| Monika Berwein | Slalom | 49.17 | 14 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Christa Zechmeister | Slalom | 48.20 | 8 | 45.52 | 6 | 1:33.72 | 7 |
| Rosi Mittermaier | Slalom | 46.77 | 2 | 43.77 | 1 | 1:30.54 | |
| Pamela Behr | Slalom | 46.88 | 1 | 45.63 | 7 | 1:32.31 | 5 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Alois Kanamüller | 1'17:25.26 | 8 | 1'25:25.26 | 34 |
| 20 km | Josef Niedermeier | 1'18:33.63 | 5 | 1'23:33.63 | 26 |
| 20 km | Heinrich Mehringer | 1'16:49.15 | 2 | 1'18:49.15 | 11 |
$^1$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 |
| Heinrich Mehringer Gerd Winkler Josef Keck Claus Gehrke | 4 | 2'04:11.86 | 4 |
$^2$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 | Wolfgang Zimmerer Manfred Schumann | Two-man | 56.09 | 2 | 56.31 | 3 | 56.26 | 2 | 56.33 | 2 | 3:44.99 | |
| FRG-2 | Georg Heibl Fritz Ohlwärter | Two-man | 56.36 | 4 | 56.43 | 4 | 56.59 | 5 | 56.75 | 6 | 3:46.13 | 5 |
| 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 Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann | Four-man | 54.82 | 3 | 54.87 | 3 | 55.53 | 3 | 56.15 | 3 | 3:41.37 | |
| FRG-2 | Georg Heibl Hans Morant Siegfried Radandt Fritz Ohlwärter | Four-man | 54.92 | 4 | 54.98 | 4 | 55.70 | 5 | 56.87 | 8 | 3:42.47 | 5 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Hans Speicher | 48:28.90 | 45 |
| 15 km | Franz Betz | 47:39.15 | 38 |
| 15 km | Georg Kandlinger | 47:20.13 | 31 |
| 15 km | Georg Zipfel | 45:38.10 | 7 |
| 30 km | Walter Demel | 1'37:44.17 | 40 |
| 30 km | Hans Speicher | 1'36:52.45 | 36 |
| 30 km | Franz Betz | 1'34:55.54 | 18 |
| 30 km | Georg Zipfel | 1'34:04.71 | 14 |
| 50 km | Georg Kandlinger | DNF | – |
| 50 km | Franz Betz | DNF | – |
| 50 km | Walter Demel | 2'46:55.95 | 25 |
| 50 km | Georg Zipfel | 2'46:20.30 | 23 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Franz Betz Georg Kandlinger Walter Demel Georg Zipfel | 2'12:38.96 | 9 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Iris Schulze | 18:04.81 | 33 |
| 5 km | Michaela Endler | 17:08.68 | 21 |
| 10 km | Iris Schulze | 33:43.82 | 31 |
| 10 km | Michaela Endler | 32:55.62 | 25 |

## Figure skating
### Women

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Dagmar Lurz | 7 | 10 | 11 | 178.04 | 92 | 10 |
| Isabel De Navarre | 1 | 11 | 12 | 182.42 | 59 | 5 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Corinna Halke Eberhard Rausch | 8 | 8 | 127.37 | 72 | 8 |

## Ice hockey
### First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| West Germany | 5–1 | Switzerland |

### Medal round

| Rank | | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 11 | 10 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 6 |
| 3 | West Germany | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 24 | 4 |
| 4 | Finland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 4 |
| 5 | United States | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 21 | 4 |
| 6 | Poland | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 37 | 2 |
* West Germany 7-4 Poland
* Finland 5-3 West Germany
* USSR 7-3 West Germany
* Czechoslovakia 7-4 West Germany
* West Germany 4-1 USA

### Leading scorers

| Rk | | GP | G | A | Pts |
| 2nd | Erich Kuhnhackl | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 6th | Ernst Kopf | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 10th | Lorenz Funk | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
* Team roster
   * Erich Weißhaupt
   * Anton Kehle
   * Rudolf Thanner
   * Josef Volk
   * Udo Kiessling
   * Stefan Metz
   * Klaus Auhuber
   * Ignaz Berndaner
   * Rainer Phillip
   * Lorenz Funk
   * Wolfgang Boos
   * Ernst Köpf, Sr.
   * Ferenc Vozar
   * Walter Koberle
   * Erich Kühnhackl
   * Alois Schloder
   * Martin Hinterstocker
   * Franz Reindl
* Head coach: Xaver Unsinn

## 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 |
| Stefan Hölzlwimmer | 52.766 | 4 | n/a | ? | n/a | ? | n/a | ? | DNF | – |
| Anton Winkler | 52.755 | 3 | 52.194 | 5 | 52.219 | 7 | 52.352 | 6 | 3:29.520 | 6 |
| Josef Fendt | 52.694 | 2 | 51.933 | 1 | 51.749 | 3 | 51.820 | 2 | 3:28.196 | |
(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 | 42.792 | 2 | 43.097 | 4 | 1:25.889 | |
| Stefan Hölzlwimmer Rudi Größwang | 43.205 | 5 | 43.033 | 3 | 1:26.238 | 4 |

### 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 |
| Elisabeth Demleitner | 43.138 | 7 | 42.535 | 1 | 42.388 | 2 | 42.995 | 7 | 2:51.056 | |
| Monika Scheftschik | 42.863 | 2 | 42.732 | 4 | 42.981 | 9 | 42.964 | 5 | 2:51.540 | 7 |

## 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 Abel | Individual | 74.0 | 74.0 | 196.8 | 14 | 50:29.77 | 197.77 | 14 | 394.57 | 14 |
| Urban Hettich | Individual | 74.5 | 75.0 | 198.9 | 11 | 48:01.55 | 220.00 | 1 | 418.90 | |

## 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 | 75.5 | 106.1 | 76.5 | 109.2 | 215.3 | 23 |
| Alfred Grosche | Normal hill | 80.0 | 115.3 | 80.5 | 116.6 | 231.9 | 10 |
| Alfred Grosche | Large hill | 89.5 | 100.3 | 84.5 | 92.8 | 193.1 | 16 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Horst Freese | DNF | – |
| 1000 m | Horst Freese | 1:21.48 | 9 |
| 1500 m | Herbert Schwarz | 2:03.76 | 12 |
| 5000 m | Herbert Schwarz | 7:52.26 | 15 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug | 44.36 | 12 |
| 1000 m | Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug | 1:29.54 | 5 |