Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Doubles

Doubles
at the X Olympic Winter Games
Doubles; at the X Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Villard-de-Lans
Dates	18 February 1968
Competitors	30 from 9 nations
Winning time	1:35.85
Medalists

The doubles luge competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble was held on 18 February, at Villard-de-Lans.^[1] With his win, Thomas Köhler became the first person to win in both men's singles (1964) and doubles.^[2]

Results

Rank^[1]	Athletes	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Total
	Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler	East Germany	47.88	47.97	1:35.85
	Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch	Austria	48.16	48.18	1:36.34
	Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann	West Germany	48.58	48.71	1:37.29
4	Hans Plenk Bernhard Aschauer	West Germany	48.70	48.91	1:37.61
5	Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow	East Germany	48.80	49.01	1:37.81
6	Zbigniew Gawior Ryszard Gawior	Poland	49.01	48.84	1:37.85
7	Josef Feistmantl Wilhelm Biechl	Austria	48.81	49.30	1:38.11
8	Giovanni Graber Enrico Graber	Italy	49.01	49.14	1:38.15
9	Lucjan Kudzia Stanisław Paczka	Poland	49.09	49.08	1:38.17
10	Ernesto Mair Sigisfredo Mair	Italy	49.10	49.57	1:38.67
11	Georges Tresallet Ion Pervilhac	France	49.97	49.29	1:39.26
12	Horst Urban Roland Urban	Czechoslovakia	50.46	50.02	1:40.48
13	Jan Hamřík František Halíř	Czechoslovakia	51.85	50.85	1:42.70
14	Ivar Bjare Jan Nilsson	Sweden	51.04	52.52	1:43.56
-	Mike Hessel Jim Moriarty	United States	DNF	-	-

^ ^a ^b "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
^ "Luge at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Doubles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020.