Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Doubles
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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]
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| Venue | Villard-de-Lans | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 18 February 1968 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:35.85 | ||||||||||||
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Results
| Rank[1] | Athletes | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
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 | 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 | - | - |