Two-man bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 31 January and 1 February at Bob und Rodelbahn Igls, Innsbruck, Austria. This event was last run at the 1956 Winter Olympics as bobsleigh was not part of the 1960 games.
The winning athletes were those who posted the shortest total time over four separate runs. British duo Anthony NashRobin Thomas Dixon took gold, the first medal of any kind on this event for Great Britain. Taking silver and bronze were the two Italian crews.
Results Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Behind Anthony Nash Robin Thomas Dixon 1:05.53 1:05.10 1:05.39 1:05.88 4:21.90 — Sergio Zardini Romano Bonagura 1:05.63 1:05.13 1:05.21 1:06.05 4:22.02 +0.12 Eugenio Monti Sergio Siorpaes 1:05.94 1:04.90 1:05.41 1:06.38 4:22.63 +0.73 Vic Emery Peter Kirby 1:05.15 1:05.93 1:05.96 1:06.45 4:23.49 +1.59 Larry McKillip Jim Lamy 1:06.17 1:06.34 1:05.84 1:06.25 4:24.60 +2.70 Franz Wörmann Hubert Braun 1:06.87 1:06.42 1:05.17 1:06.24 4:24.70 +2.80 Charlie McDonald Chuck Pandolph 1:05.97 1:05.85 1:06.16 1:07.02 4:25.00 +3.10 Erwin Thaler Josef Nairz 1:05.72 1:06.98 1:06.48 1:06.33 4:25.51 +3.61 Franz Isser Reinhold Durnthaler 1:06.94 1:06.71 1:07.40 1:07.04 4:28.09 +6.19 Hans Zoller Robert Zimmermann 1:06.97 1:06.20 1:07.60 1:07.38 4:28.15 +6.25 John Emery Gordon Currie 1:07.85 1:07.64 1:06.75 1:06.63 4:28.87 +6.97 Kjell Lutteman Heino Freyberg 1:06.81 1:06.99 1:07.93 1:07.20 4:28.93 +7.03 Ion Panţuru Hariton Pașovschi 1:07.74 1:06.97 1:06.92 1:07.47 4:29.10 +7.20 Hans Maurer Rupert Grasegger 1:06.72 1:07.76 1:06.92 1:08.37 4:29.77 +7.87 Alexandru Oancea Constantin Cotacu 1:07.31 1:08.93 1:06.75 1:07.26 4:30.25 +8.35 Bill McCowen Andrew Hedges 1:07.47 1:07.73 1:06.52 1:08.95 4:30.67 +8.77 Herbert Kiesel Oskar Lory 1:07.33 1:07.70 1:07.92 1:08.25 4:31.20 +9.30 Héctor Tomasi Fernando Rodríguez 1:07.59 1:09.20 1:07.36 1:07.72 4:31.87 +9.97 Roberto José Bordeu Hernán Agote 1:10.15 1:08.45 1:11.33 1:10.26 4:40.19 +18.29 Jean-Marie Buisset Claude Englebert 1:09.63 1:10.01 Jan-Erik Åkerström Carl-Erik Eriksson 1:08.01 1:11.81
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