The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was held on 15 and 16 February, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run.

Results

Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Erich Schärer Sepp Benz 61.87 62.76 62.29 62.44 4:09.36 Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt 62.58 62.48 63.31 62.56 4:10.93 Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł 62.39 62.88 62.86 62.95 4:11.08 4 Hans Hiltebrand Walter Rahm 62.37 62.96 63.35 62.64 4:11.32 5 Howard Siler, Jr. Dick Nalley 63.04 63.04 62.65 63.00 4:11.73 6 Brent Rushlaw Joe Tyler 62.90 62.81 62.99 63.42 4:12.12 7 Fritz Sperling Kurt Oberhöller 63.58 63.64 63.13 63.23 4:13.58 8 Peter Hell Heinz Busche 63.87 63.63 62.91 63.33 4:13.74 9 Franz Paulweber Gerd Zaunschirm 63.52 63.67 63.01 63.70 4:13.90 10 Jonnie Woodall John Howell 64.12 64.12 63.65 64.03 4:15.92 11 Dragoș Panaitescu-Rapan Gheorghe Lixandru 63.99 64.30 63.75 64.00 4:16.04 12 Georg Großmann Alexander Wernsdorfer 63.50 64.93 63.85 63.85 4:16.13 13 Joey Kilburn Robert Wilson 64.07 64.27 63.96 63.91 4:16.21 14 Andrea Jory Edmund Lanziner 63.73 64.19 63.97 64.45 4:16.34 15 Carl-Erik Eriksson Kenth Rönn 63.56 64.49 63.22 65.65 4:16.92 16 Giuseppe Soravia Georg Werth 64.75 64.81 64.30 64.31 4:18.17 17 Roger Potter Michael Pugh 64.93 64.77 64.40 64.47 4:18.57 18 Constantin Iancu Constantin Obreja 64.58 64.52 64.76 64.77 4:18.63 19 Yoshimitsu Kadowaki Yuji Funayama 64.62 64.92 64.82 64.30 4:18.66 20 Brian Vachon Serge Cantin 64.66 64.67 64.38 65.05 4:18.76

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