1984 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the 1984 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Sarajevo
Competition venue	Olympic bobsleigh and toboggan run Trebević
Nations	16
Athletes	111 (111 men)
date	10-18 February 1984
decisions	2
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Two bobsleigh competitions were held at the XIV Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984 . The venue was the Olympic bobsleigh and toboggan run on the northern slope of Trebević . It was 1,300 m long, overcame a difference in altitude of 126 m and had 13 curves.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	2	2	-	4th
2	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
	Soviet Union	-	-	1	1

The bobsled run in 2012

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Two-man bobsleigh	Wolfgang Hoppe , Dietmar Schauerhammer	Bernhard Lehmann , Bogdan Musiol	Zintis Ekmanis , Vladimir Alexandrow
Four-man bobsleigh	Wolfgang Hoppe , Roland Wetzig , Dietmar Schauerhammer , Andreas Kirchner	Bernhard Lehmann , Bogdan Musiol , Ingo Voge , Eberhard Weise	Silvio Giobellina , Heinz Stettler , Urs Salzmann , Rico Freiermuth

Results

(all runtimes in seconds, total time in minutes)

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	GDR II: Wolfgang Hoppe , Dietmar Schauerhammer	51.51	51.93	51.06	51.06	3: 25.56
2	GDR	GDR I: Bernhard Lehmann , Bogdan Musiol	51.59	51.94	51.15	51.36	3: 26.04
3	URS	Soviet Union II: Zintis Ekmanis , Vladimir Alexandrow	51.56	52.10	51.24	51.26	3: 26.16
4th	URS	Soviet Union I: Jānis Ķipurs , Aivars Šnepsts	52.06	51.92	51.30	51.14	3: 26.42
5	SUI	Switzerland I: Hans Hiltebrand , Meinrad Müller	51.73	52.21	51.35	51.47	3: 26.76
6th	SUI	Switzerland II: Ralph Pichler , Rico Freiermuth	52.21	52.21	51.84	51.97	3: 29.23
7th	ITA	Italy I: Guerrino Ghedina , Andrea Meneghin	52.40	52.46	51.82	52.41	3: 29.09
8th	GER	Germany I: Anton Fischer , Hans Metzler	52.29	52.25	52.18	52.46	3: 29.18
9	ITA	Italy II: Marco Bellodis , Stefano Ticci	52.69	52.73	52.28	52.32	3: 30.02
10	GBR	Great Britain II: Gomer Lloyd , Peter Brugnani	52.80	52.73	52.26	52.57	3: 30.36
11	GER	Germany II: Andreas Weikenstorfer , Hans-Jürgen Hartmann	52.31	53.05	52.60	52.45	3: 30.41
12	AUT	Austria I: Walter Delle Karth , Johann Lindner	52.61	53.01	52.33	52.64	3: 30.59
13	AUT	Austria II: Peter Kienast , Christian Mark	52.79	52.97	52.42	52.47	3: 30.65

Runs 1 and 2: February 10, 1984 Runs
3 and 4: February 11, 1984

28 bobsleighs at the start, including 27 in the ranking.

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	GDR I: Wolfgang Hoppe , Roland Wetzig , Dietmar Schauerhammer , Andreas Kirchner	49.65	50.18	50.18	50.21	3: 20.22
2	GDR	GDR II: Bernhard Lehmann , Bogdan Musiol , Ingo Voge , Eberhard Weise	49.69	50.33	50.32	50.44	3: 20.78
3	SUI	Switzerland I: Silvio Giobellina , Heinz Stettler , Urs Salzmann , Rico Freiermuth	49.92	50.48	50.49	50.50	3: 21.39
4th	SUI	Switzerland II: Ekkehard Fasser , Rolf Strittmatter , Hans Märchy , Kurt Poletti	50.46	50.60	50.81	51.03	3: 22.90
5	United States	USA I: Jeff Jost , Hal Hoye , Joseph Briski , Thomas Barnes	50.83	50.97	50.89	50.64	3: 23.33
6th	URS	Soviet Union I: Jānis Ķipurs , Aivars Šnepsts , Māris Poikāns , Ivars Bērzups	50.19	50.96	51.19	51.17	3: 23.51
7th	ROU	Romania I: Dorin Degan , Cornel Popescu , Gheorghe Lixandru , Costel Petrariu	50.58	50.88	51.06	51.24	3: 23.76
8th	ITA	Italy II: Guerrino Ghedina , Stefano Ticci , Paolo Scaramuzza , Andrea Meneghin	50.66	50.93	51.00	51.18	3: 23.77
9	FRG	Germany I: Klaus Kopp , Gerhard Oechsle , Günter Neuburger , Hans-Joachim Schumacher	50.71	51.09	51.01	51.34	3: 34.15
10	AUT	Austria I: Walter Delle Karth , Günter Krispel , Ferdinand Grössing , Johann Lindner	50.60	51.14	51.19	51.28	3: 24.21
11	AUT	Austria II: Peter Kienast , Franz Siegl , Gerhard Redl , Christian Mark	50.83	51.27	51.29	51.24	3: 24.63
14th	FRG	Germany II: Anton Fischer , Franz Niessner , Hans Metzler , Uwe Eisenreich	51.08	51.39	51.48	51.36	3: 25.31

Runs 1 and 2: February 17, 1984 Runs
3 and 4: February 18, 1984

24 bobsleighs at the start, all in the ranking.

Web links

• Bob at the 1984 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1984 Winter Olympics (PDF; 11.3 MB)