1988 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics |
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venue | Calgary |
Competition venue | Canada Olympic Park |
Nations | 23 |
Athletes | 135 (135 ) |
date | 20.-28. February 1988 |
decisions | 2 |
← Sarajevo 1984 |
At the XV. During the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , two bobsleigh competitions were held. The venue was the Canada Olympic Park . The route was 1475 m long, overcame a height difference of 120 m and had 14 curves.
Bobsleigh has been on the IOC's hit list since the 1978 IOC session in Athens . With 12: 2 votes, the discipline was placed on a provisional basis. The reason for this was that the number of operating countries had shrunk to a minimum.
The weather conditions during the bobsleigh competitions were very bad. The athletes were troubled by strong gusts of wind from the Chinook . This blew sand into the track, especially during the first run of the two-man bobsleigh competition. While the low starting numbers still had good conditions, the drivers with higher starting numbers had no chance despite the clean drive, including many favorites. Among the disadvantaged was the GDR pilot Wolfgang Hoppe, who started out as a top favorite . The results of the competitions were also falsified by enormous temperature fluctuations.
The Jamaican bobsleigh team's first Olympic appearance served as inspiration for the comedy film Cool Runnings, which appeared six years later .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Soviet Union | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
2 | Switzerland | 1 | - | - | 1 |
3 | GDR | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Two-man bobsleigh | Jānis Ķipurs , Vladimir Koslow | Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol | Bernhard Lehmann , Mario Hoyer |
Four-man bobsleigh |
Ekkehard Fasser , Kurt Meyer , Marcel Fässler , Werner Stocker |
Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol , Dietmar Schauerhammer , Ingo Voge |
Jānis Ķipurs , Guntis Osis , Juris Tone , Vladimir Koslow |
Results
(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)
Two-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | 1st run | 2nd run | 3rd run | 4th run | total |
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1 | URS | Soviet Union I: Jānis Ķipurs , Vladimir Koslow | 57.43 | 58.05 | 59.52 | 58.48 | 3: 53.48 |
2 | GDR | GDR I: Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol | 57.06 | 59.26 | 59.45 | 58.42 | 3: 54.19 |
3 | GDR | GDR II: Bernhard Lehmann , Mario Hoyer | 57.65 | 58.67 | 59.59 | 58.73 | 3: 54.64 |
4th | SUI | Switzerland II: Gustav Weder , Donat Acklin | 58.01 | 58.88 | 60.12 | 59.05 | 3: 56.06 |
5 | AUT | Austria I: Ingo Appelt , Harald Winkler | 57.22 | 59.83 | 60.00 | 59.44 | 3: 56.49 |
6th | ROME | Romania I: Csaba Nagy Lakatos , Costel Petrariu | 58.83 | 59.21 | 59.55 | 59.02 | 3: 56.52 |
7th | FRG | Germany I: Anton Fischer , Christoph Langen | 57.58 | 59.70 | 60.06 | 59.28 | 3: 56.62 |
8th | AUT | Austria II: Peter Kienast , Christian Mark | 58.19 | 58.96 | 60.48 | 59.28 | 3: 56.91 |
9 | URS | Soviet Union II: Zintis Ekmanis , Aivars Trops | 57.95 | 59.12 | 60.72 | 59.13 | 3: 56.92 |
10 | CAN | Canada I: Greg Haydenluck , Lloyd Guss | 57.36 | 59.90 | 60.11 | 59.60 | 3: 56.97 |
11 | FRG | Germany II: Michael Sperr , Rolf Müller | 57.47 | 60.09 | 60.42 | 59.86 | 3: 57.84 |
21st | SUI | Switzerland I: Hans Hiltebrand , André Kiser | 58.74 | 60.58 | 61.51 | 60.38 | 4: 01.04 |
Runs 1 and 2: February 20, 1988 Runs
3 and 4: February 22, 1988
41 bobsleighs from 23 countries, 38 of them in the rating. There were even 48 bobsleighs in the training sessions, but the reduced field of participants also caused problems.
In GDR 1 there was a change of brakes after Wolfgang Hoppe's standard partner Dietmar Schauerhammer was not in top form due to an injury. The start was scheduled for 10 a.m. on both competition days. Storm wind initially forced an interruption and finally the termination of the third run on February 21. The first two runs were therefore a «game of chance». Hoppe said that he was “lucky to be able to start at the beginning of the first run. Dust, sand and dirt were on the track in the second run ». After two runs, Ķipurs led the GDR sledges Hoppe and Lehmann at the same time (each 0.84 s back).
Ķipur's gold medal was the first (and only) in this discipline for the Soviet Union. Hoppe set the best time in runs 1, 3 and 4, but only achieved eighth place in the second run (1.21 s behind Ķipurs). On the other hand, Hans Hiltebrand had only driven 21st time in the first run.
Four-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | 1st run | 2nd run | 3rd run | 4th run | total |
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1 | SUI | Switzerland I: Ekkehard Fasser , Kurt Meier , Marcel Fässler , Werner Stocker |
56.83 | 57.37 | 55.88 | 57.43 | 3: 47.51 |
2 | GDR | GDR I: Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol , Dietmar Schauerhammer , Ingo Voge |
56.16 | 57.31 | 56.77 | 57.34 | 3: 47.58 |
3 | URS | Soviet Union II: Jānis Ķipurs , Guntis Osis , Juris Tone , Vladimir Koslow |
56.72 | 57.28 | 56.41 | 57.85 | 3: 48.26 |
4th | United States | USA I: Brent Rushlaw , Hal Hoye , Michael Wasko , William White |
56.72 | 57.67 | 56.69 | 57.20 | 3: 48.28 |
5 | URS | Soviet Union I: Māris Poikāns , Olafs Kļaviņš , Ivars Bērzups , Juris Jaudzems |
56.75 | 57.66 | 56.70 | 57.24 | 3: 48.35 |
6th | AUT | Austria I: Peter Kienast , Franz Siegl , Christian Mark , Kurt Teigl |
57.07 | 57.40 | 56.27 | 57.91 | 3: 48.65 |
7th | AUT | Austria II: Ingo Appelt , Josef Muigg , Gerhard Redl , Harald Winkler |
56.93 | 57.51 | 56.41 | 58.10 | 3: 48.95 |
8th | GDR | GDR II: Detlef Richter , Bodo Ferl , Ludwig Jahn , Alexander Szelig |
57.18 | 57.60 | 56.33 | 57.95 | 3: 49.06 |
9 | SUI | Switzerland II: Hans Hiltebrand , Urs Fehlmann , Erwin Fassbind , André Kiser |
56.39 | 57.91 | 57.13 | 57.82 | 3: 49.25 |
10 | ITA | Italy I: Alex Wolf , Pasquale Gesuito , Georg Beikircher , Stefano Ticci |
57.20 | 57.72 | 56.53 | 58.01 | 3: 49.46 |
11 | FRG | Germany I: Anton Fischer , Franz Niessner , Uwe Eisenreich , Christoph Langen |
57.02 | 57.75 | 56.71 | 58.07 | 3: 49.55 |
14th | FRG | Germany II: Michael Sperr , Olaf Hampel , Florian Cruciger , Rolf Müller |
57.58 | 58.04 | 56.41 | 58.14 | 3: 50.17 |
Runs 1 and 2: February 27, 1988 Runs
3 and 4: February 28, 1988
26 bobsleighs from 17 countries, 25 of them in the rating.
The International Bobsleigh Federation wanted to allow a regular race against TV interests by bringing the start times forward, but IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch then threatened to cancel the bobsleigh competitions for 1992.
The preliminary decision was made on Sunday morning in the third run, when Fasser with an early start number and therefore favorable conditions took 0.89 seconds off the leading Hoppe. The temperature, which was lower than on Saturday, on the one hand, and the sun on the other, created new conditions. The artificially cooled route slowed down with each sled. Fasser like Hoppe complained of very deep grooves in the second rounds of Saturday and Sunday. If there were fairer conditions in the four, the start number played a decisive role again.
Web links
- Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1988 Winter Olympics (PDF; 11.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ «Grotesque running should open eyes». In: Sport Zürich, February 24, 1988, p. 15.
- ↑ «Grotesque running should open eyes». In: Sport Zürich, February 24, 1988, p. 15.
- ^ "Olympic Weekend in Calgary". In: Sport Zürich, February 19, 1988, p. 13.
- ^ "Storm wind forced demolition" and "OLYMPIA TOTAL" as well as "Defending champion Wolfgang Hoppe angry". In: Sport Zürich, February 22, 1988, pp. 1, 15 and 16.
- ↑ Gloss: «Iooo stories», 4th contribution . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1988, p. 23 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ "Fasser: Gold thanks to routine and super team". In: Sport Zürich, February 29, 1988, p. 17.