1992 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics
information
venue	La Plagne
Competition venue	Piste de la Plagne
Nations	25th
Athletes	159 (159 )
date	15-22 February 1992
decisions	2
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At the XVI. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , two bobsleigh competitions were held. The venue was the Piste de la Plagne in the winter sports resort of La Plagne .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Switzerland	1	-	1	2
2	Austria	1	-	-	1
3	Germany	-	2	1	3

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Two-man bobsleigh	Gustav Weder , Donat Acklin	Rudi Lochner , Markus Zimmermann	Christoph Langen , Günther Eger
Four-man bobsleigh	Ingo Appelt , Harald Winkler , Gerhard Haidacher , Thomas Schroll	Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol , Axel Kühn , René Hannemann	Gustav Weder , Donat Acklin , Lorenz Schindelholz , Curdin Morell

Results

(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	SUI	Switzerland I: Gustav Weder , Donat Acklin	60.49	60.97	60.84	60.96	4: 03.26
2	GER	Germany I: Rudi Lochner , Markus Zimmermann	60.69	61.00	60.90	60.96	4: 03.55
3	GER	Germany II: Christoph Langen , Günther Eger	60.33	61.06	61.14	61.10	4: 03.63
4th	AUT	Austria I: Ingo Appelt , Thomas Schroll	60.46	60.87	61.09	61.25	4: 03.67
5	ITA	Italy I: Günther Huber , Stefano Ticci	60.36	60.87	61.08	61.41	4: 03.72
6th	GBR	Great Britain I: Mark Tout , Lenox Paul	60.19	61.36	61.18	61.12	4: 03.85
7th	United States	USA I: Brian Shimer , Herschel Walker	60.10	61.10	61.44	61.29	4: 03.93
8th	AUT	Austria II: Gerhard Rainer , Thomas Bachler	60.33	61.20	61.18	61.35	4: 04.06
9	United States	USA I: Brian Shimer , Herschel Walker	60.34	61.27	61.22	61.38	4: 04.21
10	SUI	Switzerland II: Christian Meili , Christian Reich	60.23	61.31	61.44	61.23	4: 04.21

Runs 1 and 2: February 15, 1992 Runs
3 and 4: February 16, 1992

46 bobsleighs at the start, all in the ranking.

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	AUT	Austria I: Ingo Appelt , Harald Winkler , Gerhard Haidacher , Thomas Schroll	57.74	58.85	58.52	58.79	3: 53.90
2	GER	Germany I: Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol , Axel Kühn , René Hannemann	58.00	58.52	58.68	58.72	3: 53.92
3	SUI	Switzerland I: Gustav Weder , Donat Acklin , Lorenz Schindelholz , Curdin Morell	57.97	58.78	58.59	58.79	3: 54.13
4th	CAN	Canada I: Chris Lori , Ken Leblanc , Cal Langford , David MacEachern	58.00	58.71	58.66	58.87	3: 54.24
5	SUI	Switzerland II: Christian Meili , Bruno Gerber , Christian Reich , Gerold Löffler	58.15	58.75	58.59	58.89	3: 54.38
6th	GER	Germany II: Harald Czudaj , Tino Bonk , Axel Lang , Alexander Szelig	58.54	58.55	58.62	58.71	3: 54.42
7th	GBR	Great Britain I: Mark Tout , George Farrell , Paul Field , Lenox Paul	58.49	58.87	58.73	58.80	3: 54.89
8th	FRA	France I: Christophe Flacher , Claude Dasse , Thierry Tribondeau , Gabriel Fourmigue	58.45	58.79	58.78	58.89	3: 54.91
9	United States	USA I: Randy Will , Joe Sawyer , Karlos Kirby , Chris Coleman	58.57	58.71	58.75	58.89	3: 54.92
10	AUT	Austria II: Gerhard Rainer , Thomas Bachler , Carsten Nentwig , Martin Schützenauer	58.27	58.85	59.08	58.81	3: 55.01

Runs 1 and 2: February 21, 1992 Runs
3 and 4: February 22, 1992

1st run: 1) AUT I 57.74; 2) SUI I 57.97; 3) ex aequo GER I & CAN I 58.00; 5) SUI II 58.15.
2nd run: 1) GER I 58.52; 2) GER II 58.55; 3) CAN 58.71; 6) SUI I 58.78; 10) AUT I 58.85.
3rd run: 1) AUT I 58.52; 3) ex aequo SUI I & SUI II 58.59; 6) CAN I 58.66; 7) GER I 58.68.
4th run: 1) GER II 58.71; 2) GER I 58.72; 3) ex aequo AUT I & SUI I 58.79; 7 CAN I 58.87.

After the first run, Austria I led with 26 hundredths of a second (but on SUI I), but after the first day the Appelt sled was 7 hundredths behind GER I (116.52), which compared to Appelt (116.59) and Neither (116,75) had turned the tables. In the third run another lead for Appelt (with an addition of 175.11 to 175.20 compared to Hoppe) - in the fourth run Appelt saved two from a 9-hundredth lead.

31 bobsleighs at the start, 29 of them in the ranking.

Web links

• Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1992 Winter Olympics (PDF; 13.3 MB)