1998 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics |
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Competition venue | Spiral |
Nations | 28 |
Athletes | 156 (156 ![]() |
date | 14.-21. February 1998 |
decisions | 2 |
← Lillehammer 1994 |
At the XVIII. The 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano hosted two bobsleigh competitions. The venue was the Spiral bobsleigh and toboggan run in the Asakawa district. The track was 1360 m long, overcame a height difference of 113 m and had 15 curves.
Balance sheet
Medal table
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1 | - | 1 | 2 |
2 |
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1 | - | - | 1 |
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1 | - | - | 1 | |
4th |
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- | 1 | - | 1 |
5 |
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
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Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Two-man bobsleigh |
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Four-man bobsleigh |
![]() Marco Jakobs , Olaf Hampel |
![]() Markus Wasser , Beat Seitz |
![]() Éric Le Chanony , Max Robert Sean Olsson , Dean Ward , Courtney Rumbolt , Paul Attwood ![]() |
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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Italy I: Günther Huber , Antonio Tartaglia | 54.51 | 54.29 | 54.17 | 54.27 | 3: 37.24 |
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Canada I: Pierre Lueders , David MacEachern | 54.56 | 54.28 | 54.16 | 54.24 | 3: 37.24 | |
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Germany I: Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann | 54.82 | 54.62 | 54.11 | 54.34 | 3: 37.89 |
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Switzerland II: Christian Reich , Cédric Grand | 54.73 | 54.56 | 54.32 | 54.54 | 3: 38.15 |
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Latvia I: Sandis Prūsis , Jānis Elsiņš | 54.91 | 54.52 | 54.29 | 54.52 | 3: 38.24 |
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Switzerland I: Reto Götschi , Guido Acklin | 54.71 | 54.77 | 54.44 | 54.35 | 3: 38.27 |
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USA II: James Herberich , Robert Olesen | 54.91 | 54.70 | 54.46 | 54.46 | 3: 38.53 |
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Czech Republic II: Pavel Puškár , Jan Kobián | 54.99 | 54.60 | 54.46 | 54.54 | 3: 38.59 |
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France I: Bruno Mingeon , Emmanuel Hostache | 54.80 | 54.65 | 54.55 | 54.62 | 3: 38.62 |
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USA I: Brian Shimer , Garrett Hines | 54.88 | 54.79 | 54.42 | 54.66 | 3: 38.75 |
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Germany II: Dirk Wiese , Marco Jakobs | 54.83 | 54.66 | 54.63 | 54.76 | 3: 38.88 |
Runs 1 and 2: February 14, 1998 Runs
3 and 4: February 15, 1998
38 bobsleighs from 24 countries, 36 of them in the rating.
Four-man bobsleigh
1st run: February 20, 1998
2nd and 3rd run: February 21, 1998
32 bobsleighs from 25 countries, including 31 in the rating. Bad weather meant that the second run had to be canceled on the opening day; there were only three runs.
Web links
- Bob at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1998 Winter Olympics (PDF; 24.4 MB)