1998 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Nagano
Competition venue	Spiral
Nations	28
Athletes	156 (156 )
date	14.-21. February 1998
decisions	2
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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

space	country				total
1	Germany	1	-	1	2
2	Italy	1	-	-	1
	Canada	1	-	-	1
4th	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
5	France	-	-	1	1
	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Two-man bobsleigh	Günther Huber , Antonio Tartaglia Pierre Lueders , David MacEachern	-	Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann
Four-man bobsleigh	Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann , Marco Jakobs , Olaf Hampel	Marcel Rohner , Markus Nüssli , Markus Wasser , Beat Seitz	Bruno Mingeon , Emmanuel Hostache , 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
1	ITA	Italy I: Günther Huber , Antonio Tartaglia	54.51	54.29	54.17	54.27	3: 37.24
	CAN	Canada I: Pierre Lueders , David MacEachern	54.56	54.28	54.16	54.24	3: 37.24
3	GER	Germany I: Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann	54.82	54.62	54.11	54.34	3: 37.89
4th	CHE	Switzerland II: Christian Reich , Cédric Grand	54.73	54.56	54.32	54.54	3: 38.15
5	LAT	Latvia I: Sandis Prūsis , Jānis Elsiņš	54.91	54.52	54.29	54.52	3: 38.24
6th	CHE	Switzerland I: Reto Götschi , Guido Acklin	54.71	54.77	54.44	54.35	3: 38.27
7th	United States	USA II: James Herberich , Robert Olesen	54.91	54.70	54.46	54.46	3: 38.53
8th	CZE	Czech Republic II: Pavel Puškár , Jan Kobián	54.99	54.60	54.46	54.54	3: 38.59
9	FRA	France I: Bruno Mingeon , Emmanuel Hostache	54.80	54.65	54.55	54.62	3: 38.62
10	United States	USA I: Brian Shimer , Garrett Hines	54.88	54.79	54.42	54.66	3: 38.75
11	GER	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

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	total
1	GER	Germany II: Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann , Marco Jakobs , Olaf Hampel	52.70	52.90	53.81	2: 39.41
2	CHE	Switzerland I: Marcel Rohner , Markus Nüssli , Markus Wasser , Beat Seitz	53.13	53.15	53.73	2: 40.01
3	FRA	France I: Bruno Mingeon , Emmanuel Hostache , Éric Le Chanony , Max Robert	53.13	53.30	53.63	2: 40.06
	GBR	Great Britain I: Sean Olsson , Dean Ward , Courtney Rumbolt , Paul Attwood	52.77	53.58	53.71	2: 40.06
5	United States	USA I: Brian Shimer , Nathan Minton , Randy Jones , Garreth Hines	52.93	53.42	53.73	2: 40.08
6th	LAT	Latvia I: Sandis Prūsis , Egils Bojārs , Jānis Ozols , Jānis Elsiņš	52.98	53.50	53.78	2: 40.26
7th	CHE	Switzerland II: Christian Reich , Steve Anderhub , Thomas Handschin , Cédric Grand	52.88	53.47	53.93	2: 40.28
8th	GER	Germany I: Harald Czudaj , Torsten Voss , Steffen Görmer , Alexander Szelig	53.12	53.50	53.70	2: 40.32
9	CAN	Canada I: Pierre Lueders , Ricardo Greenidge , Jack Pyc , David MacEachern	53.14	53.44	53.81	2: 40.39
	AUT	Austria I: Hubert Schösser , Peter Leismüller , Erwin Arnold , Martin Schützenauer	53.10	53.50	53.79	2: 40.39
18th	AUT	Austria II: Kurt Einberger , Thomas Bachler , Georg Kuttner , Michael Müller	53.92	53.83	54.39	2: 42.14

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)