Olympic Winter Games 2002 / Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Park City
Competition venue	Utah Olympic Park
Nations	34
Athletes	195 (165 , 30 )
date	16.-23. February 2002
decisions	3
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At the XIX. During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , three bobsleigh competitions were held. The venue was the Utah Olympic Park . For the first time women also took part in Olympic bobsleigh competitions.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Germany	2	1	1	4th
2	United States	1	1	1	3
3	Switzerland	-	1	1	2

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Two-man bobsleigh men	Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann	Christian Reich , Steve Anderhub	Martin Annen , Beat Hefti
4-man bobsleigh men	André Lange , Carsten Embach , Enrico Kühn , Kevin Kuske	Todd Hays , Garrett Hines , Bill Schuffenhauer , Randy Jones	Brian Shimer , Dan Steels , Doug Sharp , Mike Kohn
Two-man bobsleigh women	Jill Bakken , Vonetta Flowers	Sandra Kiriasis , Ulrike Holzner	Susi Erdmann , Nicole Herschmann

Results men

(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GER	Germany I: Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann	47.54	47.52	47.44	47.61	3: 10.11
2	SUI	Switzerland I: Christian Reich , Steve Anderhub	47.52	47.53	47.45	47.70	3: 10.20
3	SUI	Switzerland II: Martin Annen , Beat Hefti	47.56	47.64	47.73	47.69	3: 10.62
4th	United States	USA I: Todd Hays , Garrett Hines	47.71	47.70	47.61	47.63	3: 10.65
5	CAN	Canada I: Pierre Lueders , Giulio Zardo	47.67	47.70	47.65	47.71	3: 10.73
6th	GER	Germany II: René Spies , Franz Sagmeister	47.77	47.69	47.61	47.77	3: 10.84
7th	AUT	Austria I: Wolfgang Stampfer , Martin Schützenauer	47.91	47.78	47.72	47.75	3: 11.16
8th	ITA	Italy I: Günther Huber , Antonio Tartaglia	47.84	47.88	47.92	48.00	3: 11.64
9	United States	USA II: Brian Shimer , Darrin Steele	47.92	47.99	48.07	47.95	3: 11.93
10	GBR	Great Britain I: Lee Johnston , Marcus Adam	48.04	48.16	48.05	48.02	3: 12.27

Runs 1 and 2: February 16, 2002 Runs
3 and 4: February 17, 2002

37 bobsleighs from 27 countries, all rated.

Four-man bobsleigh

Award ceremony of the four-bob competition (top, orange GER II; top and middle, blue USA I; front, sitting, blue USA II.)

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GER	Germany II: André Lange , Carsten Embach , Enrico Kühn , Kevin Kuske	46.71	46.64	46.84	47.32	3: 07.51
2	United States	USA I: Todd Hays , Garrett Hines , Bill Schuffenhauer , Randy Jones	46.65	46.61	47.22	47.33	3: 07.81
3	United States	USA II: Brian Shimer , Dan Steels , Doug Sharp , Mike Kohn	46.83	46.82	46.98	47.23	3: 07.86
4th	SUI	Switzerland I: Martin Annen , Silvio Schaufelberger , Beat Hefti , Cédric Grand	46.72	46.63	47.11	47.49	3: 07.95
5	SUI	Switzerland II: Christian Reich , Steve Anderhub , Guido Acklin , Urs Aeberhard	46.71	46.63	47.33	47.62	3: 08.29
6th	FRA	France I: Bruno Mingeon , Éric Le Chanony , Christophe Fouquet , Alexandre Arbez	46.92	46.86	47.25	47.53	3: 08.56
7th	LAT	Latvia I: Sandis Prūsis , Mārcis Rullis , Jānis Silarājs , Jānis Ozols	46.99	46.82	47.60	47.65	3: 09.06
8th	RUS	Russia I: Yevgeny Popov , Pyotr Makarchuk , Sergei Golubow , Dmitri Stepuschkin	47.14	46.98	47.45	47.58	3: 09.15
9	CAN	Canada I: Pierre Lueders , Ken Leblanc , Giulio Zardo , Pascal Caron	47.12	46.97	47.41	47.67	3: 09.17
10	FRA	France II: Bruno Thomas , Michel André , Thibault Giroud , Philippe Paviot	46.88	47.03	47.47	47.82	3: 09.20
13	AUT	Austria I: Wolfgang Stampfer , Michael Müller , Klaus Seelos , Martin Schützenauer	47.19	47.27	47.51	47.60	3: 09.57

Runs 1 and 2: February 22, 2002 Runs
3 and 4: February 23, 2002

33 bobsleighs from 26 countries at the start, 29 of them in the ranking Disqualified u. a .: Germany I ( Christoph Langen , Markus Zimmermann , Franz Sagmeister , Stefan Barucha ).

Results women

Two-man bobsleigh

Jill Bakken (left) and Vonetta Flowers

space	country	Sportswomen	1st run	2nd run	total
1	United States	USA II: Jill Bakken , Vonetta Flowers	48.81	48.95	1: 37.76
2	GER	Germany I: Sandra Prokoff , Ulrike Holzner	49.10	48.96	1: 38.06
3	GER	Germany II: Susi Erdmann , Nicole Herschmann	49.19	49.10	1: 38.29
4th	SUI	Switzerland I: Françoise Burdet , Katharina Sutter	49.28	49.06	1: 38.34
5	United States	USA I: Jean Racine , Gea Johnson	49.31	49.42	1: 38.73
6th	NED	Netherlands I: Eline Jurg , Nannet Kiemel	49.64	49.54	1: 39.18
7th	ITA	Italy I: Gerda Weißensteiner , Antonella Bellutti	49.66	49.55	1: 39.21
8th	RUS	Russia I: Viktoria Tokowaja , Kristina Bader	49.72	49.55	1: 39.27
9	CAN	Canada I: Viktoria Tokowaja , Kristina Bader	49.60	49.75	1: 39.35
10	NED	Netherlands II: Viktoria Tokowaja , Kristina Bader	49.70	49.67	1: 39.37

Date: February 19, 2002

15 bobsleighs from 11 countries at the start, all in the ranking.

Web links

Commons : Bobsledding at the 2002 Winter Games  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bob at the Olympic Games 2002 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 2002 Winter Olympics (PDF; 17.7 MB)