Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Four-man
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Four-man; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Spiral
Dates	February 20 — 21
Competitors	128 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:39.41
Medalists
	← 1994 2002 →

The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 22 and 23 February, at Spiral.^[1] Weather led to the cancellation of the second run on the opening day, meaning the competition had three total runs.^[2]

Results[edit]

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Rank	Country	Athletes	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total
	Germany (GER-2)	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	52.70	52.90	53.81	2:39.41
	Switzerland (SUI-1)	Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz	53.13	53.15	53.73	2:40.01
	Great Britain	Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood	52.77	53.58	53.71	2:40.06
	France	Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert	53.13	53.30	53.63	2:40.06
5	United States (USA-1)	Brian Shimer Chip Minton Randy Jones Garrett Hines	52.93	53.42	53.73	2:40.08
6	Latvia	Sandis Prūsis Egils Bojārs Jānis Ozols Jānis Elsiņš	52.98	53.50	53.78	2:40.26
7	Switzerland (SUI-2)	Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Thomas Handschin Cédric Grand	52.88	53.47	53.93	2:40.28
8	Germany (GER-1)	Harald Czudaj Torsten Voss Steffen Görmer Alexander Szelig	53.12	53.50	53.70	2:40.32
9	Canada (CAN-1)	Pierre Lueders Ricardo Greenidge Jack Pyc Dave MacEachern	53.14	53.44	53.81	2:40.39
9	Austria (AUT-1)	Hubert Schösser Peter Leismüller Erwin Arnold Martin Schützenauer	53.10	53.50	53.79	2:40.39
11	Canada (CAN-2)	Chris Lori Ian Danney Matt Hindle Ben Hindle	53.52	53.69	53.93	2:41.14
12	United States (USA-2)	Jim Herberich Darrin Steele John Kasper Robert Olesen	53.74	53.72	53.81	2:41.27
13	Czech Republic	Pavel Puškár Peter Kondrát Pavel Polomský Jan Kobián	53.61	53.80	53.88	2:41.29
14	Italy (ITA-1)	Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia Massimiliano Rota Marco Menchini	53.84	53.68	53.91	2:41.43
15	Japan (JPN-1)	Naomi Takewaki Hiroaki Ohishi Takashi Ohori Masanori Inoue	53.73	53.87	53.95	2:41.55
16	Japan (JPN-2)	Toshio Wakita Yasuo Nakamura Toshiya Onoda Shinji Aoto	54.03	53.66	54.28	2:41.97
17	Norway	Arnfinn Kristiansen Jørn Stian Dahl Peter Kildal Dagfinn Aarskog	53.96	53.78	54.33	2:42.07
18	Austria (AUT-2)	Kurt Einberger Thomas Bachler Georg Kuttner Michael Müller	53.92	53.83	54.39	2:42.14
19	Russia	Pavel Shcheglovsky Aleksey Seliverstov Vladislav Posedkin Konstantin Dyomin	53.72	53.95	54.71	2:42.38
20	Italy (ITA-2)	Fabrizio Tosini Andrea Pais de Libera Enrico Costa Sergio Chianella	54.07	54.09	54.86	2:43.02
21	Jamaica	Dudley Stokes Winston Watt Chris Stokes Wayne Thomas	54.41	54.55	54.80	2:43.76
22	Poland	Tomasz Żyła Dawid Kupczyk Krzysztof Sieńko Tomasz Gatka	54.71	54.45	54.63	2:43.79
23	Australia	Jason Giobbi Scott Walker Ted Polglaze Adam Barclay	54.72	54.93	55.23	2:44.88
24	Hungary	Nicholas Frankl Péter Pallai Zsolt Zsombor Bertalan Pintér	55.16	54.82	54.94	2:44.92
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Zoran Sokolović Nihad Mameledzija Edin Krupalija Mario Franjić	55.26	55.11	55.30	2:45.67
26	Chinese Taipei	Sun Kuang-ming Duh Maw-sheng Chang Mau-san Cheng Jin-shan	55.30	55.13	55.52	2:45.95
27	Romania	Florian Enache Marian Chițescu Iulian Păcioianu Mihai Dumitraşcu	55.01	55.37	55.68	2:46.06
28	Monaco	Albert, Prince Grimaldi Pascal Camia Jean-François Calmes Gilbert Bessi	55.58	55.70	55.86	2:47.14
29	Virgin Islands	Keith Sudziarski Christian Brown Paul Zar Jeff Kromenhoek	55.80	55.52	55.84	2:47.16
30	Ireland	Jeff Pamplin Simon Linscheid Garry Power Terry McHugh	55.79	55.57	55.87	2:47.23
31	Greece	Greg Sebald Anastasios Papakonstantinou Peter Kolotouros John-Andrew Kambanis	55.94	56.18	56.14	2:48.26
-	Puerto Rico	Liston Bochette Jorge Bonnet José Ferrer Joseph Keosseian	56.45	55.96	DQ	-

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
^ "Bobsleigh at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2018.

External links[edit]

Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (1998). "Bobsleigh: Two-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 159–60.

[OfficialReport-1] "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved June 18, 2016.

[SR-2] "Bobsleigh at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2018.

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