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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

[1]

Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Germany (GER-2) Christoph Langen
Markus Zimmermann
Marco Jakobs
Olaf Hampel
52.70 52.90 53.81 2:39.41
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Switzerland (SUI-1) Marcel Rohner
Markus Nüssli
Markus Wasser
Beat Seitz
53.13 53.15 53.73 2:40.01
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Great Britain Sean Olsson
Dean Ward
Courtney Rumbolt
Paul Attwood
52.77 53.58 53.71 2:40.06
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

  1. ^ 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.
  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.

External links

  • 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.
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