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The original medalists.

The four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia was held at the Sliding Center Sanki near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia on 22–23 February 2014.[1]

On 24 November 2017, the IOC imposed a life ban on bobsledder Alexandr Zubkov.[2] He was stripped of 2 gold medals (two-man and four-man bobsleigh). On November 27 IOC imposed similar sanctions to members of the same team Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey Negodaylo.[3] On 29 November 2017, IOC also sanctioned Alexander Kasjanov, Ilvir Huzin and Aleksei Pushkarev for doping offences and stripped their team of results.[4] On 18 December 2017, Alexey Voyevoda also received a lifetime ban from the Olympic Games due to doping violations at the 2014 Winter Olympics.[5] The IOC requested that the FIBT modify the results, and the medals were redistributed accordingly.[6]

Records

While the IOC does not consider bobsled times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.

Qualifying teams

A total of 30 teams from 19 NOCs qualified for the event:

Three teams
Two teams
One team

Results

SR = Start Record TR = Track Record

Rank Bib Country Athletes Run 1[7] Run 2[8] Run 3[9] Run 4[10] Total Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) 7  Latvia (LAT-1) Oskars Melbārdis
Arvis Vilkaste
Daumants Dreiškens
Jānis Strenga
55.10 55.13 55.15 55.31 3:40.69 -
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2  United States (USA-1) Steven Holcomb
Steven Langton
Curtis Tomasevicz
Christopher Fogt
54.89 55.47 55.30 55.33 3:40.99 +0.30
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 12  Great Britain (GBR-1) John James Jackson
Bruce Tasker
Stuart Benson
Joel Fearon
55.26 55.27 55.31 55.26 3:41.10 +0.41
4 1  Germany (GER-1) Maximilian Arndt
Alexander Rödiger
Marko Hübenbecker
Martin Putze
54.88
SR & TR
55.47 55.47 55.60 3:41.42 +0.71
5 4  Germany (GER-3) Thomas Florschütz
Kevin Kuske
Joshua Bluhm
Christian Poser
55.06 55.42 55.50 55.53 3:41.51 +0.82
6 11  Switzerland (SUI-1) Beat Hefti
Jürg Egger
Alex Baumann
Thomas Lamparter
55.21 55.34 55.60 55.60 3:41.75 +1.06
7 9  Canada (CAN-2) Lyndon Rush
David Bissett
Lascelles Brown
Neville Wright
55.35 55.43 55.60 55.38 3:41.76 +1.07
8 8  Germany (GER-2) Francesco Friedrich
Gregor Bermbach
Jannis Bäcker
Thorsten Margis
55.15 55.43 55.81 55.41 3:41.80 +1.11
9 14  Netherlands (NED-1) Edwin van Calker
Sybren Jansma
Bror van der Zijde
Arno Klaassen
55.55 55.57 55.82 55.75 3:42.69 +2.00
10 13  United States (USA-2) Nick Cunningham
Johnny Quinn
Justin Olsen
Dallas Robinson
55.61 55.48 55.97 55.64 3:42.70 +2.01
11 5  Canada (CAN-1) Christopher Spring
James McNaughton
Timothy Randall
Bryan Barnett
55.50 56.70 55.88 55.76 3:42.84 +2.15
12 16  Latvia (LAT-2) Oskars Ķibermanis
Helvijs Lūsis
Raivis Broks
Vairis Leiboms
55.68 55.52 55.97 55.81 3:42.98 +2.29
13 15  Russia (RUS-3) Nikita Zakharov
Nikolay Khrenkov
Petr Moiseev
Maxim Mokrousov
55.74 55.53 55.88 55.91 3:43.06 +2.37
14 19  Czech Republic (CZE-1) Jan Vrba
Dominik Dvořák
Dominik Suchý
Michal Vacek
55.95 55.47 55.95 55.80 3:43.17 +2.48
15 22  France (FRA-1) Loïc Costerg
Florent Ribet
Romain Heinrich
Elly Lefort
55.82 55.68 55.91 55.77 3:43.18 +2.49
16 17  Italy (ITA-1) Simone Bertazzo
Samuele Romanini
Simone Fontana
Francesco Costa
55.78 55.73 56.06 55.88 3:43.45 +2.76
17 18  Great Britain (GBR-2) Lamin Deen
Andrew Matthews
John Baines
Ben Simons
55.91 55.60 56.06 55.95 3:43.52 +2.83
18 21  South Korea (KOR-1) Won Yun-Jong
Jun Jung-Lin
Suk Young-Jin
Seo Young-Woo
56.12 55.97 56.25 55.88 3:44.22 +3.53
19 24  Austria (AUT-1) Benjamin Maier
Markus Sammer
Stefan Withalm
Angel Somov
Sebastian Heufler
56.25 56.11 56.27 2:48.63
20 23  Australia (AUS-1) Heath Spence
Duncan Harvey
Gareth Nichols
Lucas Mata
56.20 56.21 56.23 2:48.64
21 30  France (FRA-2) Thibault Godefroy
Vincent Ricard
Jérémy Baillard
Jérémie Boutherin
56.37 56.27 56.35 2:48.99
22 25  Romania (ROU-1) Andreas Neagu
Paul Muntean
Florin Cezar Crăciun
Dănuț Moldovan
Bogdan Laurentiu Otava
56.25 56.16 56.62 2:49.03
23 28  Slovakia (SVK-1) Milan Jagnešák
Lukáš Kožienka
Petr Narovec
Juraj Mokráš
56.56 56.37 56.51 2:49.44
24 20  Japan (JPN-1) Hiroshi Suzuki
Shintaro Sato
Toshiki Kuroiwa
Hisashi Miyazaki
56.41 56.42 56.63 2:49.46
25 29  South Korea (KOR-2) Kim Dong-Hyun
Kim Sik
Kim Kyung-Hyun
Oh Jea-Han
56.98 56.77 56.89 2:50.64
26 27  Brazil (BRA-1) Edson Bindilatti
Edson Martins
Odirlei Pessoni
Fábio Gonçalves Silva
56.86 56.74 57.11 2:50.71
27 10  Canada (CAN-3) Justin Kripps
Cody Sorensen**
Jesse Lumsden
Ben Coakwell**
Luke Demetre
Graeme Rinholm
55.17 59.91* 55.72 2:50.80
DSQ*** 27  Poland (POL-1) Dawid Kupczyk
Michał Kasperowicz
Daniel Zalewski
Paweł Mróz
56.57 56.45 56.47 2:49.49
DSQ**** 3  Russia (RUS-1) Alexandr Zubkov
Dmitry Trunenkov
Alexey Negodaylo
Alexey Voyevoda
54.82 TR 55.37 55.02 55.39 3:40.60
DSQ**** 6  Russia (RUS-2) Alexander Kasjanov
Maxim Belugin
Ilvir Huzin
Aleksei Pushkarev
55.11 55.41 55.29 55.21 3:41.02

*Canada 3 crashed in the heat.[11]
**According to run results Cody Sorensen and Ben Coakwell were replaced in run 3 by Luke Demetre and Graeme Rinholm.
*** Poland were disqualified in 2014 after Daniel Zalewski was banned for doping.[12]
**** Russia 1 and Russia 2 were disqualified in 2019 after a review of doping samples which showed that Alexandr Zubkov, Alexander Kasyanov, Aleksei Pushkarev and Ilvir Khuzin had all tested positive for banned substances and were banned until 2020.[13] On 18 September 2019, NBC Sports and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced the reallocated silver medals were to be awarded at the 2019 USOPC awards ceremony in Los Angeles. [14] The reallocated bronze medals were awarded at the 2019 Team GB Ball in London.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Bobsleigh Schedule and Results". SOOC. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  2. ^ "IOC SANCTIONS FOUR RUSSIAN ATHLETES AS PART OF OSWALD COMMISSION FINDINGS". 24 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ^ "IOC SANCTIONS FIVE RUSSIAN ATHLETES AND PUBLISHES FIRST FULL DECISION AS PART OF THE OSWALD COMMISSION FINDINGS". IOC. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ^ "IOC SANCTIONS THREE RUSSIAN ATHLETES AS PART OF OSWALD COMMISSION FINDINGS". IOC. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Russian bobsledder banned over doping". France 24. 18 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  6. ^ "Olympic Winter Games 2014 4-man Bobsleigh". Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  7. ^ "Run 1 results". Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
  8. ^ "Run 2 results". Archived from the original on 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
  9. ^ "Run 3 results". Archived from the original on 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
  10. ^ "Run 4 results". Archived from the original on 2014-07-06. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
  11. ^ "Canadian bobsled piloted by Justin Kripps crashes during Winter Games heat". The Globe and Mail. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  12. ^ "IOC sanctions Polish bobsledder Daniel Zalewski for failing anti-doping test at Sochi 2014". 10 April 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Four Russian bobsledders banned for doping at 2014 Sochi Olympics". skysports. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  14. ^ "U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, NBC Olympics join together to host Team USA Awards presented by Dow, Best of the Year, on Nov. 19 at Universal Studios". 19 September 2019.
  15. ^ "Great Britain's four-man bobsleigh team finally receive bronze medals". BBC Sport. BBC. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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