Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics was held at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

The event included competitors from countries with little or no snow.^[1] These countries included Jamaica (whose involvement spurred the movie Cool Runnings), Mexico, and New Zealand. An informal "Caribbean Cup" of such countries was won by New Zealand's Alexander Peterson and Peter Henry, who finished equal twentieth. In the two-man event, the best result from a completely snow-less country was twenty-ninth by Bart Carpentier Alting and Bart Dreschsel of the Netherlands Antilles. Alting also competed in luge, finishing thirty-sixth out of thirty-eight.^[1]

Two-man

Pos	Athlete	Time
01 ! Gold	Soviet Union I (URS) (Jānis Ķipurs and Vladimir Koslov)	3:53.48
02 ! Silver	East Germany I (GDR) (Wolfgang Hoppe and Bogdan Musiol)	3:54.19
03 ! Bronze	East Germany II (GDR) (Bernhard Lehmann and Mario Hoyer)	3:54.64

Four-man

Pos	Team	Time
01 ! Gold	Switzerland I (SUI) (Ekkehard Fasser, Kurt Meier, Marcel Fässler and Werner Stocker)	3:47.51
02 ! Silver	East Germany I (GDR) (Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer, Bogdan Musiol and Ingo Voge)	3:47.58
03 ! Bronze	Soviet Union II (URS) (Jānis Ķipurs, Guntis Osis, Juris Tone and Vladimir Koslov)	3:48.26

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	1	0	1	2
2	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
3	East Germany	0	2	1	3

See also

• Jamaican Bobsled Team

References

• 1988 bobsleigh two-man results
• 1988 bobsleigh four-man results

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