Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Bobsleigh at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games |
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Venue | The Spiral |
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The 1998 Winter Olympic Games bobsleigh results
Two-man
Huber lead Lueders by 0.05 seconds after the first run. Leuders picked up 0.02 seconds in the next two runs. Prior to the start of the fourth run, Lueders turned to Huber and asked "Can you imagine if we tied this thing?" After the fourth run, Tartaglia stated "In the end, it felt like were friends who had accomplished something together."
Four-man
Medal |
Team |
Time |
Gold |
Germany II (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Marco Jakobs, Olaf Hampel) |
2:39.41 |
Silver |
Switzerland I (Marcel Rohner, Markus Nüssli, Markus Wasser, Beat Seitz) |
2:40.01 |
Bronze |
Great Britain I (Sean Olsson, Dean Ward, Courtney Rumbolt, Paul Attwood) |
2:40.06 |
Bronze |
France I (Bruno Mingeon, Emanuel Hostache, Éric Le Chanony, Max Robert) |
2:40.06 |
5 |
United States I (Brian Shimer, Chip Minton, Randy Jones, Garreth Hines) |
2:40.08 |
6 |
Latvia I (Sandis Prusis, Egils Bojars, Janis Ozols, Janis Elsins) |
2:40.26 |
7 |
Switzerland II (Christian Reich, Steve Anderhub, Thomas Handschin, Cédric Grand) |
2:40.28 |
8 |
Germany I (Harald Czudaj, Torsten Voss, Steffen Görmer, Alexander Szelig) |
2:40.32 |
The second run on the first day of events was cancelled to weather while both runs on the second day were contested.
Medal table
References