Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Event:	Bobsleigh
Games:	1998 Winter
Venue:	Spiral
Dates:	14–21 February
Competitors:	156
Nations:	28
Prev:	1994
Next:	2002

Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics consisted of two events at Spiral. The competition took place between February 16 and February 23, 1998.^{[1] [2]}

Medal summary

Medal table

Germany led the medal table, with two medals, one gold and one bronze. There had never before been a tie for a medal in Olympic bobsleigh history, but the Nagano Games featured two, one in each event, meaning that three gold medals, and seven medals total, were awarded.

France's bronze medal, as a part of the tie in the four-man event, was the country's first in Bobsleigh at the Olympics.

Events

Two-man	Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern	3:37.24			Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	3:37.89
Four-man	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	2:39.41	Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz	2:40.01	Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert	2:40.06

Participating NOCs

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Twenty-eight nations participated in Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.

External links

• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080226202657/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1998/Vol3_e.pdf . dead . February 26, 2008 . LA84 Foundation . Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee . 1998 . June 18, 2016 .
2. Web site: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417041409/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/BOB/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 29 April 2018 . Sports Reference.