Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Two-man explained

Event:Two-man
Games:1998 Winter
Venue:Spiral
Dates:February 14 — 15
Competitors:76
Nations:24
Win Value:3:37.24
Gold:
Günther Huber, Antonio Tartaglia
Gold2:
Pierre Lueders, Dave MacEachern
Bronze:
Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann
Prev:1994
Next:2002

The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 14 and 15 February, at Spiral.[1] [2] 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."

Results

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Rank Country AthletesRun 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Günther Huber
Antonio Tartaglia
54.51 54.29 54.17 54.27 3:37.24
Pierre Lueders
Dave MacEachern
54.56 54.28 54.16 54.24 3:37.24
Christoph Langen
Markus Zimmermann
54.82 54.62 54.11 54.34 3:37.89
4 Christian Reich
Cédric Grand
54.73 54.56 54.32 54.54 3:38.15
5 Sandis Prūsis
Jānis Elsiņš
54.91 54.52 54.29 54.52 3:38.24
6 Reto Götschi
Guido Acklin
54.71 54.77 54.44 54.35 3:38.27
7 Jim Herberich
Robert Olesen
54.91 54.70 54.46 54.46 3:38.53
8 Pavel Puškár
Jan Kobián
54.99 54.60 54.46 54.54 3:38.59
9 Bruno Mingeon
Emmanuel Hostache
54.80 54.65 54.55 54.62 3:38.62
10 Brian Shimer
Garrett Hines
54.88 54.79 54.42 54.66 3:38.75
11 Dirk Wiese
Marco Jakobs
54.83 54.66 54.63 54.76 3:38.88
12 Chris Lori
Jack Pyc
54.76 54.72 54.71 54.79 3:38.98
13 Éric Alard
Éric Le Chanony
55.25 54.75 54.73 54.58 3:39.31
14 Fabrizio Tosini
Enrico Costa
55.07 54.79 54.80 54.95 3:39.61
15 Sean Olsson
Lenox Paul
55.24 55.12 54.85 54.73 3:39.94
16 Pavel Shcheglovsky
Konstantin Dyomin
55.41 55.09 54.84 54.97 3:40.31
17 Naomi Takewaki
Hiroaki Ohishi
55.31 55.24 55.20 54.96 3:40.71
18 Rodžers Lodziņš
Māris Rozentāls
55.34 55.25 55.06 55.10 3:40.75
19 Hiroshi Suzuki
Masanori Inoue
55.47 55.10 55.19 55.04 3:40.80
20 Lee Johnston
Eric Sekwalor
55.51 55.19 55.16 55.02 3:40.88
21 Yevgeny Popov
Oleg Petrov
55.53 55.37 55.25 55.31 3:41.46
22 Jason Giobbi
Adam Barclay
55.56 55.47 55.26 55.31 3:41.60
23 Yuriy Panchuk
Oleh Polyvach
55.47 55.36 55.52 55.47 3:41.82
24 Gilbert Bessi
Jean-François Calmes
55.89 55.86 55.92 55.87 3:43.54
25 Paul Neagu
Gabriel Tătaru
56.38 56.10 55.54 55.64 3:43.66
26 Florian Enache
Mihai Dumitraşcu
56.03 55.86 55.97 55.87 3:43.73
27 Jeff Pamplin
Terry McHugh
56.32 56.05 55.99 55.96 3:44.32
28 Alan Henderson
Angus Ross
56.29 56.28 56.12 55.97 3:44.66
29 Devon Harris
Michael Morgan
56.56 56.52 56.36 56.30 3:45.74
30 Greg Sebald
John-Andrew Kambanis
56.62 57.13 56.45 56.37 3:46.57
31 Zoran Sokolović
Ognjen Sokolović
57.36 56.62 56.32 56.31 3:46.61
32 Gregory Sun
Curtis Harry
56.74 56.78 56.73 56.40 3:46.65
33 Zachary Zoller
Jeff Kromenhoek
56.77 56.90 56.71 56.82 3:47.20
34 Sun Kuang-ming
Cheng Jin-shan
56.84 56.86 56.71 56.93 3:47.34
35 Peter Donohoe
Simon Linscheid
57.03 57.26 56.57 56.59 3:47.45
36 Keith Sudziarski
Todd Schultz
57.06 57.10 56.96 57.19 3:48.31
- Jirí Dzmura
Pavel Polomský
55.30 55.11 DNS - -
- John Amabile
Joseph Keosseian
57.35 57.69 DSQ - -
- Herbert Schoesser
Georg Kuttner
DNS - - - -

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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: Men's Two . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202028/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/BOB/mens-two.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 29 April 2018 . Sports Reference.