| Event: | Four-man bobsleigh |
| Games: | 2002 Winter |
| Venue: | Park City, United States |
| Dates: | February 22–23 |
| Competitors: | 135 |
| Nations: | 26 |
| Win Value: | 3:07.51 |
| Gold: | André Lange, Enrico Kühn, Kevin Kuske, Carsten Embach |
| Silver: | Todd Hays, Randy Jones, Bill Schuffenhauer, Garrett Hines |
| Bronze: | Brian Shimer, Mike Kohn, Doug Sharp, Dan Steele |
| Prev: | 1998 |
| Next: | 2006 |
The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City was held on 22 and 23 February, at the Utah Olympic Park Track near Park City.[1] [2]
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.
Prior to this competition, the existing track records for the Utah Olympic Park Track were as follows.
| Type | Date | Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 28 November 1998 | Andre Lange Christoph Heyder Enrico Kühn Lars Behrendt | 4.74 | |
| Run | 25 February 2001 | Andre Lange Lars Behrendt Rene Hoppe Carsten Embach | 46.57 |
The following track records were established during this event.
| Type | Date | Run | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 22 February | 1 | Martin Annen Silvio Schäufelberger Beat Hefti Cédric Grand | 4.73 |
| 22 February | 2 | Martin Annen Silvio Schäufelberger Beat Hefti Cédric Grand | 4.72 |
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| André Lange Enrico Kühn Kevin Kuske Carsten Embach | 46.71 | 46.64 | 46.84 | 47.32 | 3:07.51 | |||
| Todd Hays Randy Jones Bill Schuffenhauer Garrett Hines | 46.65 | 46.61 | 47.22 | 47.33 | 3:07.81 | |||
| Brian Shimer Mike Kohn Doug Sharp Dan Steele | 46.83 | 46.82 | 46.98 | 47.23 | 3:07.86 | |||
| 4 | Martin Annen Silvio Schäufelberger Beat Hefti Cédric Grand | 46.72 | 46.63 | 47.11 | 47.49 | 3:07.95 | ||
| 5 | Bruno Mingeon Éric Le Chanony Christophe Fouquet Alexandre Arbez | 46.92 | 46.86 | 47.25 | 47.53 | 3:08.56 | ||
| 6 | Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Guido Acklin Urs Aeberhard | 46.71 | 46.93 | 47.33 | 47.62 | 3:08.59 | ||
| 7 | Sandis Prusis Marcis Rullis Janis Silarajs Jānis Ozols | 46.99 | 46.82 | 47.60 | 47.65 | 3:09.06 | ||
| 8 | Yevgeny Popov Pyotr Makarchuk Sergey Golubyov Dmitry Styopushkin | 47.14 | 46.98 | 47.45 | 47.58 | 3:09.15 | ||
| 9 | Pierre Lueders Ken LeBlanc Giulio Zardo Pascal Caron | 47.12 | 46.97 | 47.41 | 47.67 | 3:09.17 | ||
| 10 | Bruno Thomas Michel André Thibault Giroud Philippe Paviot | 46.88 | 47.03 | 47.47 | 47.82 | 3:09.20 | ||
| 11 | Neil Scarisbrick Scott Rider Philip Goedluck Dean Ward | 47.09 | 47.05 | 47.44 | 47.79 | 3:09.37 | ||
| 12 | Gatis Guts Intars Dicmanis Maris Rozentals Gunars Bumbulis | 46.99 | 46.99 | 47.80 | 47.66 | 3:09.44 | ||
| 13 | Wolfgang Stampfer Michael Müller Klaus Seelos Martin Schützenauer | 47.19 | 47.27 | 47.51 | 47.60 | 3:09.57 | ||
| 14 | Lee Johnston Phil Harries Dave McCalla Paul Attwood | 47.06 | 47.32 | 47.41 | 47.98 | 3:09.77 | ||
| 15 | Pavel Puškár Milan Studnicka Peter Kondrát Ivo Danilevic Jan Kobián | 47.23 | 47.17 | 47.58 | 47.95 | 3:09.93 | ||
| 16 | Aleksandr Zubkov Aleksey Seliverstov Filipp Yegorov Aleksey Andryunin | 47.26 | 47.09 | 47.76 | 48.04 | 3:10.15 | ||
| 17 | Arend Glas Arnold van Calker Timothy Beck Marcel Welten | 47.15 | 47.18 | 47.82 | 48.23 | 3:10.38 | ||
| 18 | Tomasz Zyla Dawid Kupczyk Krzysztof Sienko Tomasz Gatka | 47.22 | 47.48 | 47.93 | 48.10 | 3:10.73 | ||
| 19 | Fabrizio Tosini Andrea Pais de Libera Massimiliano Rota Giona Cividino | 47.48 | 47.40 | 48.11 | 47.97 | 3:10.96 | ||
| 20 | Hiroshi Suzuki Shinji Miura Shinji Doigawa Masanori Inoue | 47.65 | 47.46 | 47.92 | 48.14 | 3:11.17 | ||
| 21 | Florian Enache Adrian Duminicel Iulian Pacioianu Teodor Demetriad | 47.59 | 47.66 | 48.19 | 48.22 | 3:11.66 | ||
| 22 | Oleh Polyvach Bohdan Zamostianyk Oleksandr Ivanyshyn Yuriy Zhuravskiy | 48.03 | 48.09 | 48.76 | 48.89 | 3:13.77 | ||
| 23 | Nicholas Frankl Márton Gyulai Péter Pallai Bertalan Pintér Zsolt Zsombor | 48.26 | 48.18 | 49.03 | 49.08 | 3:14.55 | ||
| 24 | Milan Jagnešák Brano Prieložný Marián Vanderka Róbert Krestanko | 47.80 | 47.88 | 51.10 | 48.64 | 3:15.42 | ||
| 25 | Boris Radenovic Dalibor Ðurdic Rašo Vucinic Vuk Radenovic | 48.66 | 48.79 | 48.97 | 49.13 | 3:15.55 | ||
| 26 | Ivan Šola Boris Lovrić Ðulijano Koludra Niki Drpić (Runs 1–3) Igor Boraska (Run 4) | 48.84 | 48.45 | 49.17 | 49.68 | 3:16.14 | ||
| 27 | Eric Maleson Matheus Inocêncio Edson Bindilatti Cristiano Rogério Paes | 48.91 | 48.76 | 49.44 | 49.62 | 3:16.73 | ||
| 28 | Albert, Prince Grimaldi Charles Oula Sébastien Gattuso Patrice Servelle Jean-François Calmes | 47.82 | 48.02 | 52.44 | 48.91 | 3:17.19 | ||
| 29 | Chen Chin-san Chen Chien-li Lin Ruei-ming Chen Chien-sheng | 48.86 | 49.19 | 50.03 | 49.68 | 3:17.76 | ||
| - | Arnfinn Kristiansen Ole Christian Strømberg Bjarne Røyland Mariusz Musial | 47.02 | 47.18 | 47.84 | DSQ | - | ||
| - | Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Franz Sagmeister Stefan Barucha | 46.91 | 46.77 | DNS | - | - | ||
| - | Alan Henderson Steve Harrison Angus Ross Mark Edmond | 50.67 | DNS | - | - | - | ||
| - | Keith Sudziarski Paul Zar Christian Brown Mike Savitch | 51.36 | DNS | - | - | - |