Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Four-man at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Spiral
Dates	February 20 — 21
Competitors	128 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:39.41
Medalists
Germany Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Marco Jakobs, Olaf Hampel   Switzerland Marcel Rohner, Markus Nüssli, Markus Wasser, Beat Seitz   Great Britain Sean Olsson, Dean Ward, Courtney Rumbolt, Paul Attwood   France Bruno Mingeon, Emmanuel Hostache, Éric Le Chanony, Max Robert

Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Two		men
Four		men

The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 22 and 23 February, at Spiral.^[1]

Weather led to the cancellation of the second run on the opening day, meaning the competition had three total runs.

Results

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Rank	Country	Athletes	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total
01 !	Germany (GER-2)	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	52.70	52.90	53.81	2:39.41
02 !	Switzerland (SUI-1)	Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz	53.13	53.15	53.73	2:40.01
03 !	Great Britain	Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood	52.77	53.58	53.71	2:40.06
03 !	France	Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert	53.13	53.30	53.63	2:40.06
5	United States (USA-1)	Brian Shimer Chip Minton Randy Jones Garrett Hines	52.93	53.42	53.73	2:40.08
6	Latvia	Sandis Prūsis Egils Bojārs Jānis Ozols Jānis Elsiņš	52.98	53.50	53.78	2:40.26
7	Switzerland (SUI-2)	Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Thomas Handschin Cédric Grand	52.88	53.47	53.93	2:40.28
8	Germany (GER-1)	Harald Czudaj Torsten Voss Steffen Görmer Alexander Szelig	53.12	53.50	53.70	2:40.32
9	Canada (CAN-1)	Pierre Lueders Ricardo Greenidge Jack Pyc Dave MacEachern	53.14	53.44	53.81	2:40.39
9	Austria (AUT-1)	Hubert Schösser Peter Leismuller Erwin Arnold Martin Schützenauer	53.10	53.50	53.79	2:40.39
11	Canada (CAN-2)	Chris Lori Ian Danney Matt Hindle Ben Hindle	53.52	53.69	53.93	2:41.14
12	United States (USA-2)	Jim Herberich Darrin Steele John Kasper Robert Olesen	53.74	53.72	53.81	2:41.27
13	Czech Republic	Pavel Puškár Peter Kondrát Pavel Polomský Jan Kobián	53.61	53.80	53.88	2:41.29
14	Italy (ITA-1)	Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia Massimiliano Rota Marco Menchini	53.84	53.68	53.91	2:41.43
15	Japan (JPN-1)	Naomi Takewaki Hiroaki Ohishi Takashi Ohori Masanori Inoue	53.73	53.87	53.95	2:41.55
16	Japan (JPN-2)	Toshio Wakita Yasuo Nakamura Toshiya Onoda Shinji Aoto	54.03	53.66	54.28	2:41.97
17	Norway	Arnfinn Kristiansen Jørn Stian Dahl Peter Kildal Dagfinn Aarskog	53.96	53.78	54.33	2:42.07
18	Austria (AUT-2)	Kurt Einberger Thomas Bachler Georg Kuttner Michael Müller	53.92	53.83	54.39	2:42.14
19	Russia	Pavel Shcheglovsky Aleksey Seliverstov Vladislav Posedkin Konstantin Dyomin	53.72	53.95	54.71	2:42.38
20	Italy (ITA-2)	Fabrizio Tosini Andrea Pais de Libera Enrico Costa Sergio Chianella	54.07	54.09	54.86	2:43.02
21	Jamaica	Dudley Stokes Winston Watt Chris Stokes Wayne Thomas	54.41	54.55	54.80	2:43.76
22	Poland	Tomasz Żyła Dawid Kupczyk Krzysztof Sieńko Tomasz Gatka	54.71	54.45	54.63	2:43.79
23	Australia	Jason Giobbi Scott Walker Ted Polglaze Adam Barclay	54.72	54.93	55.23	2:44.88
24	Hungary	Nicholas Frankl Péter Pallai Zsolt Zsombor Bertalan Pintér	55.16	54.82	54.94	2:44.92
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Zoran Sokolović Nihad Mameledzija Edin Krupalija Mario Franjić	55.26	55.11	55.30	2:45.67
26	Chinese Taipei	Sun Kuang-Ming Duh Maw-Sheng Chang Mau-San Cheng Jin-Shan	55.30	55.13	55.52	2:45.95
27	Romania	Florian Enache Marian Chiţescu Iulian Păcioianu Mihai Dumitraşcu	55.01	55.37	55.68	2:46.06
28	Monaco	Albert, Prince Grimaldi Pascal Camia Jean-François Calmes Gilbert Bessi	55.58	55.70	55.86	2:47.14
29	Virgin Islands	Keith Sudziarski Christian Brown Paul Zar Jeff Kromenhoek	55.80	55.52	55.84	2:47.16
30	Ireland	Jeff Pamplin Simon Linscheid Garry Power Terry McHugh	55.79	55.57	55.87	2:47.23
31	Greece	Greg Sebald Anastasios Papakonstantinou Peter Kolotouros John-Andrew Kambanis	55.94	56.18	56.14	2:48.26
-	Puerto Rico	Liston Bochette Jorge Bonnet José Ferrer Joseph Keosseian	56.45	55.96	DQ	-

References

• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (1998). "Bobsleigh: Two-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 159–60.

Sports-Reference - 1998 Four-man