Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Two-man
Two-man at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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Venue | Spiral | |||||||||
Dates | February 14 — 15 | |||||||||
Competitors | 76 from 24 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 3:37.24 | |||||||||
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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 | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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![]() | ![]() | 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 | - | - | - | - |
References
- ^ a b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
- ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's Two". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
External links
- 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.