Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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The 1998 Winter Olympic Games bobsleigh results
Contents
Two-man
| Medal | Athletes | Time |
| Gold |  Günther Huber / Antonio Tartaglia (ITA) |
3:37.24 |
| Gold |  Pierre Lueders / David MacEachern (CAN) |
3:37.24 |
| Bronze |  Christoph Langen / Markus Zimmermann (GER) |
3:37.89 |
| 4 |  Christian Reich / Cédric Grand (SUI) |
3:38.15 |
| 5 |  Sandis Prusis / Janis Elsins (LAT) |
3:38.24 |
| 6 | Reto Götschi / Guido Acklin (SUI) |
3:38.27 |
| 7 |  James Herberich / Robert Olesen (USA) |
3:38.53 |
| 8 |  Pavel Puskar / Jan Kobian (CZE) |
3:38.59 |
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."
Four-man
| Medal | Team | Time |
| Gold |  Germany II (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Marco Jakobs, Olaf Hampel) |
2:39.41 |
| Silver |  Switzerland I (Marcel Rohner, Markus Nüssli, Markus Wasser, Beat Seitz) |
2:40.01 |
| Bronze |  Great Britain I (Sean Olsson, Dean Ward, Courtney Rumbolt, Paul Attwood) |
2:40.06 |
| Bronze |  France I (Bruno Mingeon, Emanuel Hostache, Éric Le Chanony, Max Robert) |
2:40.06 |
| 5 |  United States I (Brian Shimer, Chip Minton, Randy Jones, Garreth Hines) |
2:40.08 |
| 6 |  Latvia I (Sandis Prusis, Egils Bojars, Janis Ozols, Janis Elsins) |
2:40.26 |
| 7 | Switzerland II (Christian Reich, Steve Anderhub, Thomas Handschin, Cédric Grand) |
2:40.28 |
| 8 | Germany I (Harald Czudaj, Torsten Voss, Steffen Görmer, Alexander Szelig) |
2:40.32 |
The second run on the first day of events was cancelled to weather while both runs on the second day were contested.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Germany |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 |  Canada |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Italy |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 |  Switzerland |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |  France |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Great Britain |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- 1998 bobsleigh two-man results
- 1998 bobsleigh four-man results
- 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.
