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Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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The 1998 Winter Olympic Games bobsleigh results

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

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

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