Bobsleigh_at_the_1992_Winter_Olympics Knowpia

Bobsleigh
at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Bobsleigh; at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	La Plagne
Dates	15–22 February
Competitors	159 from 25 nations
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Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics consisted of two events, at La Plagne. The competition took place between February 15 and February 22, 1992.^[1]^[2]

Medal summary edit

Medal table edit

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
2	Austria	1	0	0	1
3	Germany	0	2	1	3
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Three countries won medals in Albertville, with Maslanka-McDonnell team leading the medal table, with two medals, one gold and one bronze. Germany won the most medals, with three. Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin were the only athletes to medal in both competitions.

Events edit

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Two-man details	Switzerland (SUI) Gustav Weder Donat Acklin	4:03.26	Germany (GER) Rudi Lochner Markus Zimmermann	4:03.55	Germany (GER) Christoph Langen Günther Eger	4:03.63
Four-man details	Austria (AUT) Ingo Appelt Harald Winkler Gerhard Haidacher Thomas Schroll	3:53.90	Germany (GER) Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł Axel Kühn René Hannemann	3:53.92	Switzerland (SUI) Gustav Weder Donat Acklin Lorenz Schindelholz Curdin Morell	3:54.13

Participating NOCs edit

Twenty-five nations participated in bobsleigh at the 1992 Games. Ireland, Latvia, Puerto Rico and the Unified Team made their bobsleigh debuts.^[1]

Netherlands Antilles (2)
Australia (2)
Austria (8)
Bulgaria (5)
Canada (9)
France (9)
Great Britain (8)
Germany (12)
Ireland (4)
Virgin Islands (8)
Italy (8)
Jamaica (5)
Japan (4)
Latvia (8)
Mexico (7)
Monaco (5)
Norway (2)
Puerto Rico (4)
Romania (5)
Switzerland (8)
Czechoslovakia (6)
Chinese Taipei (4)
Unified Team (9)
United States (12)
Yugoslavia (5)

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
^ "Bobsleigh at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2018.