Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics consisted of two events at Spiral. The competition took place between February 16 and February 23, 1998.[1][2]
Bobsleigh at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Spiral |
Dates | 14–21 February |
Competitors | 156 from 28 nations |
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 | |
Totals (6 entries) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
Germany led the medal table, with two medals, one gold and one bronze. There had never before been a tie for a medal in Olympic bobsleigh history, but the Nagano Games featured two, one in each event, meaning that three gold medals, and seven medals total, were awarded.
France's bronze medal, as a part of the tie in the four-man event, was the country's first in Bobsleigh at the Olympics.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Two-man |
Italy (ITA) Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia Canada (CAN) Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern |
3:37.24 | Germany (GER) Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann |
3:37.89 | ||
Four-man |
Germany (GER) Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel |
2:39.41 | Switzerland (SUI) Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz |
2:40.01 | Great Britain (GBR) Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood France (FRA) Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert |
2:40.06 |
Twenty-nine nations participated in Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.