| Two-man at the XV Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Canada Olympic Park | |||||||||
| Dates | February 20 – 21 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 92 from 25 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:53.48 | |||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics | |
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| Two | men |
| Four | men |
The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary was held on 20 and 21 February, at Canada Olympic Park. [1] [2]
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  Soviet Union (URS-1) | Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov | 57.43 | 58.05 | 59.52 | 58.48 | 3:53.48 |
 |  East Germany (GDR-1) | Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł | 57.06 | 59.26 | 59.45 | 58.42 | 3:54.19 |
 | East Germany (GDR-2) | Bernhard Lehmann Mario Hoyer | 57.65 | 58.67 | 59.59 | 58.73 | 3:54.64 |
| 4 |  Switzerland (SUI-2) | Gustav Weder Donat Acklin | 58.01 | 58.88 | 60.12 | 59.05 | 3:56.06 |
| 5 |  Austria (AUT-1) | Ingo Appelt Harald Winkler | 57.22 | 59.83 | 60.00 | 59.44 | 3:56.49 |
| 6 | Switzerland (SUI-1) | Hans Hiltebrand André Kisser | 58.74 | 59.21 | 59.55 | 59.02 | 3:56.52 |
| 7 |  West Germany (FRG-1) | Anton Fischer Christoph Langen | 57.58 | 59.70 | 60.06 | 59.28 | 3:56.62 |
| 8 | Austria (AUT-2) | Peter Kienast Christian Mark | 58.19 | 58.96 | 60.48 | 59.28 | 3:56.91 |
| 9 | Soviet Union (URS-2) | Zintis Ekmanis Aivars Trops | 57.95 | 59.12 | 60.72 | 59.13 | 3:56.92 |
| 10 |  Canada (CAN-1) | Greg Haydenluck Lloyd Guss | 57.36 | 59.90 | 60.11 | 59.60 | 3:56.97 |
| 11 | West Germany (FRG-2) | Michael Sperr Rolf Müller | 57.47 | 60.09 | 60.42 | 59.86 | 3:57.84 |
| 12 |  Great Britain (GBR-1) | Tom De La Hunty Alec Leonce | 57.83 | 59.77 | 60.91 | 59.50 | 3:58.01 |
| 13 | Canada (CAN-2) | David Leuty Kevin Tyler | 58.56 | 59.08 | 60.55 | 60.00 | 3:58.19 |
| 14 |  Sweden (SWE-1) | Per-Anders Persson Rolf Akerstrom | 58.40 | 59.99 | 60.99 | 59.71 | 3:59.09 |
| 15 |  Chinese Taipei (TPE-1) | Chen Chin-san Lee Chen-tan | 57.83 | 60.22 | 60.99 | 60.07 | 3:59.11 |
| 16 |  United States (USA-2) | Matt Roy Jim Herberich | 59.35 | 60.06 | 60.34 | 59.57 | 3:59.32 |
| 17 |  Italy (ITA-1) | Alex Wolf Georg Beikircher | 59.35 | 59.65 | 60.32 | 60.03 | 3:59.35 |
| 18 | Great Britain (GBR-2) | Mark Tout David Armstrong | 58.10 | 60.31 | 61.11 | 59.87 | 3:59.39 |
| 19 | Italy (ITA-2) | Ivo Ferriano Stefano Ticci | 58.25 | 60.60 | 61.08 | 60.21 | 4:00.14 |
| 20 |  New Zealand (NZL-1) | Lex Peterson Peter Henry | 58.65 | 60.87 | 61.25 | 60.27 | 4:01.04 |
| 20 |  Japan (JPN-2) | Yuji Yaku Toshio Wakita | 58.57 | 60.58 | 61.51 | 60.38 | 4:01.04 |
| 22 |  Bulgaria (BUL-1) | Tsvetozar Viktorov Aleksandar Simeonov | 58.82 | 60.74 | 61.35 | 60.26 | 4:01.17 |
| 23 |  Australia (AUS-2) | Angus Stuart Martin Harland | 59.21 | 60.15 | 61.38 | 60.49 | 4:01.23 |
| 24 |  Romania (ROU-1) | Csaba Nagy Lakatos Costel Petrariu | 58.83 | 60.82 | 61.75 | 60.62 | 4:02.02 |
| 25 |  Monaco (MON-1) | Albert, Prince Grimaldi Gilbert Bessi | 58.48 | 60.93 | 61.64 | 61.42 | 4:02.47 |
| 26 | Australia (AUS-1) | Adrian Di Piazza Simon Dodd | 60.03 | 60.94 | 61.23 | 60.41 | 4:02.61 |
| 27 | Romania (ROU-2) | Dorin Degan Grigore Anghel | 58.85 | 61.00 | 61.81 | 61.14 | 4:02.80 |
| 28 |  Yugoslavia | Borislav Vujadinović Miro Pandurević | 59.63 | 60.70 | 62.28 | 60.89 | 4:03.50 |
| 29 |  Netherlands Antilles | Bart Carpentier Alting Bart Drechsel | 59.60 | 60.78 | 61.95 | 61.40 | 4:03.73 |
| 30 |  Jamaica | Dudley Stokes Michael White | 60.20 | 60.56 | 61.87 | 61.23 | 4:03.86 |
| 31 | New Zealand (NZL-2) | Owen Pinnell Blair Telford | 60.37 | 60.95 | 61.62 | 61.22 | 4:04.16 |
| 32 | Bulgaria (BUL-2) | Todor Todorov Nikolay Botev | 59.68 | 61.44 | 62.05 | 61.64 | 4:04.81 |
| 33 | Chinese Taipei (TPE-2) | Sun Kuang-Ming Chen Chin-Sen | 59.25 | 61.54 | 62.26 | 62.01 | 4:05.06 |
| 34 |  Portugal (POR-1) | Antonio Reis João Poupada | 60.72 | 61.59 | 61.86 | 60.98 | 4:05.15 |
| 35 |  Virgin Islands (ISV-2) | Harvey Hook Christopher Sharpless | 61.05 | 62.70 | 63.42 | 61.92 | 4:09.09 |
| 36 |  Mexico (MEX-1) | Jorge Tamés José Tamés | 61.58 | 62.39 | 63.44 | 62.67 | 4:10.08 |
| 37 | Mexico (MEX-2) | Roberto Tamés Luis Adrián Tamés | 61.56 | 61.84 | 63.76 | 62.93 | 4:10.09 |
| 38 | Virgin Islands (ISV-1) | John Reeve John Foster, Sr. | 61.11 | 63.06 | 64.14 | 62.70 | 4:11.01 |
| - | United States (USA-1) | Brent Rushlaw Mike Aljoe | 59.01 | 60.13 | 60.96 | DNS | - |
| - | Portugal (POR-2) | Jorge Magalhães João Pires | 62.85 | 63.18 | 65.19 | DNS | - |
| Japan (JPN-1) | Takao Sakai Naomi Takewaki | 58.32 | 60.39 | DSQ | - | - |
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