Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Spiral
Dates	14–21 February 1998
Competitors	156 from 28 nations
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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]}

Medal summary

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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.

Events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Two-man details	Canada Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern   Italy Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia	3:37.24			Germany Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	3:37.89
Four-man details	Germany Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	2:39.41	Switzerland Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz	2:40.01	Great Britain Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood   France Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert	2:40.06

Participating NOCs

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Twenty-eight nations participated in Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.

•   Australia  (4)
•   Austria  (8)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina  (5)
•   Canada  (8)
•   Czech Republic  (5)
•   Chinese Taipei  (4)
•   France  (5)
•   Great Britain  (7)
•   Germany  (9)
•   Greece  (4)
•   Hungary  (4)
•   Ireland  (5)
•   Virgin Islands  (6)
•   Italy  (8)
•   Jamaica  (6)
•   Japan  (9)
•   Latvia  (6)
•   Monaco  (4)
•   Norway  (4)
•   New Zealand  (2)
•   Poland  (4)
•   Puerto Rico  (5)
•   Romania  (6)
•   Russia  (6)
•   Switzerland  (10)
•   Trinidad and Tobago  (2)
•   Ukraine  (2)
•   United States  (8)

References

1. "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
2. "Bobsleigh at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2018.

External links

• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited.