Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Two-man
| Two-man at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||
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| Venue | Spiral | ||||||
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| Dates | February 14 — 15 | ||||||
| Competitors | 76 from 24 nations | ||||||
| Winning time | 3:37.24 | ||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics | ||||
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| Two | men | |||
| Four | men | |||
The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 14 and 15 February, at Spiral.[1] 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."
Results
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  Italy (ITA-1) | Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia | 54.51 | 54.29 | 54.17 | 54.27 | 3:37.24 |
| |  Canada (CAN-1) | Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern | 54.56 | 54.28 | 54.16 | 54.24 | 3:37.24 |
 |  Switzerland (SUI-2) | Christian Reich Cédric Grand | 54.82 | 54.62 | 54.11 | 54.34 | 3:37.89 |
| 4 |  Latvia (LAT-1) | Sandis Prūsis Jānis Elsiņš | 54.73 | 54.56 | 54.32 | 54.54 | 3:38.15 |
| 5 |  Germany (GER-1) | Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann | 54.91 | 54.52 | 54.29 | 54.52 | 3:38.24 |
| 6 |  France (FRA-1) | Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache | 54.71 | 54.77 | 54.44 | 54.35 | 3:38.27 |
| 7 | Canada (CAN-2) | Chris Lori Jack Pyc | 54.91 | 54.70 | 54.46 | 54.46 | 3:38.53 |
| 8 | Switzerland (SUI-1) | Reto Götschi Guido Acklin | 54.99 | 54.60 | 54.46 | 54.54 | 3:38.59 |
| 9 | Germany (GER-2) | Dirk Wiese Marco Jakobs | 54.80 | 54.65 | 54.55 | 54.62 | 3:38.62 |
| 10 |  Czech Republic (CZE-2) | Pavel Puškár Jan Kobián | 54.88 | 54.79 | 54.42 | 54.66 | 3:38.75 |
| 11 |  United States (USA-2) | Jim Herberich Robert Olesen | 54.83 | 54.66 | 54.63 | 54.76 | 3:38.88 |
| 12 | United States (USA-1) | Brian Shimer Garrett Hines | 54.76 | 54.72 | 54.71 | 54.79 | 3:38.98 |
| 13 | Italy (ITA-2) | Fabrizio Tosini Enrico Costa | 55.25 | 54.75 | 54.73 | 54.58 | 3:39.31 |
| 14 | France (FRA-2) | Éric Alard Éric Le Chanony | 55.07 | 54.79 | 54.80 | 54.95 | 3:39.61 |
| 15 |  Great Britain (GBR-1) | Sean Olsson Lenox Paul | 55.24 | 55.12 | 54.85 | 54.73 | 3:39.94 |
| 16 | Czech Republic (CZE-1) | Jirí Dzmura Pavel Polomský | 55.41 | 55.09 | 54.84 | 54.97 | 3:40.31 |
| 17 |  Russia (RUS-1) | Pavel Shcheglovsky Konstantin Dyomin | 55.31 | 55.24 | 55.20 | 54.96 | 3:40.71 |
| 18 |  Japan (JPN-1) | Naomi Takewaki Hiroaki Ohishi | 55.34 | 55.25 | 55.06 | 55.10 | 3:40.75 |
| 19 | Japan (JPN-2) | Hiroshi Suzuki Masanori Inoue | 55.47 | 55.10 | 55.19 | 55.04 | 3:40.80 |
| 20 | Latvia (LAT-2) | Rodžers Lodziņš Māris Rozentāls | 55.51 | 55.19 | 55.16 | 55.02 | 3:40.88 |
| 21 | Great Britain (GBR-2) | Lee Johnston Eric Sekwalor | 55.53 | 55.37 | 55.25 | 55.31 | 3:41.46 |
| 22 |  Ukraine | Yuriy Panchuk Oleh Polyvach | 55.56 | 55.47 | 55.26 | 55.31 | 3:41.60 |
| 23 | Russia (RUS-2) | Yevgeny Popov Oleg Petrov | 55.47 | 55.36 | 55.52 | 55.47 | 3:41.82 |
| 24 |  Australia | Jason Giobbi Adam Barclay | 55.89 | 55.86 | 55.92 | 55.87 | 3:43.54 |
| 25 |  Monaco | Gilbert Bessi Jean-François Calmes | 56.38 | 56.10 | 55.54 | 55.64 | 3:43.66 |
| 26 |  Romania (ROU-2) | Florian Enache Mihai Dumitraşcu | 56.03 | 55.86 | 55.97 | 55.87 | 3:43.73 |
| 27 |  Ireland (IRL-1) | Jeff Pamplin Terry McHugh | 56.32 | 56.05 | 55.99 | 55.96 | 3:44.32 |
| 28 | Romania (ROU-1) | Paul Neagu Gabriel Tătaru | 56.29 | 56.28 | 56.12 | 55.97 | 3:44.66 |
| 29 |  New Zealand | Alan Henderson Angus Ross | 56.56 | 56.52 | 56.36 | 56.30 | 3:45.74 |
| 30 |  Jamaica | Devon Harris Michael Morgan | 56.62 | 57.13 | 56.45 | 56.37 | 3:46.57 |
| 31 |  Trinidad and Tobago | Gregory Sun Curtis Harry | 57.36 | 56.62 | 56.32 | 56.31 | 3:46.61 |
| 32 |  Virgin Islands (ISV-1) | Zachary Zoller Jeff Kromenhoek | 56.74 | 56.78 | 56.73 | 56.40 | 3:46.65 |
| 33 |  Chinese Taipei | Sun Kuang-Ming Cheng Jin-Shan | 56.77 | 56.90 | 56.71 | 56.82 | 3:47.20 |
| 34 |  Greece | Greg Sebald John-Andrew Kambanis | 56.84 | 56.86 | 56.71 | 56.93 | 3:47.34 |
| 35 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zoran Sokolović Ognjen Sokolović | 57.03 | 57.26 | 56.57 | 56.59 | 3:47.45 |
| 36 | Virgin Islands (ISV-2) | Keith Sudziarski Todd Schultz | 57.06 | 57.10 | 56.96 | 57.19 | 3:48.31 |
| - | Ireland (IRL-2) | Peter Donohoe Simon Linscheid | 55.30 | 55.11 | DNS | - | - |
| - |  Puerto Rico | John Amabile Joseph Keosseian | 57.35 | DSQ | - | - | - |
References
- 1 2 "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (1998). "Bobsleigh: Two-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 159–60.
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