Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Two-man


The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 14 and 15 February, at Spiral. 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

RankCountryAthletesRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
Günther Huber
Antonio Tartaglia
54.5154.2954.1754.273:37.24
Pierre Lueders
Dave MacEachern
54.5654.2854.1654.243:37.24
Christoph Langen
Markus Zimmermann
54.8254.6254.1154.343:37.89
4Christian Reich
Cédric Grand
54.7354.5654.3254.543:38.15
5Sandis Prūsis
Jānis Elsiņš
54.9154.5254.2954.523:38.24
6Reto Götschi
Guido Acklin
54.7154.7754.4454.353:38.27
7Jim Herberich
Robert Olesen
54.9154.7054.4654.463:38.53
8Pavel Puškár
Jan Kobián
54.9954.6054.4654.543:38.59
9Bruno Mingeon
Emmanuel Hostache
54.8054.6554.5554.623:38.62
10Brian Shimer
Garrett Hines
54.8854.7954.4254.663:38.75
11Dirk Wiese
Marco Jakobs
54.8354.6654.6354.763:38.88
12Chris Lori
Jack Pyc
54.7654.7254.7154.793:38.98
13Éric Alard
Éric Le Chanony
55.2554.7554.7354.583:39.31
14Fabrizio Tosini
Enrico Costa
55.0754.7954.8054.953:39.61
15Sean Olsson
Lenox Paul
55.2455.1254.8554.733:39.94
16Pavel Shcheglovsky
Konstantin Dyomin
55.4155.0954.8454.973:40.31
17Naomi Takewaki
Hiroaki Ohishi
55.3155.2455.2054.963:40.71
18Rodžers Lodziņš
Māris Rozentāls
55.3455.2555.0655.103:40.75
19Hiroshi Suzuki
Masanori Inoue
55.4755.1055.1955.043:40.80
20Lee Johnston
Eric Sekwalor
55.5155.1955.1655.023:40.88
21Yevgeny Popov
Oleg Petrov
55.5355.3755.2555.313:41.46
22Jason Giobbi
Adam Barclay
55.5655.4755.2655.313:41.60
23Yuriy Panchuk
Oleh Polyvach
55.4755.3655.5255.473:41.82
24Gilbert Bessi
Jean-François Calmes
55.8955.8655.9255.873:43.54
25Paul Neagu
Gabriel Tătaru
56.3856.1055.5455.643:43.66
26Florian Enache
Mihai Dumitraşcu
56.0355.8655.9755.873:43.73
27Jeff Pamplin
Terry McHugh
56.3256.0555.9955.963:44.32
28Alan Henderson
Angus Ross
56.2956.2856.1255.973:44.66
29Devon Harris
Michael Morgan
56.5656.5256.3656.303:45.74
30Greg Sebald
John-Andrew Kambanis
56.6257.1356.4556.373:46.57
31Zoran Sokolović
Ognjen Sokolović
57.3656.6256.3256.313:46.61
32Gregory Sun
Curtis Harry
56.7456.7856.7356.403:46.65
33Zachary Zoller
Jeff Kromenhoek
56.7756.9056.7156.823:47.20
34Sun Kuang-ming
Cheng Jin-shan
56.8456.8656.7156.933:47.34
35Peter Donohoe
Simon Linscheid
57.0357.2656.5756.593:47.45
36Keith Sudziarski
Todd Schultz
57.0657.1056.9657.193:48.31
-Jirí Dzmura
Pavel Polomský
55.3055.11DNS--
-John Amabile
Joseph Keosseian
57.3557.69DSQ--
-Herbert Schoesser
Georg Kuttner
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