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
Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia | 54.51 | 54.29 | 54.17 | 54.27 | 3:37.24 | ||
Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern | 54.56 | 54.28 | 54.16 | 54.24 | 3:37.24 | ||
Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann | 54.82 | 54.62 | 54.11 | 54.34 | 3:37.89 | ||
4 | Christian Reich Cédric Grand | 54.73 | 54.56 | 54.32 | 54.54 | 3:38.15 | |
5 | Sandis Prūsis Jānis Elsiņš | 54.91 | 54.52 | 54.29 | 54.52 | 3:38.24 | |
6 | Reto Götschi Guido Acklin | 54.71 | 54.77 | 54.44 | 54.35 | 3:38.27 | |
7 | Jim Herberich Robert Olesen | 54.91 | 54.70 | 54.46 | 54.46 | 3:38.53 | |
8 | Pavel Puškár Jan Kobián | 54.99 | 54.60 | 54.46 | 54.54 | 3:38.59 | |
9 | Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache | 54.80 | 54.65 | 54.55 | 54.62 | 3:38.62 | |
10 | Brian Shimer Garrett Hines | 54.88 | 54.79 | 54.42 | 54.66 | 3:38.75 | |
11 | Dirk Wiese Marco Jakobs | 54.83 | 54.66 | 54.63 | 54.76 | 3:38.88 | |
12 | Chris Lori Jack Pyc | 54.76 | 54.72 | 54.71 | 54.79 | 3:38.98 | |
13 | Éric Alard Éric Le Chanony | 55.25 | 54.75 | 54.73 | 54.58 | 3:39.31 | |
14 | Fabrizio Tosini Enrico Costa | 55.07 | 54.79 | 54.80 | 54.95 | 3:39.61 | |
15 | Sean Olsson Lenox Paul | 55.24 | 55.12 | 54.85 | 54.73 | 3:39.94 | |
16 | Pavel Shcheglovsky Konstantin Dyomin | 55.41 | 55.09 | 54.84 | 54.97 | 3:40.31 | |
17 | Naomi Takewaki Hiroaki Ohishi | 55.31 | 55.24 | 55.20 | 54.96 | 3:40.71 | |
18 | Rodžers Lodziņš Māris Rozentāls | 55.34 | 55.25 | 55.06 | 55.10 | 3:40.75 | |
19 | Hiroshi Suzuki Masanori Inoue | 55.47 | 55.10 | 55.19 | 55.04 | 3:40.80 | |
20 | Lee Johnston Eric Sekwalor | 55.51 | 55.19 | 55.16 | 55.02 | 3:40.88 | |
21 | Yevgeny Popov Oleg Petrov | 55.53 | 55.37 | 55.25 | 55.31 | 3:41.46 | |
22 | Jason Giobbi Adam Barclay | 55.56 | 55.47 | 55.26 | 55.31 | 3:41.60 | |
23 | Yuriy Panchuk Oleh Polyvach | 55.47 | 55.36 | 55.52 | 55.47 | 3:41.82 | |
24 | Gilbert Bessi Jean-François Calmes | 55.89 | 55.86 | 55.92 | 55.87 | 3:43.54 | |
25 | Paul Neagu Gabriel Tătaru | 56.38 | 56.10 | 55.54 | 55.64 | 3:43.66 | |
26 | Florian Enache Mihai Dumitraşcu | 56.03 | 55.86 | 55.97 | 55.87 | 3:43.73 | |
27 | Jeff Pamplin Terry McHugh | 56.32 | 56.05 | 55.99 | 55.96 | 3:44.32 | |
28 | Alan Henderson Angus Ross | 56.29 | 56.28 | 56.12 | 55.97 | 3:44.66 | |
29 | Devon Harris Michael Morgan | 56.56 | 56.52 | 56.36 | 56.30 | 3:45.74 | |
30 | Greg Sebald John-Andrew Kambanis | 56.62 | 57.13 | 56.45 | 56.37 | 3:46.57 | |
31 | Zoran Sokolović Ognjen Sokolović | 57.36 | 56.62 | 56.32 | 56.31 | 3:46.61 | |
32 | Gregory Sun Curtis Harry | 56.74 | 56.78 | 56.73 | 56.40 | 3:46.65 | |
33 | Zachary Zoller Jeff Kromenhoek | 56.77 | 56.90 | 56.71 | 56.82 | 3:47.20 | |
34 | Sun Kuang-ming Cheng Jin-shan | 56.84 | 56.86 | 56.71 | 56.93 | 3:47.34 | |
35 | Peter Donohoe Simon Linscheid | 57.03 | 57.26 | 56.57 | 56.59 | 3:47.45 | |
36 | Keith Sudziarski Todd Schultz | 57.06 | 57.10 | 56.96 | 57.19 | 3:48.31 | |
- | Jirí Dzmura Pavel Polomský | 55.30 | 55.11 | DNS | - | - | |
- | John Amabile Joseph Keosseian | 57.35 | 57.69 | DSQ | - | - | |
- | Herbert Schoesser Georg Kuttner | DNS | - | - | - | - |