Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Four-man
The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 24 and 25 February, at Cesana Pariol.
Records
While the IOC does not consider bobsled times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.Prior to this competition, the existing Cesana Pariol track records were as follows.
Type | Date | Team | Time |
Start | 23 January 2005 | Martin Annen Andi Gees Beat Hefti Cedric Grand | 4.68 |
Run | 23 January 2005 | Martin Annen Andi Gees Beat Hefti Cedric Grand | 55.54 |
The following track records were established during this event.
Type | Date | Run | Team | Time |
Run | 24 February | 1 | Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic Steve Mesler Brock Kreitzburg | 55.43 |
Run | 24 February | 1 | Pierre Lueders Ken Kotyk Morgan Alexander Lascelles Brown | 55.34 |
Run | 24 February | 1 | Alexandre Zoubkov Philippe Egorov Alexei Seliverstov Alexey Voevoda | 55.22 |
Run | 24 February | 1 | André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze | 55.20 |
Run | 25 February | 3 | Rene Spies Christoph Heyder Enrico Kuehn Alexander Metzger | 54.91 |
Run | 25 February | 3 | André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze | 54.80 |
Results
Twenty-six sleds were entered in the four-man event, with one, from New Zealand, not starting the first run after crashing in training.After the third run, only the top twenty sleds by combined time were allowed to compete in the final run. The final ranking was determined by the combined time of each sled over the four runs.
Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze | 55.20 | 55.30 | 54.80 | 55.12 | 3:40.42 | ||
Alexandr Zubkov Filipp Yegorov Alexei Seliverstov Alexey Voevoda | 55.22 | 55.45 | 54.87 | 55.01 | 3:40.55 | ||
Martin Annen Thomas Lamparter Beat Hefti Cedric Grand | 55.26 | 55.37 | 55.00 | 55.20 | 3:40.83 | ||
4 | Pierre Lueders Ken Kotyk Morgan Alexander Lascelles Brown | 55.34 | 55.43 | 54.95 | 55.20 | 3:40.92 | |
5 | Rene Spies Christoph Heyder Enrico Kühn Alexander Metzger | 55.47 | 55.48 | 54.91 | 55.18 | 3:41.04 | |
6 | Steve Holcomb Curtis Tomasevicz Bill Schuffenhauer Lorenzo Smith III | 55.46 | 55.50 | 55.14 | 55.26 | 3:41.36 | |
7 | Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic Steve Mesler Brock Kreitzburg | 55.43 | 55.56 | 55.04 | 55.41 | 3:41.44 | |
8 | Ivo Rueegg Andi Gees Roman Handschin Christian Aebli | 55.65 | 55.63 | 55.22 | 55.30 | 3:41.80 | |
9 | Yevgeni Popov Sergey Golubev Pyotr Makarchuk Dmitriy Stepushkin | 55.87 | 55.57 | 55.16 | 55.33 | 3:41.93 | |
10 | Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens Mārcis Rullis Jānis Ozols | 55.88 | 55.69 | 55.51 | 55.51 | 3:42.59 | |
11 | Fabrizio Tosini Luca Ottolino Antonio de Sanctis Giorgio Morbidelli | 55.80 | 55.73 | 55.57 | 55.51 | 3:42.61 | |
12 | Simone Bertazzo Samuele Romanini Matteo Torchio Omar Sacco | 55.63 | 56.13 | 55.46 | 55.62 | 3:42.84 | |
13 | Wolfgang Stampfer Klaus Seelos Juergen Loacker Hans-Peter Welz | 55.77 | 55.83 | 55.73 | 55.53 | 3:42.86 | |
14 | Ivo Danilevic Radek Řechka Roman Gomola Jan Kobian | 55.92 | 55.83 | 55.66 | 55.56 | 3:46.97 | |
15 | Dawid Kupczyk Michal Zblewski Mariusz Latkowski Marcin Płacheta | 55.89 | 55.79 | 55.85 | 55.49 | 3:43.02 | |
16 | Arend Glas Vincent Kortbeek Sybren Jansma Arno Klaassen | 55.82 | 56.08 | 55.78 | 55.51 | 3:43.19 | |
17 | Lee Johnston Martin Wright Karl Johnston Dan Humphries | 56.06 | 56.07 | 55.93 | 55.32 | 3:43.38 | |
18 | Serge Despres Nathan Cunningham Steve Larsen David Bissett | 56.10 | 56.15 | 55.69 | 55.58 | 3:43.52 | |
19 | Bruno Mingeon Christophe Fouquet Pierre-Alain Menneron Alexandre Vanhoutte | 56.09 | 56.08 | 55.87 | 55.71 | 3:43.75 | |
20 | Milan Jagnesak Viktor Rajek Andrej Benda Robert Krestanko | 56.29 | 56.13 | 56.26 | 55.98 | 3:44.66 | |
21 | Mihails Arhipovs Intars Dicmanis Māris Bogdanovs Reinis Rozitis | 56.34 | 56.54 | 56.13 | — | — | |
22 | Nicolae Istrate Adrian Duminicel Gabriel Popa Ioan Danut Dovalciuc | 56.61 | 56.70 | 56.41 | — | — | |
23 | Ivan Šola Slaven Krajačić Alek Osmanović Jurica Grabušić Dejan Vojnović | 56.67 | 56.57 | 56.51 | — | — | |
24 | Marton Gyulai Zsolt Kürtösi Tamas Margl Bertalan Pinter | 56.99 | 56.73 | 56.45 | — | — | |
25 | Ricardo Raschini Márcio Silva Claudinei Quirino Edson Bindilatti | 60.31 | 58.51 | 60.12 | — | — | |
— | Alan Henderson Aaron Orangi Steve Harrison Matthew Dallow | DNS | — | — | — | — |