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.
TypeDateTeamTime
Start23 January 2005
Martin Annen
Andi Gees
Beat Hefti
Cedric Grand
4.68
Run23 January 2005
Martin Annen
Andi Gees
Beat Hefti
Cedric Grand
55.54

The following track records were established during this event.
TypeDateRunTeamTime
Run24 February1
Todd Hays
Pavle Jovanovic
Steve Mesler
Brock Kreitzburg
55.43
Run24 February1
Pierre Lueders
Ken Kotyk
Morgan Alexander
Lascelles Brown
55.34
Run24 February1
Alexandre Zoubkov
Philippe Egorov
Alexei Seliverstov
Alexey Voevoda
55.22
Run24 February1
André Lange
René Hoppe
Kevin Kuske
Martin Putze
55.20
Run25 February3
Rene Spies
Christoph Heyder
Enrico Kuehn
Alexander Metzger
54.91
Run25 February3
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.
RankCountryAthletesRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
André Lange
René Hoppe
Kevin Kuske
Martin Putze
55.2055.3054.8055.123:40.42
Alexandr Zubkov
Filipp Yegorov
Alexei Seliverstov
Alexey Voevoda
55.2255.4554.8755.013:40.55
Martin Annen
Thomas Lamparter
Beat Hefti
Cedric Grand
55.2655.3755.0055.203:40.83
4Pierre Lueders
Ken Kotyk
Morgan Alexander
Lascelles Brown
55.3455.4354.9555.203:40.92
5Rene Spies
Christoph Heyder
Enrico Kühn
Alexander Metzger
55.4755.4854.9155.183:41.04
6Steve Holcomb
Curtis Tomasevicz
Bill Schuffenhauer
Lorenzo Smith III
55.4655.5055.1455.263:41.36
7Todd Hays
Pavle Jovanovic
Steve Mesler
Brock Kreitzburg
55.4355.5655.0455.413:41.44
8Ivo Rueegg
Andi Gees
Roman Handschin
Christian Aebli
55.6555.6355.2255.303:41.80
9Yevgeni Popov
Sergey Golubev
Pyotr Makarchuk
Dmitriy Stepushkin
55.8755.5755.1655.333:41.93
10Jānis Miņins
Daumants Dreiškens
Mārcis Rullis
Jānis Ozols
55.8855.6955.5155.513:42.59
11Fabrizio Tosini
Luca Ottolino
Antonio de Sanctis
Giorgio Morbidelli
55.8055.7355.5755.513:42.61
12Simone Bertazzo
Samuele Romanini
Matteo Torchio
Omar Sacco
55.6356.1355.4655.623:42.84
13Wolfgang Stampfer
Klaus Seelos
Juergen Loacker
Hans-Peter Welz
55.7755.8355.7355.533:42.86
14Ivo Danilevic
Radek Řechka
Roman Gomola
Jan Kobian
55.9255.8355.6655.563:46.97
15Dawid Kupczyk
Michal Zblewski
Mariusz Latkowski
Marcin Płacheta
55.8955.7955.8555.493:43.02
16Arend Glas
Vincent Kortbeek
Sybren Jansma
Arno Klaassen
55.8256.0855.7855.513:43.19
17Lee Johnston
Martin Wright
Karl Johnston
Dan Humphries
56.0656.0755.9355.323:43.38
18Serge Despres
Nathan Cunningham
Steve Larsen
David Bissett
56.1056.1555.6955.583:43.52
19Bruno Mingeon
Christophe Fouquet
Pierre-Alain Menneron
Alexandre Vanhoutte
56.0956.0855.8755.713:43.75
20Milan Jagnesak
Viktor Rajek
Andrej Benda
Robert Krestanko
56.2956.1356.2655.983:44.66
21Mihails Arhipovs
Intars Dicmanis
Māris Bogdanovs
Reinis Rozitis
56.3456.5456.13
22Nicolae Istrate
Adrian Duminicel
Gabriel Popa
Ioan Danut Dovalciuc
56.6156.7056.41
23Ivan Šola
Slaven Krajačić
Alek Osmanović
Jurica Grabušić
Dejan Vojnović
56.6756.5756.51
24Marton Gyulai
Zsolt Kürtösi
Tamas Margl
Bertalan Pinter
56.9956.7356.45
25Ricardo Raschini
Márcio Silva
Claudinei Quirino
Edson Bindilatti
60.3158.5160.12
Alan Henderson
Aaron Orangi
Steve Harrison
Matthew Dallow
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