Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Spiral
Dates	14–21 February
Competitors	156 from 28 nations
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Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics consisted of two events at Spiral. The competition took place between February 16 and February 23, 1998.^[1][2]

Medal summary

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	1	0	1	2
2	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
4	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
5	France	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		3	1	3	7

Germany led the medal table, with two medals, one gold and one bronze. There had never before been a tie for a medal in Olympic bobsleigh history, but the Nagano Games featured two, one in each event, meaning that three gold medals, and seven medals total, were awarded.

France's bronze medal, as a part of the tie in the four-man event, was the country's first in Bobsleigh at the Olympics.

Events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Two-man details	Italy (ITA) Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia  Canada (CAN) Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern	3:37.24			Germany (GER) Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	3:37.89
Four-man details	Germany (GER) Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	2:39.41	Switzerland (SUI) Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz	2:40.01	Great Britain (GBR) Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood  France (FRA) Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert	2:40.06

Participating NOCs

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Twenty-nine nations participated in Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.

References

External links

• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited.

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