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
| 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
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-man |
Canada Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern ItalyGünther Huber Antonio Tartaglia | 3:37.24 | Germany Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann | 3:37.89 | ||
| Four-man |
Germany Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel | 2:39.41 | Switzerland Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz | 2:40.01 | Great Britain Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood FranceBruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert | 2:40.06 |
Participating NOCs
Twenty-eight nations participated in Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.
Australia (4)
Austria (8)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
Canada (8)
Czech Republic (5)
Chinese Taipei (4)
France (5)
Great Britain (7)
Germany (9)
Greece (4)
Hungary (4)
Ireland (5)
Virgin Islands (6)
Italy (8)
Jamaica (6)
Japan (9)
Latvia (6)
Monaco (4)
Norway (4)
New Zealand (2)
Poland (4)
Puerto Rico (5)
Romania (6)
Russia (6)
Switzerland (10)
Trinidad and Tobago (2)
Ukraine (2)
United States (8)
