Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Four-man
| Four-man bobsleigh at the XIX Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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 USA-2 team, consisting of Brian Shimer, Mike Kohn, Doug Sharp and Dan Steele, after finishing the third run of the four-man competition | ||||||||||
| Venue | Park City, United States | |||||||||
| Dates | February 22–23 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 135 from 26 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:07.51 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Two | men | women |
| Four | men | |
The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City was held on 22 and 23 February, at the Utah Olympic Park Track near Park City.[1][2]
Records
While the
FIBT
does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.
Prior to this competition, the existing track records for the Utah Olympic Park Track were as follows.
| Type[1] | Date | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 28 November 1998 |  |
4.74 |
| Run | 25 February 2001 | Rene Hoppe Carsten Embach |
46.57 |
The following track records were established during this event.
| Type[1] | Date | Run | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 22 February | 1 |  |
4.73 |
| 22 February | 2 | |
4.72 |
Results
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 Germany (GER-2) |
André Lange Enrico Kühn Kevin Kuske Carsten Embach |
46.71 | 46.64 | 46.84 | 47.32 | 3:07.51 |
 |
 United States (USA-1) |
Todd Hays Randy Jones Bill Schuffenhauer Garrett Hines |
46.65 | 46.61 | 47.22 | 47.33 | 3:07.81 |
 |
United States (USA-2) |
Brian Shimer Mike Kohn Doug Sharp Dan Steele |
46.83 | 46.82 | 46.98 | 47.23 | 3:07.86 |
| 4 | Switzerland (SUI-1) |
46.72 | 46.63 | 47.11 | 47.49 | 3:07.95 | |
| 5 |  France (FRA-1) |
Bruno Mingeon Éric Le Chanony Christophe Fouquet Alexandre Arbez |
46.92 | 46.86 | 47.25 | 47.53 | 3:08.56 |
| 6 | Switzerland (SUI-2) |
Urs Aeberhard |
46.71 | 46.93 | 47.33 | 47.62 | 3:08.59 |
| 7 |  Latvia (LAT-1) |
Janis Silarajs Jānis Ozols |
46.99 | 46.82 | 47.60 | 47.65 | 3:09.06 |
| 8 |  Russia (RUS-1) |
Dmitry Styopushkin |
47.14 | 46.98 | 47.45 | 47.58 | 3:09.15 |
| 9 |  Canada |
Pierre Lueders Ken LeBlanc Giulio Zardo Pascal Caron |
47.12 | 46.97 | 47.41 | 47.67 | 3:09.17 |
| 10 | France (FRA-2) |
Bruno Thomas Michel André Thibault Giroud Philippe Paviot |
46.88 | 47.03 | 47.47 | 47.82 | 3:09.20 |
| 11 |  Great Britain (GBR-1) |
Neil Scarisbrick Scott Rider Philip Goedluck Dean Ward |
47.09 | 47.05 | 47.44 | 47.79 | 3:09.37 |
| 12 | Latvia (LAT-2) |
Gunars Bumbulis |
46.99 | 46.99 | 47.80 | 47.66 | 3:09.44 |
| 13 |  Austria |
Wolfgang Stampfer Michael Müller Klaus Seelos Martin Schützenauer |
47.19 | 47.27 | 47.51 | 47.60 | 3:09.57 |
| 14 | Great Britain (GBR-2) |
47.06 | 47.32 | 47.41 | 47.98 | 3:09.77 | |
| 15 |  Czech Republic |
Ivo Danilevic Jan Kobián |
47.23 | 47.17 | 47.58 | 47.95 | 3:09.93 |
| 16 | Russia (RUS-2) |
Aleksey Andryunin |
47.26 | 47.09 | 47.76 | 48.04 | 3:10.15 |
| 17 |  Netherlands |
Arend Glas Arnold van Calker Timothy Beck Marcel Welten |
47.15 | 47.18 | 47.82 | 48.23 | 3:10.38 |
| 18 |  Poland |
Krzysztof Sienko Tomasz Gatka |
47.22 | 47.48 | 47.93 | 48.10 | 3:10.73 |
| 19 |  Italy |
Fabrizio Tosini Andrea Pais de Libera Massimiliano Rota Giona Cividino |
47.48 | 47.40 | 48.11 | 47.97 | 3:10.96 |
| 20 |  Japan |
47.65 | 47.46 | 47.92 | 48.14 | 3:11.17 | |
| 21 |  Romania |
Iulian Pacioianu Teodor Demetriad |
47.59 | 47.66 | 48.19 | 48.22 | 3:11.66 |
| 22 |  Ukraine |
Yuriy Zhuravskiy |
48.03 | 48.09 | 48.76 | 48.89 | 3:13.77 |
| 23 |  Hungary |
Nicholas Frankl Márton Gyulai Péter Pallai Bertalan Pintér Zsolt Zsombor |
48.26 | 48.18 | 49.03 | 49.08 | 3:14.55 |
| 24 |  Slovakia |
Róbert Krestanko |
47.80 | 47.88 | 51.10 | 48.64 | 3:15.42 |
| 25 |  FR Yugoslavia |
Vuk Radenovic |
48.66 | 48.79 | 48.97 | 49.13 | 3:15.55 |
| 26 |  Croatia |
Ivan Šola Boris Lovrić Ðulijano Koludra Niki Drpić (Runs 1–3) Igor Boraska (Run 4) |
48.84 | 48.45 | 49.17 | 49.68 | 3:16.14 |
| 27 |  Brazil |
48.91 | 48.76 | 49.44 | 49.62 | 3:16.73 | |
| 28 |  Monaco |
Albert, Prince Grimaldi Charles Oula Sébastien Gattuso Patrice Servelle Jean-François Calmes |
47.82 | 48.02 | 52.44 | 48.91 | 3:17.19 |
| 29 |  Chinese Taipei |
Chen Chin-san Chen Chien-li Lin Ruei-ming Chen Chien-sheng |
48.86 | 49.19 | 50.03 | 49.68 | 3:17.76 |
| - |  Norway |
Arnfinn Kristiansen Ole Christian Strømberg Bjarne Røyland Mariusz Musial |
47.02 | 47.18 | 47.84 | DSQ | - |
| - | Germany (GER-1) |
Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Franz Sagmeister Stefan Barucha |
46.91 | 46.77 | DNS | - | - |
| - |  New Zealand |
50.67 | DNS | - | - | - | |
| - |  Virgin Islands |
Keith Sudziarski Paul Zar Christian Brown Mike Savitch |
51.36 | DNS | - | - | - |
References
- ^ a b c d "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 1" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 6, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
- ^ "Bobsleigh at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
