The Two-man bobsleigh competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 14 and 15 February, at Spiral. Huber lead Lueders by 0.05 seconds after the first run. Leuders picked up 0.02 seconds in the next two runs. Prior to the start of the fourth run, Lueders turned to Huber and asked "Can you imagine if we tied this thing?" After the fourth run, Tartaglia stated "In the end, it felt like were friends who had accomplished something together."

Results

Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia 54.51 54.29 54.17 54.27 3:37.24 Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern 54.56 54.28 54.16 54.24 3:37.24 Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann 54.82 54.62 54.11 54.34 3:37.89 4 Christian Reich Cédric Grand 54.73 54.56 54.32 54.54 3:38.15 5 Sandis Prūsis Jānis Elsiņš 54.91 54.52 54.29 54.52 3:38.24 6 Reto Götschi Guido Acklin 54.71 54.77 54.44 54.35 3:38.27 7 Jim Herberich Robert Olesen 54.91 54.70 54.46 54.46 3:38.53 8 Pavel Puškár Jan Kobián 54.99 54.60 54.46 54.54 3:38.59 9 Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache 54.80 54.65 54.55 54.62 3:38.62 10 Brian Shimer Garrett Hines 54.88 54.79 54.42 54.66 3:38.75 11 Dirk Wiese Marco Jakobs 54.83 54.66 54.63 54.76 3:38.88 12 Chris Lori Jack Pyc 54.76 54.72 54.71 54.79 3:38.98 13 Éric Alard Éric Le Chanony 55.25 54.75 54.73 54.58 3:39.31 14 Fabrizio Tosini Enrico Costa 55.07 54.79 54.80 54.95 3:39.61 15 Sean Olsson Lenox Paul 55.24 55.12 54.85 54.73 3:39.94 16 Pavel Shcheglovsky Konstantin Dyomin 55.41 55.09 54.84 54.97 3:40.31 17 Naomi Takewaki Hiroaki Ohishi 55.31 55.24 55.20 54.96 3:40.71 18 Rodžers Lodziņš Māris Rozentāls 55.34 55.25 55.06 55.10 3:40.75 19 Hiroshi Suzuki Masanori Inoue 55.47 55.10 55.19 55.04 3:40.80 20 Lee Johnston Eric Sekwalor 55.51 55.19 55.16 55.02 3:40.88 21 Yevgeny Popov Oleg Petrov 55.53 55.37 55.25 55.31 3:41.46 22 Jason Giobbi Adam Barclay 55.56 55.47 55.26 55.31 3:41.60 23 Yuriy Panchuk Oleh Polyvach 55.47 55.36 55.52 55.47 3:41.82 24 Gilbert Bessi Jean-François Calmes 55.89 55.86 55.92 55.87 3:43.54 25 Paul Neagu Gabriel Tătaru 56.38 56.10 55.54 55.64 3:43.66 26 Florian Enache Mihai Dumitrașcu 56.03 55.86 55.97 55.87 3:43.73 27 Jeff Pamplin Terry McHugh 56.32 56.05 55.99 55.96 3:44.32 28 Alan Henderson Angus Ross 56.29 56.28 56.12 55.97 3:44.66 29 Devon Harris Michael Morgan 56.56 56.52 56.36 56.30 3:45.74 30 Greg Sebald John-Andrew Kambanis 56.62 57.13 56.45 56.37 3:46.57 31 Zoran Sokolović Ognjen Sokolović 57.36 56.62 56.32 56.31 3:46.61 32 Gregory Sun Curtis Harry 56.74 56.78 56.73 56.40 3:46.65 33 Zachary Zoller Jeff Kromenhoek 56.77 56.90 56.71 56.82 3:47.20 34 Sun Kuang-ming Cheng Jin-shan 56.84 56.86 56.71 56.93 3:47.34 35 Peter Donohoe Simon Linscheid 57.03 57.26 56.57 56.59 3:47.45 36 Keith Sudziarski Todd Schultz 57.06 57.10 56.96 57.19 3:48.31 - Jirí Dzmura Pavel Polomský 55.30 55.11 DNS - - - John Amabile Joseph Keosseian 57.35 57.69 DSQ - - - Herbert Schoesser Georg Kuttner DNS - - - -

References

External links Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (1998). "Bobsleigh: Two-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 159–60.