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.
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 track records for the Utah Olympic Park Track were as follows.
Type Date Team Time Start 28 November 1998 Andre Lange Christoph HeyderEnrico Kühn Lars Behrendt 4.74 Run 25 February 2001 Andre Lange Lars BehrendtRene Hoppe Carsten Embach 46.57
The following track records were established during this event.
Type Date Run Team Time Start 22 February 1 Martin Annen Silvio Schäufelberger Beat Hefti Cédric Grand 4.73 22 February 2 Martin Annen Silvio Schäufelberger Beat Hefti Cédric Grand 4.72
Results
Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total André Lange Enrico Kühn Kevin Kuske Carsten Embach 46.71 46.64 46.84 47.32 3:07.51 Todd Hays Randy Jones Bill Schuffenhauer Garrett Hines 46.65 46.61 47.22 47.33 3:07.81 Brian Shimer Mike Kohn Doug Sharp Dan Steele 46.83 46.82 46.98 47.23 3:07.86 4 Martin Annen Silvio Schäufelberger Beat Hefti Cédric Grand 46.72 46.63 47.11 47.49 3:07.95 5 Bruno Mingeon Éric Le Chanony Christophe Fouquet Alexandre Arbez 46.92 46.86 47.25 47.53 3:08.56 6 Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Guido Acklin Urs Aeberhard 46.71 46.93 47.33 47.62 3:08.59 7 Sandis Prusis Marcis Rullis Janis Silarajs Jānis Ozols 46.99 46.82 47.60 47.65 3:09.06 8 Yevgeny Popov Pyotr Makarchuk Sergey Golubyov Dmitry Styopushkin 47.14 46.98 47.45 47.58 3:09.15 9 Pierre Lueders Ken LeBlanc Giulio Zardo Pascal Caron 47.12 46.97 47.41 47.67 3:09.17 10 Bruno Thomas Michel André Thibault Giroud Philippe Paviot 46.88 47.03 47.47 47.82 3:09.20 11 Neil Scarisbrick Scott Rider Philip Goedluck Dean Ward 47.09 47.05 47.44 47.79 3:09.37 12 Gatis Guts Intars Dicmanis Maris Rozentals Gunars Bumbulis 46.99 46.99 47.80 47.66 3:09.44 13 Wolfgang Stampfer Michael Müller Klaus Seelos Martin Schützenauer 47.19 47.27 47.51 47.60 3:09.57 14 Lee Johnston Phil Harries Dave McCalla Paul Attwood 47.06 47.32 47.41 47.98 3:09.77 15 Pavel Puškár Milan Studnicka Peter Kondrát Ivo Danilevic Jan Kobián 47.23 47.17 47.58 47.95 3:09.93 16 Aleksandr Zubkov Aleksey Seliverstov Filipp Yegorov Aleksey Andryunin 47.26 47.09 47.76 48.04 3:10.15 17 Arend Glas Arnold van Calker Timothy Beck Marcel Welten 47.15 47.18 47.82 48.23 3:10.38 18 Tomasz Zyla Dawid Kupczyk Krzysztof Sienko Tomasz Gatka 47.22 47.48 47.93 48.10 3:10.73 19 Fabrizio Tosini Andrea Pais de Libera Massimiliano Rota Giona Cividino 47.48 47.40 48.11 47.97 3:10.96 20 Hiroshi Suzuki Shinji Miura Shinji Doigawa Masanori Inoue 47.65 47.46 47.92 48.14 3:11.17 21 Florian Enache Adrian Duminicel Iulian Pacioianu Teodor Demetriad 47.59 47.66 48.19 48.22 3:11.66 22 Oleh Polyvach Bohdan Zamostianyk Oleksandr Ivanyshyn Yuriy Zhuravskiy 48.03 48.09 48.76 48.89 3:13.77 23 Nicholas Frankl Márton Gyulai Péter Pallai Bertalan Pintér Zsolt Zsombor 48.26 48.18 49.03 49.08 3:14.55 24 Milan Jagnešák Brano Prieložný Marián Vanderka Róbert Krestanko 47.80 47.88 51.10 48.64 3:15.42 25 Boris Radenovic Dalibor Ðurdic Rašo Vucinic Vuk Radenovic 48.66 48.79 48.97 49.13 3:15.55 26 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 Eric Maleson Matheus Inocêncio Edson Bindilatti Cristiano Rogério Paes 48.91 48.76 49.44 49.62 3:16.73 28 Albert, Prince Grimaldi Charles Oula Sébastien Gattuso Patrice Servelle Jean-François Calmes 47.82 48.02 52.44 48.91 3:17.19 29 Chen Chin-san Chen Chien-li Lin Ruei-ming Chen Chien-sheng 48.86 49.19 50.03 49.68 3:17.76 - Arnfinn Kristiansen Ole Christian Strømberg Bjarne Røyland Mariusz Musial 47.02 47.18 47.84 DSQ - - Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Franz Sagmeister Stefan Barucha 46.91 46.77 DNS - - - Alan Henderson Steve Harrison Angus Ross Mark Edmond 50.67 DNS - - - - Keith Sudziarski Paul Zar Christian Brown Mike Savitch 51.36 DNS - - -
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