The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was held on 23 and 24 February, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run.

Results

Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musioł Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt 59.86 60.03 59.73 60.30 3:59.92 Erich Schärer Ueli Bächli Ruedi Marti Sepp Benz 60.31 60.41 60.02 60.13 4:00.87 Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner 60.24 60.35 60.04 60.34 4:00.97 4 Fritz Sperling Heinrich Bergmüller Franz Rednak Bernhard Purkrabek 60.75 60.77 60.41 60.69 4:02.62 5 Walter Delle Karth Franz Paulweber Gerd Zaunschirm Kurt Oberhöller 60.91 61.12 60.25 60.67 4:02.95 6 Hans Hiltebrand Ulrich Schindler Walter Rahm Armin Baumgartner 61.13 61.00 60.54 61.02 4:03.69 7 Peter Hell Hans Wagner Heinz Busche Walter Barfuß 61.14 61.22 60.57 61.47 4:04.40 8 Dragoș Panaitescu-Rapan Dorel Cristudor Sandu Mitrofan Gheorghe Lixandru 61.42 61.32 60.61 61.33 4:04.68 9 Jonnie Woodall Tony Wallington Corrie Brown John Howell 61.44 61.42 60.98 61.08 4:04.92 10 Alois Schnorbus Lothar Pongratz Jürgen Hofmann Martin Meinberg 61.54 61.47 60.93 61.21 4:05.15 11 Andrea Jory Edmund Lanziner Georg Werth Giovanni Modena 61.26 61.66 61.01 61.37 4:05.30 12 Bob Hickey Jeff Jordan Willie Davenport Jeff Gadley 61.49 61.81 61.04 61.77 4:06.11 13 Howard Siler, Jr. Joe Tyler Jeff Jost Dick Nalley 61.49 61.69 61.30 61.72 4:06.20 14 Constantin Iancu Ion Duminicel Doru Frîncu Constantin Obreja 61.85 62.16 61.74 61.76 4:07.51 15 Jackie Price Gomer Lloyd Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn Nick Phipps 61.79 61.90 62.11 61.89 4:07.69 - Carl-Erik Eriksson Peter Jansson Runald Beckman Kenth Rönn 61.01 61.00 60.36 DQ - - Martin Glynn Alan MacLachlan Serge Cantin Robert Wilson 61.76 62.25 DNF - -

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