The four-man competition in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February (heats 1 and 2) and 20 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer, and Alexander Schüller of Germany won the gold medal, and Friedrich thereby successfully defended his 2018 Olympic title. Germany-2 driven by Johannes Lochner won the silver medal, and Canada-1, driven by Justin Kripps, won the bronze.

There were two silver medals awarded in 2018. Nico Walther with Germany-2 retired from competitions, but Won Yun-jong with South Korea qualified for the Olympics. Friedrich is the 2021 World champion. Benjamin Maier and Austria is the silver medalist, and Lochner and Germany-2 are the bronze medalists. The 2021–22 Bobsleigh World Cup was completely dominated by Friedrich, who with his team won seven events out of eight races. The eighth event was won by Oskars Ķibermanis and Latvia. Friedrich won the World Cup, followed by Kripps with Canada and Rostislav Gaitiukevich with Russia.

Qualification

There was a quota of 28 sleds available for the men's two-man event. Qualification was based on the world rankings of the 2021/2022 season between 15 October 2020 and 16 January 2022. Pilots must have competed in six different races on three different tracks and been ranked in at least five of those races. Additionally, the pilot must been ranked among the top 50 for the man's events or top 40 for the women's events.

For the men's races the IBSF ranking will be used. The top two nations in the rankings earned three sleds each. The next seven nations earned two sleds each, while the next eight earned one sled each. The IBSF announced final quotas on January 24, 2022.

Summary Sleds qualifiedCountriesAthletes totalNation322427561832 28 17 112

Results Rank Bib Athletes Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank TotalFinal results Behind 4 Francesco FriedrichThorsten MargisArndt Bauer Alexander Schüller 58.29 2 58.71 1 58.17 1 59.13 1 3:54.30 — 6 Johannes LochnerFlorian BauerChristopher WeberChristian Rasp 58.13 TR 1 58.90 3 58.34 2 59.30 5 3:54.67 +0.37 5 Justin KrippsRyan SommerCam StonesBen Coakwell 58.38 3 59.00 5 58.44 5 59.27 3 3:55.09 +0.79 4 12 Christoph HaferMichael SalzerMatthias SommerTobias Schneider 58.60 5 58.95 4 58.35 3 59.25 2 3:55.15 +0.85 5 9 Oskars ĶibermanisDāvis SpriņģisMatīss MiknisEdgars Nemme 58.70 7 58.86 2 58.41 4 59.30 5 3:55.27 +0.97 6 8 Brad HallTaylor LawrenceNick GleesonGreg Cackett 58.60 5 59.09 6 58.65 6 59.38 7 3:55.72 +1.42 7 7 Rostislav GaitiukevichMikhail MordasovPavel TravkinAleksei Laptev 58.54 4 59.24 8 58.81 7 59.56 14 3:56.15 +1.85 8 14 Maxim AndrianovAlexey ZaitsevVladislav ZharovtsevDmitrii Lopin 58.82 9 59.30 9 59.03 9 59.40 8 3:56.55 +2.25 9 15 Christopher SpringCody SorensenSam GiguèreMike Evelyn 59.10 12 59.33 10 59.10 10 59.46 11 3:56.99 +2.69 10 13 Hunter ChurchJoshua WilliamsonKristopher HornCharlie Volker 58.91 11 59.70 19 58.96 8 59.49 13 3:57.06 +2.76 11 11 Michael VogtLuca RolliCyril BieriSandro Michel 59.23 13 59.22 7 59.18 12 59.44 9 3:57.07 +2.77 12 10 Benjamin MaierSascha StepanMarkus SammerKristian Huber 58.76 8 59.46 11 59.17 11 20 3:57.49 +3.1913 2 Mihai TenteaRaul DobreCiprian DarocziCristian Radu 58.87 10 59.55 13 59.30 14 59.93 18 3:57.65 +3.35 17 Frank Del DucaCarlo ValdesJames ReedHakeem Abdul-Saboor 59.26 14 59.56 15 59.39 17 59.44 9 3:57.65 +3.35 15 3 Patrick BaumgartnerEric FantazziniAlex VerginerLorenzo Bilotti 59.36 17 59.72 20 59.34 15 59.28 4 3:57.70 +3.40 16 25 Sun KaizhiWu QingzeWu ZhitaoZhen Heng 59.38 18 59.65 18 59.47 19 59.47 12 3:57.97 +3.67 17 27 Li ChunjianDing SongYe JielongShi Hao 59.31 16 59.55 13 59.46 18 59.66 17 3:57.98 +3.68 18 20 Won Yun-jongKim Jin-suJung Hyun-wooKim Dong-hyun 59.45 19 59.60 16 59.38 16 59.59 15 3:58.02 +3.72 19 18 Romain HeinrichLionel LefebvreDorian HautervilleJérôme Laporal 59.29 15 59.53 12 59.29 13 19 3:58.17 +3.87 20 1 Edson BindilattiRafael Souza da SilvaErick ViannaEdson Martins 59.49 20 59.60 16 59.78 23 59.61 16 3:58.48 +4.18 21 21 Dominik DvořákJan ŠindelářJakub NosekDominik Záleský 59.71 23 59.80 21 59.65 22 colspan=2 rowspan=8 2:59.16 rowspan=8 22 22 Markus TreichlMarkus GlueckSebastian MittererRobert Eckschlager 59.53 21 24 59.59 21 2:59.19 23 16 Taylor AustinDaniel SunderlandChris PatricianJacob Dearborn 59.67 22 59.81 22 59.79 24 2:59.27 24 19 Simon FriedliAdrian FasslerFabio BadraunAndreas Haas 59.71 23 23 59.57 20 2:59.29 25 24 Suk Young-jinKim Hyeong-geunKim Tae-yangShin Ye-chan 59.74 25 26 59.91 25 2:59.96 26 23 Ivo de BruinJelen FranjićJanko FranjićDennis Veenker 59.85 26 24 27 3:00.00 27 28 Mattia VariolaRobert MirceaAlex PagniniDelmas Obou 27 27 26 3:00.65 28 26 Shanwayne StephensAshley WatsonRolando ReidMatthew Wekpe 28 28 28 3:03.42

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