# Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Four-man

The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 22 and 23 February, at Spiral. Weather led to the cancellation of the second run on the opening day, meaning the competition had three total runs.

## Results

| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total |
| | Germany (GER-2) | Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel | 52.70 | 52.90 | 53.81 | 2:39.41 |
| | Switzerland (SUI-1) | Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz | 53.13 | 53.15 | 53.73 | 2:40.01 |
| | Great Britain | Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood | 52.77 | 53.58 | 53.71 | 2:40.06 |
| | France | Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert | 53.13 | 53.30 | 53.63 | 2:40.06 |
| 5 | United States (USA-1) | Brian Shimer Chip Minton Randy Jones Garrett Hines | 52.93 | 53.42 | 53.73 | 2:40.08 |
| 6 | Latvia | Sandis Prūsis Egils Bojārs Jānis Ozols Jānis Elsiņš | 52.98 | 53.50 | 53.78 | 2:40.26 |
| 7 | Switzerland (SUI-2) | Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Thomas Handschin Cédric Grand | 52.88 | 53.47 | 53.93 | 2:40.28 |
| 8 | Germany (GER-1) | Harald Czudaj Torsten Voss Steffen Görmer Alexander Szelig | 53.12 | 53.50 | 53.70 | 2:40.32 |
| 9 | Canada (CAN-1) | Pierre Lueders Ricardo Greenidge Jack Pyc Dave MacEachern | 53.14 | 53.44 | 53.81 | 2:40.39 |
| 9 | Austria (AUT-1) | Hubert Schösser Peter Leismüller Erwin Arnold Martin Schützenauer | 53.10 | 53.50 | 53.79 | 2:40.39 |
| 11 | Canada (CAN-2) | Chris Lori Ian Danney Matt Hindle Ben Hindle | 53.52 | 53.69 | 53.93 | 2:41.14 |
| 12 | United States (USA-2) | Jim Herberich Darrin Steele John Kasper Robert Olesen | 53.74 | 53.72 | 53.81 | 2:41.27 |
| 13 | Czech Republic | Pavel Puškár Peter Kondrát Pavel Polomský Jan Kobián | 53.61 | 53.80 | 53.88 | 2:41.29 |
| 14 | Italy (ITA-1) | Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia Massimiliano Rota Marco Menchini | 53.84 | 53.68 | 53.91 | 2:41.43 |
| 15 | Japan (JPN-1) | Naomi Takewaki Hiroaki Ohishi Takashi Ohori Masanori Inoue | 53.73 | 53.87 | 53.95 | 2:41.55 |
| 16 | Japan (JPN-2) | Toshio Wakita Yasuo Nakamura Toshiya Onoda Shinji Aoto | 54.03 | 53.66 | 54.28 | 2:41.97 |
| 17 | Norway | Arnfinn Kristiansen Jørn Stian Dahl Peter Kildal Dagfinn Aarskog | 53.96 | 53.78 | 54.33 | 2:42.07 |
| 18 | Austria (AUT-2) | Kurt Einberger Thomas Bachler Georg Kuttner Michael Müller | 53.92 | 53.83 | 54.39 | 2:42.14 |
| 19 | Russia | Pavel Shcheglovsky Aleksey Seliverstov Vladislav Posedkin Konstantin Dyomin | 53.72 | 53.95 | 54.71 | 2:42.38 |
| 20 | Italy (ITA-2) | Fabrizio Tosini Andrea Pais de Libera Enrico Costa Sergio Chianella | 54.07 | 54.09 | 54.86 | 2:43.02 |
| 21 | Jamaica | Dudley Stokes Winston Watt Chris Stokes Wayne Thomas | 54.41 | 54.55 | 54.80 | 2:43.76 |
| 22 | Poland | Tomasz Żyła Dawid Kupczyk Krzysztof Sieńko Tomasz Gatka | 54.71 | 54.45 | 54.63 | 2:43.79 |
| 23 | Australia | Jason Giobbi Scott Walker Ted Polglaze Adam Barclay | 54.72 | 54.93 | 55.23 | 2:44.88 |
| 24 | Hungary | Nicholas Frankl Péter Pallai Zsolt Zsombor Bertalan Pintér | 55.16 | 54.82 | 54.94 | 2:44.92 |
| 25 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zoran Sokolović Nihad Mameledzija Edin Krupalija Mario Franjić | 55.26 | 55.11 | 55.30 | 2:45.67 |
| 26 | Chinese Taipei | Sun Kuang-ming Duh Maw-sheng Chang Mau-san Cheng Jin-shan | 55.30 | 55.13 | 55.52 | 2:45.95 |
| 27 | Romania | Florian Enache Marian Chițescu Iulian Păcioianu Mihai Dumitraşcu | 55.01 | 55.37 | 55.68 | 2:46.06 |
| 28 | Monaco | Albert, Prince Grimaldi Pascal Camia Jean-François Calmes Gilbert Bessi | 55.58 | 55.70 | 55.86 | 2:47.14 |
| 29 | Virgin Islands | Keith Sudziarski Christian Brown Paul Zar Jeff Kromenhoek | 55.80 | 55.52 | 55.84 | 2:47.16 |
| 30 | Ireland | Jeff Pamplin Simon Linscheid Garry Power Terry McHugh | 55.79 | 55.57 | 55.87 | 2:47.23 |
| 31 | Greece | Greg Sebald Anastasios Papakonstantinou Peter Kolotouros John-Andrew Kambanis | 55.94 | 56.18 | 56.14 | 2:48.26 |
| - | Puerto Rico | Liston Bochette Jorge Bonnet José Ferrer Joseph Keosseian | 56.45 | 55.96 | DQ | - |