# Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Two-man

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