# Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Four-man

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 qualified | Countries | Athletes total | Nation |
| 3 | 2 | 24 | Germany Canada |
| 2 | 7 | 56 | ROC United States Switzerland Austria South Korea China Italy |
| 1 | 8 | 32 | Great Britain Latvia France Czech Republic Netherlands Brazil Romania Jamaica |
| 28 | 17 | 112 | |

## Results

| Rank | Bib | Athletes | Country | Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Run 3 | Rank | Run 4 | Rank | Total | Behind |
| | 4 | Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Candy Bauer Alexander Schüller | Germany | 58.29 | 2 | 58.71 | 1 | 58.17 | 1 | 59.13 | 1 | 3:54.30 | — |
| | 6 | Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Christopher Weber Christian Rasp | Germany | 58.13 TR | 1 | 58.90 | 3 | 58.34 | 2 | 59.30 | 5 | 3:54.67 | +0.37 |
| | 5 | Justin Kripps Ryan Sommer Cam Stones Ben Coakwell | Canada | 58.38 | 3 | 59.00 | 5 | 58.44 | 5 | 59.27 | 3 | 3:55.09 | +0.79 |
| 4 | 12 | Christoph Hafer Michael Salzer Matthias Sommer Tobias Schneider | Germany | 58.60 | 5 | 58.95 | 4 | 58.35 | 3 | 59.25 | 2 | 3:55.15 | +0.85 |
| 5 | 9 | Oskars Ķibermanis Dāvis Spriņģis Matīss Miknis Edgars Nemme | Latvia | 58.70 | 7 | 58.86 | 2 | 58.41 | 4 | 59.30 | 5 | 3:55.27 | +0.97 |
| 6 | 8 | Brad Hall Taylor Lawrence Nick Gleeson Greg Cackett | Great Britain | 58.60 | 5 | 59.09 | 6 | 58.65 | 6 | 59.38 | 7 | 3:55.72 | +1.42 |
| 7 | 7 | Rostislav Gaitiukevich Mikhail Mordasov Pavel Travkin Aleksei Laptev | ROC | 58.54 | 4 | 59.24 | 8 | 58.81 | 7 | 59.56 | 14 | 3:56.15 | +1.85 |
| 8 | 14 | Maxim Andrianov Alexey Zaitsev Vladislav Zharovtsev Dmitrii Lopin | ROC | 58.82 | 9 | 59.30 | 9 | 59.03 | 9 | 59.40 | 8 | 3:56.55 | +2.25 |
| 9 | 15 | Christopher Spring Cody Sorensen Sam Giguère Mike Evelyn | Canada | 59.10 | 12 | 59.33 | 10 | 59.10 | 10 | 59.46 | 11 | 3:56.99 | +2.69 |
| 10 | 13 | Hunter Church Joshua Williamson Kristopher Horn Charlie Volker | United States | 58.91 | 11 | 59.70 | 19 | 58.96 | 8 | 59.49 | 13 | 3:57.06 | +2.76 |
| 11 | 11 | Michael Vogt Luca Rolli Cyril Bieri Sandro Michel | Switzerland | 59.23 | 13 | 59.22 | 7 | 59.18 | 12 | 59.44 | 9 | 3:57.07 | +2.77 |
| 12 | 10 | Benjamin Maier Sascha Stepan Markus Sammer Kristian Huber | Austria | 58.76 | 8 | 59.46 | 11 | 59.17 | 11 | 1:00.10 | 20 | 3:57.49 | +3.19 |
| 13 | 2 | Mihai Tentea Raul Dobre Ciprian Daroczi Cristian Radu | Romania | 58.87 | 10 | 59.55 | 13 | 59.30 | 14 | 59.93 | 18 | 3:57.65 | +3.35 |
| 13 | 17 | Frank Del Duca Carlo Valdes James Reed Hakeem Abdul-Saboor | United States | 59.26 | 14 | 59.56 | 15 | 59.39 | 17 | 59.44 | 9 | 3:57.65 | +3.35 |
| 15 | 3 | Patrick Baumgartner Eric Fantazzini Alex Verginer Lorenzo Bilotti | Italy | 59.36 | 17 | 59.72 | 20 | 59.34 | 15 | 59.28 | 4 | 3:57.70 | +3.40 |
| 16 | 25 | Sun Kaizhi Wu Qingze Wu Zhitao Zhen Heng | China | 59.38 | 18 | 59.65 | 18 | 59.47 | 19 | 59.47 | 12 | 3:57.97 | +3.67 |
| 17 | 27 | Li Chunjian Ding Song Ye Jielong Shi Hao | China | 59.31 | 16 | 59.55 | 13 | 59.46 | 18 | 59.66 | 17 | 3:57.98 | +3.68 |
| 18 | 20 | Won Yun-jong Kim Jin-su Jung Hyun-woo Kim Dong-hyun | South Korea | 59.45 | 19 | 59.60 | 16 | 59.38 | 16 | 59.59 | 15 | 3:58.02 | +3.72 |
| 19 | 18 | Romain Heinrich Lionel Lefebvre Dorian Hauterville Jérôme Laporal | France | 59.29 | 15 | 59.53 | 12 | 59.29 | 13 | 1:00.06 | 19 | 3:58.17 | +3.87 |
| 20 | 1 | Edson Bindilatti Rafael Souza da Silva Erick Jerônimo Edson Martins | Brazil | 59.49 | 20 | 59.60 | 16 | 59.78 | 23 | 59.61 | 16 | 3:58.48 | +4.18 |
| 21 | 21 | Dominik Dvořák Jan Šindelář Jakub Nosek Dominik Záleský | Czech Republic | 59.71 | 23 | 59.80 | 21 | 59.65 | 22 | — | — | 2:59.16 | — |
| 22 | 22 | Markus Treichl Markus Glueck Sebastian Mitterer Robert Eckschlager | Austria | 59.53 | 21 | 1:00.07 | 24 | 59.59 | 21 | — | — | 2:59.19 | — |
| 23 | 16 | Taylor Austin Daniel Sunderland Chris Patrician Jacob Dearborn | Canada | 59.67 | 22 | 59.81 | 22 | 59.79 | 24 | — | — | 2:59.27 | — |
| 24 | 19 | Simon Friedli Adrian Fassler Fabio Badraun Andreas Haas | Switzerland | 59.71 | 23 | 1:00.01 | 23 | 59.57 | 20 | — | — | 2:59.29 | — |
| 25 | 24 | Suk Young-jin Kim Hyeong-geun Kim Tae-yang Shin Ye-chan | South Korea | 59.74 | 25 | 1:00.31 | 26 | 59.91 | 25 | — | — | 2:59.96 | — |
| 26 | 23 | Ivo de Bruin Jelen Franjic Janko Franjic Dennis Veenker | Netherlands | 59.85 | 26 | 1:00.07 | 24 | 1:00.08 | 27 | — | — | 3:00.00 | — |
| 27 | 28 | Mattia Variola Robert Mircea Alex Pagnini Delmas Obou | Italy | 1:00.25 | 27 | 1:00.33 | 27 | 1:00.07 | 26 | — | — | 3:00.65 | — |
| 28 | 26 | Shanwayne Stephens Ashley Watson Rolando Reid Matthew Wekpe | Jamaica | 1:00.80 | 28 | 1:01.39 | 28 | 1:01.23 | 28 | — | — | 3:03.42 | — |