Bobsleigh at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Four-man

The Men's four-man bobsleigh competition at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia was held on 17 and 18 February, at the Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track on the mountain of Trebević. This was one of two bobsleigh events at these games.[1]

Four-man
at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Bobsleigh
VenueSarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track
DatesFebruary 17 — 18
Competitors96 from 15 nations
Winning time3:20.22
Medalists
 East Germany
Wolfgang Hoppe, Roland Wetzig, Dietmar Schauerhammer, Andreas Kirchner
 East Germany
Bernhard Lehmann, Bogdan Musioł, Ingo Voge, Eberhard Weise
 Switzerland
Silvio Giobellina, Heinz Stettler, Urs Salzmann, Rico Freiermuth

The gold-winning pairing of Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer from the two-man event, won their second golds as part of the four-man team. With every run, the best 3 runs were always the order of medallists.

Results

All 24 teams entered for the event completed all four runs

RankCountryAthletesRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
 East Germany (GDR-1)Wolfgang Hoppe
Roland Wetzig
Dietmar Schauerhammer
Andreas Kirchner
49.6550.1850.1850.213:20.22
 East Germany (GDR-2)Bernhard Lehmann
Bogdan Musioł
Ingo Voge
Eberhard Weise
49.6950.3350.3250.443:20.78
 Switzerland (SUI-1)Silvio Giobellina
Heinz Stettler
Urs Salzmann
Rico Freiermuth
49.9250.4850.4950.503:21.39
4 Switzerland (SUI-2)Ekkehard Fasser
Hans Märchy
Kurt Poletti
Rolf Strittmatter
50.4650.6050.8151.033:22.90
5 United States (USA-1)Jeff Jost
Joe Briski
Tom Barnes
Hal Hoye
50.8350.9750.8950.643:23.33
6 Soviet Union (URS-1)Jānis Ķipurs
Māris Poikāns
Ivars Bērzups
Aivars Šnepsts
50.1950.9651.1951.173:23.51
7 RomaniaDorin Degan
Cornel Popescu
Gheorghe Lixandru
Costel Petrariu
50.5850.8851.0651.243:23.76
8 Italy (ITA-2)Guerrino Ghedina
Stefano Ticci
Paolo Scaramuzza
Andrea Meneghin
50.6650.9351.0051.183:23.77
9 West Germany (FRG-1)Klaus Kopp
Gerhard Oechsle
Günter Neuburger
Hans-Joachim Schumacher
50.7151.0951.0151.343:24.15
10 Austria (AUT-1)Walter Delle Karth
Günter Krispel
Ferdinand Grössing
Hans Lindner
50.6051.1451.1951.283:24.21
11 Austria (AUT-2)Peter Kienast
Franz Siegl
Gerhard Redl
Christian Mark
50.8351.2751.2951.243:24.63
12 Soviet Union (URS-2)Zintis Ekmanis
Jānis Skrastiņš
Rihards Kotāns
Vladimir Aleksandrov
51.0851.3651.2851.483:25.20
13 FranceGérard Christaud-Pipola
Philippe Aurox
Philippe Stott
Patrick Lachaud
50.7751.5151.5051.483:25.26
14 West Germany (FRG-2)Anton Fischer
Franz Nießner
Hans Metzler
Uwe Eisenreich
51.0851.3951.4851.363:25.31
15 Great Britain (GBR-2)Gomer Lloyd
Howard Smith
Gus McKenzie
Peter Brugnani
51.1551.1151.4451.643:25.34
16 United States (USA-2)Brent Rushlaw
Ed Card
James Tyler
Frank Hansen
51.0451.3551.5851.533:25.50
17 Italy (ITA-1)Alex Wolf
Georg Beikircher
Pasquale Gesuito
Umberto Prato
51.1251.1951.5751.633:25.51
18 CanadaAlan MacLachlan
Clarke Flynn
Robert Wilson
David Leuty
51.4851.6651.5551.783:26.47
19 Yugoslavia (YUG-1)Zdravko Stojnić
Mario Franjić
Siniša Tubić
Nikola Korica
51.3251.9051.6551.613:26.48
20 Great Britain (GBR-1)Mike Pugh
Tony Wallington
Corrie Brown
Mark Tout
51.5251.8451.6851.893:26.93
21 SwedenCarl-Erik Eriksson
Tommy Johansson
Ulf Åkerblom
Nils Stefansson
51.5751.8251.9451.743:27.07
22 Chinese TaipeiWu Dien-cheng
Sun Kuang-ming
Wu Chung-chou
Chen Chin-san
51.4552.1552.0351.953:27.58
23 Yugoslavia (YUG-2)Nenad Prodanović
Ognjen Sokolović
Zoran Sokolović
Borislav Vujadinović
51.6251.9652.3552.383:28.31
24 JapanHiroshi Okachi
Yuji Yaku
Yuji Funayama
Satoshi Sugawara
51.9752.0152.4052.373:28.75

References

  1. "Bobsleigh at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
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