Editing 1998 Winter Olympics (section)

===Bobsleigh===
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The [[bobsleigh]] competitions took place at [[Spiral (bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton)|the Spiral]], in [[Iizuna, Nagano|Iizuna]], just north of Nagano City. The Spiral course measured 1700 m in length, with fifteen curves, descended 113 m from start to finish, and included two short uphill sections. The two events were the two-man and four-man, for men only. Female competitors would begin competing in the [[Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Two-woman|two woman]] events at the subsequent Winter Olympics, the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in Salt Lake City.

In all, 156 athletes took part from 28 countries. The bobsleigh events resulted in two ties, for the two-man gold and for the four-man bronze. This was the first time in Olympic bobsleigh history that there were ties for the medal positions. [[Christoph Langen]] and [[Markus Zimmermann]] won bronze in the two-man competition and were part of the winning four-man team. In all, [[Germany at the 1998 Winter Olympics|Germany]] win one gold and one bronze; [[Italy at the 1998 Winter Olympics|Italy]] and [[Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympics|Canada]] also won one gold each when the two-man team. Six team in all won medals. The first time since the [[1968 Winter Olympics]] did more than four countries win bobsleigh medals. In addition, Germany and Switzerland were the only two countries to place two sleds in the top ten of either event.<ref name="bobsleigh sr">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/BOB/|title=Bobsleigh at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games|website=sports-reference.com|access-date=28 April 2019|archive-date=17 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417041409/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/BOB/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The 1996 and 1997 [[IBSF World Championships (bobsleigh and skeleton)|Bobsleigh World Champions]] were teams from Germany and Italy respectively. However, [[Günther Huber]] and [[Antonio Tartaglia]] from Italy tied with the two-man team from Canada, [[Pierre Lueders]]: and [[Dave MacEachern]] for the gold medal, each with combined times of 3:37.24. No silver medal was awarded. The German team of Christoph Langen and Markus Zimmermann were 0.65 seconds behind, and were awarded the bronze.

In the four-man event, bad weather restricted the competition to three runs only. The German team of Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, [[Marco Jakobs]] and [[Olaf Hampel]] completed the three runs in 2:39.41 for the gold medal. The Swiss team of [[Marcel Rohner (bobsleigh)|Marcel Rohner]], [[Markus Nüssli]], [[Markus Wasser]], and [[Beat Seitz]] finished second with a time of 2:40.01. Two teams, were awarded bronze medals after completing the three runs in 2:40.06. These were the team from Great Britain, made up of [[Sean Olsson]], [[Dean Ward (bobsleigh)|Dean Ward]], [[Courtney Rumbolt]], and [[Paul Attwood]]; and the team from France, composed of [[Bruno Mingeon]], [[Emmanuel Hostache]], [[Éric Le Chanony]], and [[Max Robert]].