The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 24 and 25 February, at Cesana Pariol.
Records While the IOC does not consider bobsled times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.
Prior to this competition, the existing Cesana Pariol track records were as follows.
Type Date Team Time Start 23 January 2005 Martin Annen Andi GeesBeat Hefti Cedric Grand 4.68 Run 23 January 2005 Martin Annen Andi GeesBeat Hefti Cedric Grand 55.54
The following track records were established during this event.
Type Date Run Team Time Run 24 February 1 Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic Steve Mesler Brock Kreitzburg 55.43 24 February 1 Pierre Lueders Ken KotykMorgan Alexander Lascelles Brown 55.34 24 February 1 Alexandre ZoubkovPhilippe Egorov Alexei Seliverstov Alexey Voevoda 55.22 24 February 1 André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze 55.20 25 February 3 Rene Spies Christoph Heyder Enrico Kuehn Alexander Metzger 54.91 25 February 3 André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze 54.80
Results
Twenty-six sleds were entered in the four-man event, with one, from New Zealand, not starting the first run after crashing in training.
After the third run, only the top twenty sleds by combined time were allowed to compete in the final run. The final ranking was determined by the combined time of each sled over the four runs.
Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze 55.20 55.30 54.80 55.12 3:40.42 Alexandr ZubkovFilipp Yegorov Alexei Seliverstov Alexey Voevoda 55.22 55.45 54.87 55.01 3:40.55 Martin Annen Thomas Lamparter Beat Hefti Cedric Grand 55.26 55.37 55.00 55.20 3:40.83 4 Pierre Lueders Ken KotykMorgan Alexander Lascelles Brown 55.34 55.43 54.95 55.20 3:40.92 5 Rene Spies Christoph Heyder Enrico Kühn Alexander Metzger 55.47 55.48 54.91 55.18 3:41.04 6 Steve Holcomb Curtis Tomasevicz Bill Schuffenhauer Lorenzo Smith III 55.46 55.50 55.14 55.26 3:41.36 7 Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic Steve Mesler Brock Kreitzburg 55.43 55.56 55.04 55.41 3:41.44 8 Ivo Rueegg Andi Gees Roman Handschin Christian Aebli 55.65 55.63 55.22 55.30 3:41.80 9 Yevgeni Popov Sergey Golubev Pyotr Makarchuk Dmitriy Stepushkin 55.87 55.57 55.16 55.33 3:41.93 10 Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens Mārcis Rullis Jānis Ozols 55.88 55.69 55.51 55.51 3:42.59 11 Fabrizio Tosini Luca Ottolino Antonio de Sanctis Giorgio Morbidelli 55.80 55.73 55.57 55.51 3:42.61 12 Simone Bertazzo Samuele Romanini Matteo Torchio Omar Sacco 55.63 56.13 55.46 55.62 3:42.84 13 Wolfgang Stampfer Klaus Seelos Juergen Loacker Hans-Peter Welz 55.77 55.83 55.73 55.53 3:42.86 14 Ivo Danilevic Radek Řechka Roman Gomola Jan Kobian 55.92 55.83 55.66 55.56 3:42.97 15 Dawid Kupczyk Michal Zblewski Mariusz Latkowski Marcin Płacheta 55.89 55.79 55.85 55.49 3:43.02 16 Arend Glas Vincent Kortbeek Sybren Jansma Arno Klaassen 55.82 56.08 55.78 55.51 3:43.19 17 Lee Johnston Martin Wright Karl Johnston Dan Humphries 56.06 56.07 55.93 55.32 3:43.38 18 Serge Despres Nathan Cunningham Steve Larsen David Bissett 56.10 56.15 55.69 55.58 3:43.52 19 Bruno Mingeon Christophe Fouquet Pierre-Alain Menneron Alexandre Vanhoutte 56.09 56.08 55.87 55.71 3:43.75 20 Milan Jagnesak Viktor Rajek Andrej Benda Robert Krestanko 56.29 56.13 56.26 55.98 3:44.66 21 Mihails Arhipovs Intars Dicmanis Māris Bogdanovs Reinis Rozitis 56.34 56.54 56.13 — — 22 Nicolae Istrate Adrian Duminicel Gabriel Popa Ioan Danut Dovalciuc 56.61 56.70 56.41 — — 23 Ivan Šola Slaven Krajačić Alek Osmanović Jurica GrabušićDejan Vojnović 56.67 56.57 56.51 — — 24 Peter O'Malley Joseph Mullins Patrick Mullins John O’Donoghue 56.99 56.73 56.45 — — 25 Ricardo Raschini Márcio Silva Claudinei Quirino Edson Bindilatti 60.31 58.51 60.12 — — — Alan Henderson Aaron Orangi Steve Harrison Matthew Dallow DNS — — — —
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