Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Bobsleigh four-man at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Bobsleigh
Venue	Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track Beijing
Date	19, 20 February
Competitors	112 from 17 nations
Teams	28
Winning time	3:54.30
Medalists
Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Candy Bauer Alexander Schüller  Germany Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Christopher Weber Christian Rasp  Germany Justin Kripps Ryan Sommer Cam Stones Ben Coakwell  Canada
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Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Mono		women
Two	men	women
Four	men
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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.^[1] 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 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.^[2]

For the men's races the IBSF ranking will be used.^[2] 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.^[2] The IBSF announced final quotas on January 24, 2022.^[3]

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[4]	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 Matthias Sommer	Germany	58.60	5	58.95	4	58.35	3	59.25	2	3:55.15	+0.85
5	9	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis	Latvia	58.70	7	58.86	2	58.41	4	59.30	5	3:55.27	+0.97
6	8	Brad Hall 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		ROC	58.54	4	59.24	8	58.81	7	59.56	14	3:56.15	+1.85
8	14	Maxim Andrianov Alexey Zaitsev	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	Kristopher Horn	United States	58.91	11	59.70	19	58.96	8	59.49	13	3:57.06	+2.76
11	11		Switzerland	59.23	13	59.22	7	59.18	12	59.44	9	3:57.07	+2.77
12	10	Benjamin Maier 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 Ciprian Daroczi	Romania	58.87	10	59.55	13	59.30	14	59.93	18	3:57.65	+3.35
	17	Carlo Valdes Hakeem Abdul-Saboor	United States	59.26	14	59.56	15	59.39	17	59.44	9	3:57.65	+3.35
15	3	Lorenzo Bilotti	Italy	59.36	17	59.72	20	59.34	15	59.28	4	3:57.70	+3.40
16	25		China	59.38	18	59.65	18	59.47	19	59.47	12	3:57.97	+3.67
17	27	Li Chunjian 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 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 Dorian Hauterville	France	59.29	15	59.53	12	59.29	13	1:00.06	19	3:58.17	+3.87
20	1	Edson Bindilatti 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	N/A		2:59.16	N/A
22	22	Markus Treichl Markus Glueck	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 Fabio Badraun	Switzerland	59.71	23	1:00.01	23	59.57	20			2:59.29
25	24	Suk Young-jin	South Korea	59.74	25	1:00.31	26	59.91	25			2:59.96
26	23		Netherlands	59.85	26	1:00.07	24	1:00.08	27			3:00.00
27	28	Delmas Obou	Italy	1:00.25	27	1:00.33	27	1:00.07	26			3:00.65
28	26		Jamaica	1:00.80	28	1:01.39	28	1:01.23	28			3:03.42

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