Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics
Bobsleigh is an event in the Winter Olympic Games where a two- or four-person team drives a specially designed sled down an ice track, with the winning team completing the route with the fastest time. The event has been featured since the first Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix, France, with the exception of the 1960 games in Squaw Valley when the organizing committee decided not to build a track in order to reduce expenses. Other than that exception, the four-man competition has been competed at every game (in 1928, it was a five-man competition). The two-man event was introduced at the 1932 Lake Placid games and a two-woman event was first contested at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics | |
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Governing body | IBSF |
Events | 3 (men: 2; women: 1) |
Games | |
Events
Event | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | Years |
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Four-man | • | •[1] | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 22 | |
Two-man | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 20 | |||
Two-woman | • | • | • | • | • | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total events | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Medal leaders

Athletes who won at least one gold medal and one silver or bronze medal are listed below.
Men
Athlete | NOC | Event | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Kevin Kuske | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2002–2018 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
André Lange | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2002–2010 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Bernhard Germeshausen | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1976–1980 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Meinhard Nehmer | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1976–1980 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Wolfgang Hoppe | ![]() ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1984–1994 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Eugenio Monti | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1956, 1964–1968 |
2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Donat Acklin | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1992–1994 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Gustav Weder | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1992–1994 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Markus Zimmermann | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1992–2002 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Dietmar Schauerhammer | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1984–1988 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Christoph Langen | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1992, 1998–2002 |
2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Luciano De Paolis | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1968 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Billy Fiske | ![]() |
4-man 5-man |
1928–1932 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Clifford Gray | ![]() |
4-man 5-man |
1928–1932 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Olaf Hampel | ![]() |
4-man | 1994–1998 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Lorenz Nieberl | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1952 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Andreas Ostler | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1952 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Francesco Friedrich | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Thorsten Margis | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Bogdan Musiol | ![]() ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1980–1992 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
Joseph Benz | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1976–1980 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Bernhard Lehmann | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1976, 1984–1988 |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Erich Schärer | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1976–1980 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Steven Holcomb | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2010–2014 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Patrick Martin | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1948–1952 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Wolfgang Zimmerer | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1972–1976 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Joseph Beerli | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1936 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1980 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pierre Lueders | ![]() |
2-man | 1994–2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Kurt Meier | ![]() |
4-man | 1988–1994 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Jay O'Brien | ![]() |
4-man 5-man |
1928–1932 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Martin Putze | ![]() |
4-man | 2006–2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Curtis Tomasevicz | ![]() |
4-man | 2010–2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Beat Hefti | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2002-2016, 2014 |
1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Oskars Melbārdis | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2014–2018 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Peter Utzschneider | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1972–1976 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Jean Wicki | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1968–1972 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Carsten Embach | ![]() |
4-man | 1994–2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Edy Hubacher | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1972 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Günther Huber | ![]() |
2-man | 1994–1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Jānis Ķipurs | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Andreas Kirchner | ![]() |
4-man | 1980–1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Vladimir Koslov | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Jānis Strenga | ![]() |
4-man 2-man |
2014–2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Roland Wetzig | ![]() |
4-man | 1980–1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Women
Athlete | NOC | Event | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Kaillie Humphries | ![]() |
2-woman | 2010–2018 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Heather Moyse | ![]() |
2-woman | 2010–2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Sandra Kiriasis | ![]() |
2-woman | 2002–2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Medal table
Updated after 2018 Winter Olympics.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 13 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
2 | ![]() | 10 | 10 | 11 | 31 |
3 | ![]() | 7 | 10 | 8 | 25 |
4 | ![]() | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
5 | ![]() | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
6 | ![]() | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
8 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
9 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
10 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
12 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
14 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
15 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (16 nations) | 49 | 46 | 47 | 142 |
- Notes
- 2 gold medals and no silver were awarded at 1998 two-man event
- 2 bronze medals awarded at 1998 four-man event
- 2 gold medals and no silver were awarded at 2018 two-man event
- 2 silver medals and no bronze were awarded at 2018 four-man event
Number of bobsledders by nation
Nation | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | Years |
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![]() | – | 10 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 21 | |
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![]() | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 2 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
Nations | 5 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 13 | - | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 23 | 25 | 30 | 28 | 34 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 56 |
Bobsledders | 39 | 115 | 41 | 99 | 71 | 71 | 93 | - | 81 | 90 | 79 | 93 | 78 | 111 | 135 | 159 | 155 | 156 | 195 | 150 | 159 | 169 | 164 | 1,796 |
Year | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 22 |
See also
References
- Five-man event