Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Two-man

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Two-man
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue
Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates18–19 February
Competitors60 from 18 nations
Winning time3:16.86
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Justin Kripps
Alexander Kopacz
 Canada
1st place, gold medalist(s) Francesco Friedrich
Thorsten Margis
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Oskars Melbārdis
Jānis Strenga
 Latvia
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The two-man

exactly the same time after four runs.[2][3][4] Oskars Melbārdis and Jānis Strenga
of Latvia won the bronze medal.

Qualification

The top three countries in the 2017–18 Bobsleigh season (including the World Cup, Europe races and Americas Cup) were awarded the maximum three sleds. The next six countries were awarded two sleds each. The remaining nine sleds were awarded to nine different countries, with South Korea being awarded a slot as host nation.[5][6]

Results

The first two runs were held on 18 February and the last two runs were held on 19 February.[7]

Rank Bib Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) 6  Canada Justin Kripps
Alexander Kopacz
49.10 49.39 49.09 49.28 3:16.86
1st place, gold medalist(s) 7  Germany Francesco Friedrich
Thorsten Margis
49.22 49.46 48.96 TR 49.22 3:16.86
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 13  Latvia Oskars Melbārdis
Jānis Strenga
49.08 TR 49.54 49.08 49.21 3:16.91 +0.05
4 11  Germany Nico Walther
Christian Poser
49.12 49.27 49.32 49.35 3:17.06 +0.20
5 10  Germany Johannes Lochner
Christopher Weber
49.24 49.34 49.09 49.47 3:17.14 +0.28
6 30  South Korea Won Yun-jong
Seo Young-woo
49.50 49.39 49.15 49.36 3:17.40 +0.54
7 14  Canada Nick Poloniato
Jesse Lumsden
49.48 49.48 49.33 49.45 3:17.74 +0.88
8 15  Austria Benjamin Maier
Markus Sammer
49.41 49.47 49.32 49.56 3:17.76 +0.90
9 9  Latvia Oskars Ķibermanis
Matīss Miknis
49.21 49.57 49.32 49.70 3:17.80 +0.94
10 8  Canada Christopher Spring
Lascelles Brown
49.38 49.58 49.56 49.72 3:18.24 +1.38
11 12  Switzerland Rico Peter
Simon Friedli
49.72 49.53 49.52 49.49 3:18.26 +1.40
12 2  Great Britain Brad Hall
Joel Fearon
49.37 49.50 49.67 49.80 3:18.34 +1.48
13 23  France Romain Heinrich
Dorian Hauterville
49.74 49.73 49.55 49.46 3:18.48 +1.62
14 19  United States Justin Olsen
Evan Weinstock
49.66 49.55 49.53 49.80 3:18.54 +1.68
15 24  Austria Markus Treichl
Kilian Walch
49.67 49.67 49.56 49.66 3:18.56 +1.70
16 17  Switzerland Clemens Bracher
Michael Kuonen
49.73 49.90 49.64 49.56 3:18.83 +1.97
17 21  Czech Republic Dominik Dvořák
Jakub Nosek
49.70 49.63 49.67 49.86 3:18.86 +2.00
18 26  Romania
Nicolae Ciprian Daroczi
49.69 49.72 49.93 49.64 3:18.98 +2.12
19 25  Monaco Rudy Rinaldi
Boris Vain
49.85 49.69 49.68 49.80 3:19.02 +2.16
20 18  Olympic Athletes from Russia
Alexey Stulnev
Vasiliy Kondratenko
49.77 49.99 49.74 49.87 3:19.37 +2.51
21 16  United States Nick Cunningham
Hakeem Abdul-Saboor
49.96 50.11 49.62 2:29.69
22 3  Australia Lucas Mata
David Mari
49.88 50.04 49.87 2:29.79
23 29  Czech Republic
Jakub Havlín
49.93 50.07 49.86 2:29.86
24 22  Poland Mateusz Luty
Krzysztof Tylkowski
49.87 50.10 49.92 2:29.89
25 20  United States Codie Bascue
Sam McGuffie
50.03 50.16 49.90 2:30.09
26 27  China Li Chunjian
Wang Sidong
50.13 50.21 50.15 2:30.49
27 1  Brazil
Edson Ricardo Martins
50.14 50.22 50.35 2:30.71
28 5  Olympic Athletes from Russia
Maxim Andrianov
Yury Selikhov (Run 1-2)
Ruslan Samitov
(Run 3)
50.27 50.58 49.98 2:30.83
29 28  China Jin Jian
Shi Hao
50.47 50.17 50.33 2:30.97
30 4  Croatia Dražen Silić
Benedikt Nikpalj
50.76 50.91 50.99 2:32.66

References

  1. ^ "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Winter Olympics: Canada and Germany share two-man bobsleigh gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Bobsleigh: Canada, Germany in golden dead-heat". Reuters. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Canada's Justin Kripps ties for gold with Germany in two-man bobsleigh". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  5. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF). Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2017-06-19. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Quota Allocation PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018 - 2-man Bobsleigh - IBSF 14 January 2018" (PDF). www.ibsf.org. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 15 January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  7. ^ Final results