The two-man bobsleigh competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 18 and 19 February at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1] Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz of Canada and Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany shared gold after the two teams recorded exactly the same time after four runs.[2][3][4] Oskars Melbārdis and Jānis Strenga of Latvia won the bronze medal.
| Two-man at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 18–19 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 60 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:16.86 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Qualification
editThe 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
editThe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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6 |  Canada
|
Justin Kripps Alexander Kopacz |
49.10 | 49.39 | 49.09 | 49.28 | 3:16.86 | – |
| |
7 |  Germany
|
Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis |
49.22 | 49.46 | 48.96 TR | 49.22 | 3:16.86 | – |
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13 |  Latvia
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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
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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
|
Mihai Cristian Tentea 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
|
Jan Vrba Jakub Havlín |
49.93 | 50.07 | 49.86 | 2:29.86 | ||
| 24 | 22 |  Poland
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Mateusz Luty Krzysztof Tylkowski |
49.87 | 50.10 | 49.92 | 2:29.89 | ||
| 25 | 20 | United States
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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
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Edson Bindilatti Edson Ricardo Martins |
50.14 | 50.22 | 50.35 | 2:30.71 | ||
| 28 | 5 | Olympic Athletes from Russia
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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
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Dražen Silić Benedikt Nikpalj |
50.76 | 50.91 | 50.99 | 2:32.66 |
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "Winter Olympics: Canada and Germany share two-man bobsleigh gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Bobsleigh: Canada, Germany in golden dead-heat". Reuters. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Canada's Justin Kripps ties for gold with Germany in two-man bobsleigh". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeonChang 2018 Bobsleigh" (PDF). International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-19. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2018-02-19.