2023–24 Bobsleigh World Cup Explained

2023–24 Bobsleigh World Cup
Competition1:	Combined
Competition1men:	Francesco Friedrich
Competition1ladies:	Laura Nolte
Competition2:	Monobob
Competition2men:	—
Competition2ladies:	Lisa Buckwitz
Competition3:	Two
Competition3men:	Francesco Friedrich
Competition3ladies:	Laura Nolte
Competition4:	Four
Competition4men:	Francesco Friedrich
Competition4ladies:	—
Menseason:	40th
Ladiesseason:	31st
Menlocations:	8
Ladieslocations:	7
Previous:	2022–23
Next:	2024–25

The 2023–24 Bobsleigh World Cup (official: BMW IBSF Bobsleigh World Cup) was a multi-race series over a season of bobsleigh, organised by International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF).^[1]

The season started on 17 November 2023 in Yanqing, China and ended on 23 March 2024 in Lake Placid, United States.^[2]

The highlight of the season was the World Championships in Winterberg, Germany, whose results were not included in the World Cup standings.

Map of world cup hosts

All 8 locations hosting world cup events in this season (including Winterberg – venue of the World Championships).

Schedule

	Location	Date	Two-Man	Four-Man	Monobob	Two-Woman	Details
1	Yanqing	17–19 November 2023	●	●●
2	La Plagne	9–10 December 2023	●	●	●	●
3		16–17 December 2023	●	●	●●	●	also European Championships for four-man
4	St. Moritz	13–14 January 2024	●	●	●	●
5	Lillehammer	27–28 January 2024	●	●	●	●
6	Sigulda	2–4 February 2024	●		●	●●	also European Championships for Monobob, two-woman and two-man (extra run)
7	Altenberg	17–18 February 2024	●	●	●	●
WCH	Winterberg	24 February–3 March 2024	●	●	●	●	World Championships (not included in the World Cup)
8	Lake Placid	22–23 March 2024	●	●	●	●

Calendar & Standings

Two-man

	Date	Place	Winner	Time	Second	Time	Third	Time
1	2023	Yanqing	Johannes Lochner Georg Fleischhauer	1:58.64 (59.18 / 59.46)	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller	1:59.26 (59.50 / 59.76)	Michael Vogt Sandro Michel	1:59.54 (59.63 / 59.91)	^[3]
2	9 December 2023	La Plagne	Michael Vogt Sandro Michel	1:58.51 (59.26 / 59.25)	Johannes Lochner Georg Fleischhauer	1:58.58 (59.23 / 59.35)	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	1:58.94 (59.49 / 59.45)	^[4]
3	16 December 2023	Innsbruck-Igls	Johannes Lochner Georg Fleischhauer	1:41.94 (50.88 / 51.06)	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller	1:42.02 (51.02 / 51.00)	Adam Ammour Issam Ammour	1:42.68 (51.31 / 51.37)	^[5]
4	13 January 2024	St. Moritz	Johannes Lochner Georg Fleischhauer	2:10.74 (1:05.53 / 1:05.21)	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller	2:10.99 (1:05.65 / 1:05.34)	Michael Vogt Sandro Michel	2:11.29 (1:05.86 / 1:05.43)	^[6]
5	27 January 2024	Lillehammer	Johannes Lochner Georg Fleischhauer	1:40.63 (50.34 / 50.29)	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller	1:41.01 (50.62 / 50.39)	Adam Ammour Benedikt Hertel	1:41.08 (50.58 / 50.50)	^[7]
6	3 February 2024	Sigulda	Adam Ammour Benedikt Hertel	1:39.33 (49.72 / 49.61)	Michael Vogt Sandro Michel	1:39.45 (49.80 / 49.65)	Francesco Friedrich Matthias Sommer	1:39.48 (49.87 / 49.61)	^[8]
7	17 February 2024	Altenberg	Adam Ammour Costa Laurenz	1:51.41 (55.71 / 55.70)	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	1:51.59 (55.65 / 55.94)	Kim Jin-su Kim Hyeong-geun	1:52.02 (55.93 / 56.09)	^[9]
8	22 March 2024	Lake Placid	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller	1:49.70 (54.69 / 55.01)	Johannes Lochner Joshua Tasche	1:49.95 (54.83 / 55.12)	Adam Ammour Benedikt Hertel	1:50.60 (55.19 / 55.41)	^[10]

Overall leaders

No.	Holder	Date gained	Place	Date forfeited	Place	Number of competitions
1.	Johannes Lochner	17 November 2023	Yanqing	17 February 2024	Altenberg	6
2.	Francesco Friedrich	17 February 2024	Altenberg			2

Rank^[11]	Racer	Points	YAN	LAP	IGL	STM	LIL	SIG	ALT	LAK
1	Francesco Friedrich	1675	2	3	2	2	2	3	2	1
2	Johannes Lochner	1512	1	2	1	1	1	4	–	2
3	Adam Ammour	1410	–	5	3	6	3	1	1	3
4	Michael Vogt	1403	3	1	5	3	4	2	–	4
5	Emīls Cipulis	1304	5	11	6	5	8	8	5	8
6	Simon Friedli	1296	6	8	10	4	7	5	10	12
7	Patrick Baumgartner	1280	4	7	9	8	10	6	9	11
8	Frank Del Duca	1192	–	4	4	13	5	8	8	5
9	Markus Treichl	1184	7	10	7	14	12	10	7	9
10	Cédric Follador	1152	9	6	12	7	17	11	4	14

Four-man

	Date	Place	Winner	Time	Second	Time	Third	Time
1	18 November 2023	Yanqing	Johannes Lochner Georg Fleischhauer Erec Bruckert Florian Bauer	1:57.04 (58.60 / 58.44)	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Alexander Schüller Candy Bauer	1:57.31 (58.63 / 58.68)	Sun Kaizhi Ding Song Ye Jielong Zhen Heng	1:57.44 (58.58 / 58.86)	^[12]
2	19 November 2023		Johannes Lochner Georg Fleischhauer Joshua Tasche Florian Bauer	1:56.61 (58.22 / 58.39)	Patrick Baumgartner Eric Fantazzini Robert Mircea Lorenzo Bilotti	1:56.92 (58.35 / 58.57)	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Felix Straub Candy Bauer	1:56.93 (58.25 / 58.68)	^[13]
3	10 December 2023	La Plagne	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Alexander Schüller Felix Straub	1:56.14 (58.12 / 58.02)	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Erec Bruckert Georg Fleischhauer	1:56.58 (58.42 / 58.16)	Adam Ammour Benedikt Hertel Nick Stadelmann Rupert Schenk	1:56.69 (58.38 / 58.31)	^[14]
4	17 December 2023	Innsbruck-Igls	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Alexander Schüller Felix Straub	1:40.89 (50.43 / 50.46)	Johannes Lochner Erec Bruckert Joshua Tasche Georg Fleischhauer	1:41.03 (50.52 / 50.51)	Emīls Cipulis Dāvis Spriņģis Matīss Miknis Krists Lindenblats	1:41.35 (50.60 / 50.75)	^[15]
5	14 January 2024	St. Moritz	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Erec Bruckert Georg Fleischhauer	2:08.89 (1:04.61 / 1:04.28)	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Candy Bauer Alexander Schüller	2:08.99 (1:04.65 / 1:04.34)	Emīls Cipulis Dāvis Spriņģis Lauris Kaufmanis Krists Lindenblats	2:09.29 (1:04.74 / 1:04.55)	^[16]
6	28 January 2024	Lillehammer	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Alexander Schüller Felix Straub	1:39.50 (49.74 / 49.76)	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Erec Bruckert Georg Fleischhauer	1:39.72 (49.84 / 49.88)	Brad Hall Leon Greenwood Taylor Lawrence Greg Cackett	1:40.15 (50.04 / 50.11)	^[17]
7	18 February 2024	Altenberg	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Alexander Schüller Felix Straub Emīls Cipulis Dāvis Spriņģis Matīss Miknis Krists Lindenblats	1:48.55 (54.20 / 54.35) 1:48.55 (54.24 / 54.31)	–	Simon Friedli Pascal Moser Luca Rolli Dominik Schläpfer	1:49.08 (54.42 / 54.66)	^[18]
8	23 March 2024	Lake Placid	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Matthias Sommer Felix Straub	54.75	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Joshua Tasche Georg Fleischhauer	54.92	Adam Ammour Nick Stadelmann Erik Leypold Rupert Schenk	55.03	^[19]

Overall leaders

No.	Holder	Date gained	Place	Date forfeited	Place	Number of competitions
1.	Johannes Lochner	18 November 2023	Yanqing	18 February 2024	Altenberg	6
2.	Francesco Friedrich	18 February 2024	Altenberg			2

Rank^[20]	Racer	Points	YAN1	YAN2	LAP	IGL	STM	LIL	ALT	LAK
1	Francesco Friedrich	1745	2	3	1	1	2	1	1	1
2	Emīls Cipulis	1529	4	4	5	3	3	5	1	9
3	Johannes Lochner	1515	1	1	2	2	1	2	–	2
4		1392	10	11	7	5	5	4	3	5
5	Patrick Baumgartner	1290	6	2	9	11	12	5	6	12
6	Cédric Follador	1288	7	10	6	6	7	9	7	11
7	Markus Treichl	1256	9	7	11	9	8	14	5	4
8	Jēkabs Kalenda	1112	11	9	10	12	11	11	8	13
9	Adam Ammour	1096	–	–	3	4	9	8	4	3
10	Kaizhi Sun	1056	3	6	13	6	13	10	13	–

Men's Combined Standings

Rank	after all 16 events^[21]	Points
1		3420
2		3027
3		2873
4		2688
5		2570
6		2506
7		2440
8		2440
9		2435
10		1976

Monobob

	Date	Place	Winner	Time	Second	Time	Third	Time
1	9 December 2023	La Plagne	Kaysha Love	2:07.92 (1:04.13 / 1:03.79)	Melanie Hasler	2:08.13 (1:04.18 / 1:03.95)	Andreea Grecu	2:08.21 (1:04.17 / 1:04.04)	^[22]
2	15 December 2023	Innsbruck-Igls	Lisa Buckwitz	1:51.17 (55.83 / 55.34)	Breeana Walker	1:51.42 (55.99 / 55.43)	Laura Nolte	1:51.47 (55.98 / 55.49)	^[23]
3	16 December 2023		Lisa Buckwitz	1:49.42 (54.67 / 54.75)	Kaysha Love	1:49.53 (54.85 / 54.68)	Breeana Walker	1:49.55 (54.77 / 54.78)	^[24]
4	13 January 2024	St. Moritz	Lisa Buckwitz	2:22.78 (1:11.89 / 1:10.89)	Laura Nolte	2:22.91 (1:11.77 / 1:11.14)	Breeana Walker	2:22.93 (1:11.79 / 1:11.14)	^[25]
5	27 January 2024	Lillehammer	Kaysha Love	1:48.52 (54.12 / 54.40)	Breeana Walker	1:48.94 (54.41 / 54.53)	Lisa Buckwitz	1:48.95 (54.44 / 54.51)	^[26]
6	3 February 2024	Sigulda	Lisa Buckwitz	1:47.46 (53.57 / 53.89)	Andreea Grecu	1:47.73 (53.46 / 54.27)	Laura Nolte Elana Meyers Taylor	1:47.87 (53.59 / 54.28) 1:47.87 (53.71 / 54.16)	^[27]
7	17 February 2024	Altenberg	Laura Nolte	2:01.29 (1:00.71 / 1:00.58)	Elana Meyers Taylor	2:01.52 (1:00.45 / 1:01.07)	Lisa Buckwitz	2:01.55 (1:00.79 / 1:00.76)	^[28]
8	22 March 2024	Lake Placid	Breeana Walker	1:58.67 (59.22 / 59.45)	Elana Meyers Taylor	1:58.91 (59.25 / 59.66)	Cynthia Appiah	1:59.13 (59.26 / 59.87)	^[29]

Overall leaders

No.	Holder	Date gained	Place	Date forfeited	Place	Number of competitions
1.	Kaysha Love	9 December 2023	La Plagne	13 January 2024	St. Moritz	3
2.	Lisa Buckwitz	13 January 2024	St. Moritz			5

Rank^[30]	Racer	Points	LAP	IGL1	IGL2	STM	LIL	SIG	ALT	LAK
1	Lisa Buckwitz	1644	7	1	1	1	3	1	3	6
2	Breeana Walker	1549	5	2	3	3	2	9	7	1
3	Laura Nolte	1547	5	3	8	2	6	3	1	4
4	Kaysha Love	1516	1	4	2	9	1	5	10	5
5	Elana Meyers Taylor	1508	4	5	6	4	10	3	2	2
6	Andreea Grecu	1466	3	6	7	7	4	2	4	8
7	Melanie Hasler	1362	2	7	4	5	9	7	13	7
8	Cynthia Appiah	1200	9	8	5	11	5	DSQ	5	3
9	Qing Ying	1040	11	13	10	8	7	8	9	–
10	Bianca Ribi	1016	10	10	11	15	12	13	14	12

Two-woman

	Date	Place	Winner	Time	Second	Time	Third	Time
1	10 December 2023	La Plagne	Laura Nolte Neele Schuten	2:02.24 (1:01.29 / 1:00.95)	Kim Kalicki Leonie Fiebig	2:02.36 (1:01.34 / 1:01.02)	Elana Meyers Taylor Emily Renna	2:02.46 (1:01.47 / 1:00.99)	^[31]
2	17 December 2023	Innsbruck-Igls	Lisa Buckwitz Vanessa Mark	1:45.20 (52.60 / 52.60)	Kim Kalicki Leonie Fiebig	1:45.29 (52.68 / 52.61)	Laura Nolte Neele Schuten	1:45.64 (52.91 / 52.73)	^[32]
3	14 January 2024	St. Moritz	Laura Nolte Neele Schuten	2:16.59 (1:08.59 / 1:08.00)	Lisa Buckwitz Laurynn Siebert	2:16.67 (1:08.53 / 1:08.14)	Melanie Hasler Mara Morell	2:16.97 (1:08.80 / 1:08.17)	^[33]
4	28 January 2024	Lillehammer	Kim Kalicki Leonie Fiebig	1:43.62 (51.68 / 51.94)	Laura Nolte Neele Schuten	1:43.81 (51.83 / 51.98)	Kaysha Love Azaria Hill	1:43.85 (51.72 / 52.13)	^[34]
5	2 February 2024	Sigulda	Kim Kalicki Leonie Fiebig	1:41.53 (50.87 / 50.66)	Laura Nolte Claudia Schüßler	1:41.57 (50.75 / 50.82)	Lisa Buckwitz Vanessa Mark	1:41.65 (50.94 / 50.71)	^[35]
6	4 February 2024		Laura Nolte Neele Schuten	1:41.53 (50.77 / 50.76)	Kim Kalicki Anabel Galander	1:41.82 (50.93 / 50.89)	Melanie Hasler Mara Morell	1:42.06 (51.11 / 50.95)	^[36]
7	18 February 2024	Altenberg	Laura Nolte Deborah Levi	1:52.53 (56.08 / 56.45)	Kim Kalicki Anabel Galander	1:53.17 (56.51 / 56.66)	Andreea Grecu Teodora Andreea Vlad	1:54.16 (57.12 / 57.04)	^[37]
8	23 March 2024	Lake Placid	Kim Kalicki Leonie Fiebig	1:53.39 (56.51 / 56.88)	Adele Nicoll Kya Placide	1:54.20 (56.98 / 57.22)	Laura Nolte Claudia Schüßler	1:54.24 (57.00 / 57.24)	^[38]

Overall leaders

Rank^[39]	Racer	Points	LAP	IGL	STM	LIL	SIG1	SIG2	ALT	LAK
1	Laura Nolte	1720	1	3	1	2	2	1	1	3
2	Kim Kalicki	1683	2	2	7	1	1	2	2	1
3	Lisa Buckwitz	1539	6	1	2	4	3	4	9	4
4	Melanie Hasler	1488	5	5	3	7	4	3	6	5
5	Elana Meyers Taylor	1240	3	6	8	6	7	5	DNF	6
6	Breeana Walker	1192	7	4	5	5	5	13	–	8
7	Andreea Grecu	1184	9	11	12	13	11	6	3	11
8	Cynthia Appiah	1120	13	12	15	9	7	10	8	10
9	Katrin Beierl	1104	–	14	9	8	6	7	5	9
10	Qing Ying	1072	11	10	9	10	10	8	4	–

Women's Combined Standings

Rank	after all 16 events^[40]	Points
1		3267
2		3183
3		2850
4		2748
5		2741
6		2650
7		2412
8		2320
9		2112
10		1987

Podium table by nation

Table showing the World Cup podium places (gold–1st place, silver–2nd place, bronze–3rd place) by the countries represented by the athletes.

Points distribution

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2-Man, 4-Man Monobob, 2-Woman	225	210	200	192	184	176	168	160	152	144	136	128	120	112	104	96	88	80	74	68

Notes and References

1. Web site: IBSF. www.ibsf.org.
2. Web site: Calendar. ibsf.org. IBSF.
3. Web site: Two-man: Yanqing (CHN). IBSF. 17 November 2023.
4. Web site: Two-man: La Plagne (FRA). IBSF. 9 December 2023.
5. Web site: Two-man: Innsbruck (AUT). IBSF. 16 December 2023.
6. Web site: Two-man: St. Moritz (SUI). IBSF. 16 January 2024.
7. Web site: Two-man: Lillehammer (NOR). IBSF. 30 January 2024.
8. Web site: Two-man: Sigulda (LAT). IBSF. 4 February 2024.
9. Web site: Two-man: Altenberg (GER). IBSF. 18 February 2024.
10. Web site: Two-man: Lake Placid (USA). IBSF. 26 March 2024.
11. Web site: IBSF World Cup standings - Two-man bobsleigh. IBSF Results. IBSF.
12. Web site: Four-man: Yanqing 1 (CHN). IBSF. 18 November 2023.
13. Web site: Four-man: Yanqing 2 (CHN). IBSF. 19 November 2023.
14. Web site: Four-man: La Plagne (FRA). IBSF. 13 December 2023.
15. Web site: Four-man: Innsbruck (AUT). IBSF. 17 December 2023.
16. Web site: Four-man: St. Moritz (SUI). IBSF. 16 January 2024.
17. Web site: Four-man: Lillehammer (NOR). IBSF. 29 January 2024.
18. Web site: Four-man: Altenberg (GER). IBSF. 18 February 2024.
19. Web site: Four-man: Lake Placid (USA). IBSF. 26 March 2024.
20. Web site: IBSF World Cup standings - Four-man bobsleigh. IBSF Results. IBSF.
21. Web site: IBSF World Cup standings - Bobsleigh Combined Men. IBSF Results. IBSF.
22. Web site: Monobob: La Plagne (FRA). IBSF. 9 December 2023.
23. Web site: Monobob: Innsbruck 1 (AUT). IBSF . 15 December 2023.
24. Web site: Monobob: Innsbruck 2 (AUT). IBSF . 16 December 2023.
25. Web site: Monobob St Moritz (SUI). IBSF . 16 January 2024.
26. Web site: Monobob Lillehammer (NOR). IBSF . 31 January 2024.
27. Web site: Monobob Sigulda (LAT). IBSF . 6 February 2024.
28. Web site: Monobob Altenberg (GER). IBSF . 18 February 2024.
29. Web site: Monobob Lake Placid (USA). IBSF . 22 March 2024.
30. Web site: IBSF World Cup standings - Monobob. IBSF Results. IBSF.
31. Web site: Two-woman La Plagne (FRA). IBSF. 9 December 2023.
32. Web site: Two-woman Innsbruck (AUT). IBSF . 19 December 2023.
33. Web site: Two-woman St Moritz (SUI). IBSF . 16 January 2024.
34. Web site: Two-woman Lillehammer (NOR). IBSF . 31 January 2024.
35. Web site: Two-woman Sigulda (LAT) #1. IBSF . 4 February 2024.
36. Web site: Two-woman Sigulda (LAT) #2. IBSF . 4 February 2024.
37. Web site: Two-woman Altenberg (GER). IBSF . 18 February 2024.
38. Web site: Two-woman Lake Placid (USA). IBSF . 23 March 2024.
39. Web site: IBSF World Cup standings - Two-woman bobsleigh. IBSF.
40. Web site: IBSF World Cup standings - Bobsleigh Combined Women. IBSF Results. IBSF.