Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Two-man explained

Event:	Two-man
Games:	2018 Winter
Venue:	Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates:	18–19 February
Competitors:	60
Nations:	18
Win Value:	3:16.86
Gold:	Justin Kripps Alexander Kopacz
Goldnoc:	CAN
Gold2:	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis
Goldnoc2:	GER
Bronze:	Oskars Melbārdis Jānis Strenga
Bronzenoc:	LAT
Prev:	2014
Next:	2022

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.

Qualification

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics – 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
	6		Justin Kripps Alexander Kopacz	49.10	49.39	49.09	49.28	3:16.86
	7		Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	49.22	49.46	48.96 TR	49.22	3:16.86
	13		Oskars Melbārdis Jānis Strenga	49.08 TR	49.54	49.08	49.21	3:16.91	+0.05
	11		Nico Walther Christian Poser	49.12	49.27	49.32	49.35	3:17.06	+0.20
	10		Johannes Lochner Christopher Weber	49.24	49.34	49.09	49.47	3:17.14	+0.28
	30		Won Yun-jong Seo Young-woo	49.50	49.39	49.15	49.36	3:17.40	+0.54
	14		Nick Poloniato Jesse Lumsden	49.48	49.48	49.33	49.45	3:17.74	+0.88
	15		Benjamin Maier Markus Sammer	49.41	49.47	49.32	49.56	3:17.76	+0.90
	9		Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis	49.21	49.57	49.32	49.70	3:17.80	+0.94
10	8		Christopher Spring Lascelles Brown	49.38	49.58	49.56	49.72	3:18.24	+1.38
11	12		Rico Peter Simon Friedli	49.72	49.53	49.52	49.49	3:18.26	+1.40
12	2		Brad Hall Joel Fearon	49.37	49.50	49.67	49.80	3:18.34	+1.48
13	23		Romain Heinrich Dorian Hauterville	49.74	49.73	49.55	49.46	3:18.48	+1.62
14	19		Justin Olsen Evan Weinstock	49.66	49.55	49.53	49.80	3:18.54	+1.68
15	24		Markus Treichl Kilian Walch	49.67	49.67	49.56	49.66	3:18.56	+1.70
16	17		Clemens Bracher Michael Kuonen	49.73	49.90	49.64	49.56	3:18.83	+1.97
17	21		Dominik Dvořák Jakub Nosek	49.70	49.63	49.67	49.86	3:18.86	+2.00
18	26		Mihai Cristian Tentea	49.69	49.72	49.93	49.64	3:18.98	+2.12
19	25		Rudy Rinaldi Boris Vain	49.85	49.69	49.68	49.80	3:19.02	+2.16
20	18		Alexey Stulnev Vasiliy Kondratenko	49.77	49.99	49.74	49.87	3:19.37	+2.51
21	16		Nick Cunningham Hakeem Abdul-Saboor	49.96	50.11	49.62	rowspan=10	2:29.69	rowspan=10
22	3		Lucas Mata David Mari	49.88	50.04	49.87	2:29.79
23	29		Jan Vrba Jakub Havlín	49.93	50.07	49.86	2:29.86
24	22		Mateusz Luty Krzysztof Tylkowski	49.87	50.10	49.92	2:29.89
25	20		Codie Bascue Sam McGuffie	50.03	50.16	49.90	2:30.09
26	27		Li Chunjian Wang Sidong	50.13	50.21	50.15	2:30.49
27	1		Edson Bindilatti Edson Ricardo Martins	50.14	50.22	50.35	2:30.71
28	5		Maxim Andrianov Yury Selikhov (Run 1-2) Ruslan Samitov (Run 3)	50.27	50.58	49.98	2:30.83
29	28		Jin Jian Shi Hao	50.47	50.17	50.33	2:30.97
30	4		Dražen Silić Benedikt Nikpalj	50.76	50.91	50.99	2:32.66

Notes and References

1. Web site: Venues. www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. 26 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180217011059/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/venues. 17 February 2018. dead.
2. Web site: Winter Olympics: Canada and Germany share two-man bobsleigh gold . BBC Sport . 19 February 2018.
3. Web site: Bobsleigh: Canada, Germany in golden dead-heat. Reuters. 22 February 2018.
4. Web site: Canada’s Justin Kripps ties for gold with Germany in two-man bobsleigh. The Globe and Mail. 22 February 2018.
5. Web site: Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeonChang 2018 Bobsleigh. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 20 January 2018. 2017-06-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20170619222223/http://www.ibsf.org/images/documents/downloads/Quotas/2016_17/2016-05-17_-_PyeongChang_2018_Qualification_System_-_Bobsleigh_V2.pdf. dead.
6. Web site: Quota Allocation PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018 - 2-man Bobsleigh - IBSF 14 January 2018. 15 January 2018. www.ibsf.org. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 15 January 2018. 16 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180116125436/http://www.ibsf.org/images/documents/downloads/Quotas/2017_18/Quota_allocation_IBSF_RANKING_Bobsleigh_2_Man_14_01_2018.pdf. dead.
7. Web site: Final results . 2018-02-19 . 2018-02-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180219173948/http://ibsf.sportresult.com/ResultListBackUp/192800.pdf . dead .