2013/2014 FIBT World Cup - St. Moritz - Two-Man Bobsled

From St. Moritz, Switzerland

Beat Hefti takes gold on his home ice in St. Moritz. Hefti set the season’s push record on the way to his second consecutive gold medal. Russian Alexander Zubkov moves up to silver after a very quick second run, while Francesco Friedrich took bronze. Canadian Lyndon Rush had his best set of runs to take fourth, while American Steven Holcomb scored fifth for the USA. Holcomb continues to lead in the World Cup standings.

Another tough day for the Americans, with Nick Cunningham couldn’t crack the top ten, finishing in 11th. Cory Butner had a tough first run, but picked it up on the second trip down, picking up a few spots to finish 15th.

Canadian Chris Spring scored another top-six, building on a very consistent season leading to Sochi, while Justin Kripps finished 16th.

Results:

Pos	Names	Nation	Draw	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Hefti/Baumann	SUI	2	66.74	66.66	2:13.40
2	Zubkov/Voevoda	RUS	8	66.81	66.77	2:13.58
3	Friedrich/Baecker	GER	10	66.64	67.06	2:13.70
4	Rush/Brown	CAN	4	66.78	66.99	2:13.77
5	Holcomb/Fogt	USA	7	66.86	67.09	2:13.95
6	Spring/Lumsden	CAN	5	66.92	67.06	2:13.98
7	Arndt/Putze	GER	12	67.01	67.14	2:14.15
8	Kibermanis/Leiboms	LAT	18	67.03	67.13	2:14.16
9	Florschütz/Kuske	GER	3	67.08	67.10	2:14.18
10	Kasjanov/Belugin	RUS	13	66.90	67.28	2:14.18
11	Cunningham/Morlu	USA	6	67.01	67.22	2:14.23
12	Peter/Amrhein	SUI	17	67.24	67.05	2:14.29
13	Melbardis/Dreiskens	LAT	9	67.04	67.29	2:14.33
14	Bertazzo/Costa	ITA	15	67.30	67.42	2:14.72
15	Butner/Drbal	USA	1	67.46	67.39	2:14.85
16	Kripps/Barnett	CAN	11	67.22	67.66	2:14.88
17	Istrate/Craciun	ROU	19	67.45	67.49	2:14.94
18	Costerg/Heinnrich	FRA	14	67.66	67.55	2:15.21
19	Stulnev/Gnezdilov	RUS	21	67.79	67.73	2:15.52
20	van Calker/van Calker	NED	20	67.42	68.56	2:15.98
21	Jackson/Tasker	GBR	22	67.85
22	Vrba/Suchy	CZE	23	67.90
23	de Bruin/Wintersberger	NED	16	68.14