2015/2016 IBSF World Cup – Four-Man Bobsled – Race 6

From Park City, USA

Park City had two four-man events in its World Cup weekend, and in both of them weather played a major factor in the outcome. Much like in the first four-man race, the second race saw wildly erratic times throughout the field.

Overcoming the conditions was Nico Walther, who took gold for Germany, making it a German sweep of the four-man events. The winner of the first race, Max Arndt, took silver, while Rico Peter took bronze.

Francesco Friedrich finished fourth, one spot out of a German sweep, while Alexander Kasjanov and Oskars Kibermanis finished fifth and sixth.

Steven Holcomb led the way in another screwy weather race for the United States in a tie for seventh with Latvian Ugis Zalims. Teammates Nick Cunningham and Codie Bascue finished 13th and 19th, respectively.

Justin Kripps couldn’t follow up his first race in Park City with another top five run, finishing tenth. Chris Spring finished 17th and Kaillie Humphries 21st to round out the Canadian effort.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Walther / Hübenbecker / Poser / Franke GER 4 48.08 48.30 1:36.38
2 Arndt / Korona / Putze / Heber GER 8 48.10 48.30 1:36.40
3 Peter / van der Zijde / Amrhein / Badraun GER 2 48.23 48.23 1:36.46
4 Friedrich / Bauer / Bermbach / Margis GER 5 48.32 48.20 1:36.52
5 Kasjanov / Pushkarev / Huzin / Zaytsev RUS 1 48.39 48.21 1:36.60
6 Kibermanis / Jansons / Lusis / Strenga LAT 13 48.28 48.34 1:36.62
7 Zalims / Miknis / Vilkaste / Dambis LAT 17 48.30 48.34 1:36.64
7 Holcomb / Del Duca / Valdes / McGuffie USA 15 48.36 48.28 1:36.64
9 Stulnev / Mokrousov / Belugin / Sadeev RUS 7 48.35 48.34 1:36.69
10 Kripps / Kopacz / Plug / Coakwell CAN 5 48.39 48.32 1:46.71
11 Won / Kim / Kim / Oh KOR 19 48.32 48.54 1:36.86
12 Bertazzo / Fontana / Ughi / Costa ITA 3 48.41 48.47 1:36.88
13 Cunningham / Wickline / Reed / Michener USA 9 48.63 48.55 1:37.18
14 Deen / Baines / Fearon / Matthews GBR 10 48.78 48.43 1:37.21
15 Zakharov / Lylov / Selikhov / Moiseev RUS 11 48.61 48.75 1:37.36
16 Meyerhans / Dobler / Ekimov / Baumann SUI 21 48.46 48.91 1:37.37
17 Spring / Kirkpatrick / Brown / Giguere CAN 12 48.69 48.75 1:37.44
18 de Bruin / Mensink / Brink / Veenker NED 20 48.63 48.91 1:37.54
19 Bascue / Cremin / Gilsleider / Abdul-Saboor USA 16 48.63 48.93 1:37.56
20 Jackson / Anderson / Watson / Simpson GBR 14 48.72 49.07 1:37.79
21 Humphries / Appiah / Thibault / Lotholz CAN 18 49.79