2017 IBSF World Championships – Four-Man Bobsled Start List

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The largest four-man field of the season will take part in the 2017 World Championships, with 34 teams set to take part. As always, the World Championship format will be a four-heat race, with all teams taking the first three runs, and the top 20 taking the final run.

This year’s field has 33 men’s teams and one all-women team from Romania, piloted by Maria Constantin. Germany will field four teams, with Bennet Buchmüller getting a pass into the field as the current Junior World Champion.

Race times are as follows (all times ET):

Saturday (2/25):
Run 1: 7:30 AM | Run 2: 9:20 AM
Sunday (2/26):
Run 3: 7:30 AM | Run 4: 9:20 AM

Four-Man Start List:

Names Nation Bib IBSF Rank
Grigore / Peptea / Craciun / Radu ROU 1 49
de Bruin / den Ouden / Piek / Franjic NED 2 38
Poloniato / Sunderland / Plug / MacDougall CAN 3 22
Treichl / Glueck/ Walch / Esterhammer AUT 4 40
Heibl / Midtby / Bjugn / Heibl NOR 5 51
Lochner / Kagerhuber / Bluhm / Rasp GER 6 6
Peter / Baumann / Friedli / Kuonen SUI 7 2
Stulnev / Huzin / Belugin / Koshelev RUS 8 4
Maier / Laussegger / Sammer / Moldovan AUT 9 8
Walther / Kuske / Korona / Franke GER 10 7
Friedrich / Bauer / Grothkopp / Margis GER 11 5
Holcomb / Valdes / Reed / McGuffie USA 12 3
Kasjanov / Pushkarev / Kondratenko / Zaitsev RUS 13 1
Kibermanis / Jansons / Miknis / Zirups LAT 14 10
Andiranov / Lylov / Selikhov / Antukh RUS 15 9
Kripps / Kopaz / Lumsden / Brown CAN 16 11
Melbardis / Dreiskens / Vilkaste / Strenga LAT 17 12
Spring / Stones / Kirkpatrick / Wright CAN 18 13
Deen / Simons / Baines / Matthews GBR 19 14
Costerg / Castell / Pujar / Boutherin FRA 20 17
Buchmüller / Krenz / Scherer / Laurenz GER 21 20
Cunningham / Del Duca / Adams / Kinney USA 22 21
Vrba / Egydy / Suchy / Nosek CZE 23 23
Bracher / Knuser / van der Zijde / Dörig SUI 24 27
Olsen / Landis / Weinstock / Michener USA 25 29
Rinaldi / Vain / Demarthon / Borges Mendonaca MON 26 31
Dvorak / Sindelar / Stoklaska / Havlin CZE 27 37
Hall / Fearon / Tasker / Cackett GBR 28 43
Baumgartner / Caruso / Costa / Bilotti ITA 29 44
Bertazzo / Fontana / Ughi / Variola ITA 30 45
Radenovic / Novakovic / Stojic / Pankov SRB 31 46
Luty / Zakrzewski / Miedzik / Kossakowski POL 32 50
Silic / Nikpalj / Krajisnik / Zlatnar CRO 33 52
Constantin / Vild / Grecu / Halai ROU 34 55