2012/2013 FIBT World Cup - Round 1 - Two-Man Bobsled

From Lake Placid, USA

Steven Holcomb continued his dominating ways on Lake Placid’s ice, sliding to victory with teammate Steven Langton. The margin of victory was relatively sizable, but Cory Butner took silver, his best World Cup finish to date. Francisco Frederich finishes third, while Nick Cunningham made it three sleds in the Top 5 for Team USA with a 5th place finish.

The Canadian men didn’t fare as well as their female couterparts. Rush and Lumsden took 7th, while Spring and Ben finished 13th and Kripps and Carriere took 15th.

Results:

Pos	Names	Nation	Draw	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Holcomb/Langton	USA	1	55.56	56.16	1:51.75
2	Butner/Berkeley	USA	16	56.10	56.25	1:52.35
3	Friedrich/Gerhardi	GER	8	56.09	56.35	1:52.44
4	Machata/Poser	GER	10	56.17	56.32	1:52.49
5	Cunningham/Drbal	USA	11	56.06	56.44	1:52.50
6	Van Calker/Jansma	NED	4	56.17	56.35	1:52.52
7	Rush/Lumsden	CAN	2	56.17	56.41	1:52.58
8	MelbardisDreiskens	LAT	5	56.01	56.58	1:52.59
9	Zubkov/Trunenkov	RUS	6	56.18	56.52	1:52.70
10	Arndt/Huebenbecker	GER	3	56.21	56.49	1:52.70
11	de Bruin/Van Der Zijde	NED	15	56.22	56.50	1:52.72
12	Bertazzo/Costa	ITA	12	56.28	56.53	1:52.81
13	Spring/Ben	CAN	13	56.35	56.50	1:52.85
14	Peter/Friedli	SUI	21	56.32	56.64	1:52.96
15	Kripps/Carriere	CAN	17	56.52	56.63	1:53.15
16	Galliker/Morlu	SUI	25	56.59	56.69	1:53.28
17	Loacker/Adolf	AUT	20	56.71	56.77	1:53.48
18	Vrba/Stoklaska	CZE	19	56.71	56.81	1:53.52
19	Zakharov/Meleshkin	RUS	14	56.68	56.94	1:53.62
20	Costerg/Heinrich	FRA	23	56.64	57.26	1:53.90
21	Servelle/Lefort	MON	9	56.89
22	Won/Jun	KOR	24	56.89
23	Jackson/Baines	GBR	18	56.92
24	Neagu/Craciun	ROU	27	56.93
25	Jagnesak/Tesovic	SVK	22	57.45
26	Serise/Vandoorne	BEL	26	57.66
27	Kasjanov/Belugin	RUS	7	DSQ