2015/2016 IBSF World Cup - Two-Man Bobsled

From Lake Placid, USA

It’s been a tough go of it since winning bronze in Sochi for Steven Holcomb. The American has struggled through various injuries, but through it all has continued to push to get back to the top. In Lake Placid, he found that rhythm and took gold on home ice.

Holcomb came into the second run of the two-man bobsled in third, behind strong runs by Nico Walther and Yunjong Won, who were .11 and .06 ahead of Holcomb, respectively. All three had clean runs, but Holcomb’s run was flawless, giving the American his first gold medal of the 2015/2016 season. Walther and Won finished second and third, while Canadian Justin Kripps finished fourth, Ugis Zalims fifth and American Nick Cunningham sixth.

Codie Bascue finished 11th for the United States, Chris Spring 12th for Canada, while Lamin Deen was disqualified after coming across the finish line with only himself in the sled.

Results:

Pos	Names	Nation	Bib	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Holcomb / Valdes	USA	11	55.48	55.52	1:51.00
2	Walther / Poser	GER	1	55.37	55.74	1:51.11
3	Won / Seo	KOR	10	55.42	55.70	1:51.12
4	Kripps / Kopacz	CAN	5	55.59	55.71	1:51.30
5	Zalims / Dambis	LAT	4	55.59	55.82	1:51.41
6	Cunningham / Gilsleider	USA	8	55.60	55.83	1:51.43
7	Arndt / Bäcker	GER	3	55.63	55.80	1:51.43
8	Friedrich / Margis	GER	9	55.73	55.71	1:51.44
9	Peter / van der Zijde	SUI	7	55.71	55.75	1:51.46
10	Kibermanis / Jansons	LAT	2	55.79	55.69	1:51.48
11	Bascue / Abdul-Saboor	USA	17	55.66	55.83	1:51.49
12	Spring / Brown	CAN	14	55.70	55.88	1:51.58
13	Kasjanov / Pushkarev	RUS	6	55.77	55.86	1:51.63
14	Stulnev / Belugin	RUS	13	55.81	56.00	1:51.81
15	Kim / Oh	KOR	12	55.88	56.02	1:51.90
16	Zakharov / Mokrousov	RUS	15	56.04	56.12	1:52.16
17	Bertazzo / Costa	ITA	16	56.10	56.31	1:52.41
18	Deen / Baines	GBR	18	DSQ