2016/2017 IBSF European Cup - Two-Man Bobsled

From Altenberg, GER

Results from the sixth IBSF European Cup two-man bobsled race of the 2016/2017 season, held December 17, 2016.

Oskars Kibermanis won his third race of the 2016/2017 European Cup season. The Latvian was the second quickest in the first run, just behind of Bruce Tasker of Great Britain. Kibermanis had the better second run, and took gold in the process.

Tasker finished with a silver medal, well ahead of Kibermanis’ teammate Ugis Zalims, who took bronze.

Previous race winner Richard Oelsner finished fourth, tying with Christoph Hafer, while Ivan Linuchev finished sixth.

Results:

Pos	Names	Nation	Start 1	Start 2	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Kibermanis / Dreiskens	LAT	5.23	5.24	55.46	55.72	1:51.18
2	Tasker / Olubi	GBR	5.17	5.13	55.45	55.96	1:51.41
3	Zalims / Zirups	LAT	5.29	5.27	55.80	56.05	1:51.85
4	Oelsner / Knötzsch	GER	5.35	5.36	55.88	56.26	1:52.14
4	Hafer / Krenz	GER	5.42	5.41	55.89	56.25	1:52.14
6	Linuchev / Samitov	RUS	5.36	5.34	56.27	55.96	1:52.23
7	Bracher / Kuonen	SUI	5.35	5.33	55.95	56.39	1:52.34
8	Hefti / Ferrari	SUI	5.38	5.36	56.11	56.27	1:52.38
9	Buchmüller / Scherer	GER	5.34	5.36	56.36	56.21	1:52.57
10	Heinrich/ Lefebvre	FRA	5.52	5.50	56.34	56.36	1:52.70
11	Holinger / Williamson	SUI	5.34	5.38	56.28	56.51	1:52.79
12	Dvorak/ Suchy	CZE	5.31	5.32	56.35	56.52	1:52.87
13	Nolte / Weber	GER	5.36	5.35	56.41	56.48	1:52.89
14	Vrba / Kopriva	CZE	5.50	5.45	56.21	56.75	1:52.96
14	Biddulph / Gleeson	GBR	5.40	5.43	56.27	56.69	1:52.96
16	Popov / Mordasov	RUS	5.42	5.42	56.31	56.76	1:53.07
17	Bertazzo / Ughi	ITA	5.54	5.59	56.60	56.97	1:53.57
18	Matousek / Dobes	CZE	5.48	5.47	56.88	57.05	1:53.93
19	Berzins / Springis	LAT	5.43	5.43	57.04	57.10	1:54.14
20	Baumgartner / Variola	ITA	5.53	5.52	57.12	57.21	1:54.33
21	Treichl / Bassey	AUT	5.48		57.33
22	Bredikhin / Korotkov	RUS	5.63		57.34
22	Fomin / Piskunov	RUS	5.39		57.34
24	Meyer / Kranz	LIE	6.26		59.60
DNS	Fontana / Costa	ITA			DNS