Hafers Wins EC Gold Again in Winterberg

From Winterberg, GER

(Jan. 6, 2018) – Christoph Hafer once again won 4-man gold in Winterberg, cruising to a .76 victory over Patrick Baumgartner.

Hafer led teammate Dennis Pihale going into the second heat. Pihale struggled and fell down the time sheet to fifth, leaving the door open for Baumgartner to take silver behind Hafer.

Richard Oelsner finished third, ahead of teammates Jonas Jannusch and Pihale. Russian Dmitriy Popov finished sixth.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Hafer / Golling / Sommer / Schneider GER 5.29 5.27 54.94 54.85 1:49.79
2 Baumgartner / Fontana / Verginer / Atchori Essoh ITA 5.34 5.32 55.37 55.18 1:50.55
3 Oelsner / Ammour / Hensel / Laurenz GER 5.31 5.32 55.40 55.22 1:50.62
4 Jannusch / Hertel / Ebert / Röder GER 5.32 5.32 55.50 55.14 1:50.64
5 Pihale / Bosse / Scherer / Frytz GER 5.29 5.47 55.29 55.54 1:50.83
6 Popov / Bankov / Andriyanov / Kazantsev RUS 5.34 5.34 55.55 55.43 1:50.98
7 Suk / Hwang / Kim / Bae KOR 5.38 5.43 55.68 55.59 1:51.27
8 Gaitiukevich / Zakhryapin / Tarasov / Kozlov RUS 5.33 5.31 55.64 55.72 1:51.36
9 Tentea / Coman / Dobre / Bugheanu ROU 5.37 5.45 55.73 55.76 1:51.49
10 Follador / Camelin / Dominguez / Crotta SUI 5.51 5.48 55.96 56.27 1:52.23
11 Shinohara / Kobayashi / Murakami / Homma JPN 5.46 5.48 56.82 56.51 1:53.33