Oelsner Wins 3rd Straight EC Race

From Altenberg, GER

Dec. 7, 2019 – Richard Oelsner stayed perfect on his 2018/2019 season, winning 4-man European Cup gold in Altenberg.

The German pilot carried just a .02 second lead over teammate Hans Peter Hannighofer going into the second heat. On that run Oelsner was good enough to retain his lead, with a run that was second only to Bennet Buchmüller. Hannighoffer, on the other hand, had a seventh quickest run to drop him out of the medals into fourth.

Jonas Jannusch finished the race with a silver medal, .24 behind Oelsner, while Buchmüller finished third. Hannighoffer’s fourth place finish meant a sweep of the top four spots by Germany.

Oskars Melbardis finished fifth as the top non-German, while Lamin Deen finished sixth in the lone British sled in the field.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Oelsner / Bosse / Straß / Kunze GER 11 5.30 5.28 54.51 55.54 1:50.05
2 Jannusch / Lüthcke / Gessenhardt / Heber GER 5 5.35 5.34 54.60 55.69 1:50.29
3 Buchmüller / Kornhardt / Scherer / Hahn GER 17 5.28 5.27 54.82 55.50 1:50.32
4 Hannighofer / Bruckert / Schwenzfeier / Röder GER 1 5.21 5.19 54.53 55.88 1:50.41
5 Melbardis / Priekulis / Nemme / Pirogs LAT 9 5.32 5.33 54.81 55.81 1:50.62
6 Deen / Simons / Gilling / Butterworth GBR 15 5.35 5.36 54.97 55.76 1:50.73
7 Popov / Zakhrypain / Travkin / Kozlov RUS 16 5.23 5.28 55.08 55.77 1:50.85
8 Rohner / Fässler / Fearon / Giumma SUI 8 5.39 5.35 54.85 56.11 1:50.96
9 Baumgartner / Ughi / Variola / Atchori Essoh ITA 7 5.45 5.46 55.02 55.98 1:51.00
10 Follador / Camelin / Nikpalj / Moser SUI 10 5.45 5.47 55.39 56.16 1:51.55
11 de Bruin / Pals / Dmas / Veenker NED 13 5.60 5.55 55.80 56.48 1:52.36
12 Friedli / Sleischmann / Jones / Lussambo SUI 12 5.65 5.61 55.88 56.72 1:52.60
13 Geiger / Kobinger / Kompain / Mandlbauer AUT 14 5.52 5.55 56.12 57.09 1:53.21
DNS Gaitiukevich / Kazantsev / Zharovtsev / Gryanzov RUS DNS
DSQ Bredikhin / Korotkov / Andriyanov / Baklanov RUS 2 5.29 5.33 55.15 DSQ
DSQ Shinohara / Kobayashi / Nishida  JPN 3 5.44 59.73 DSQ