Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Two-man

The two-man bobsleigh competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 18 and 19 February at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[1] Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz of Canada and Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany shared gold after the two teams recorded exactly the same time after four runs.^[2][3][4] Oskars Melbārdis and Jānis Strenga of Latvia won the bronze medal.

Two-man at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates	18–19 February
Competitors	60 from 18 nations
Winning time	3:16.86
Medalists
Justin Kripps Alexander Kopacz  Canada Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis  Germany Oskars Melbārdis Jānis Strenga  Latvia
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Qualification

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The top three countries in the 2017–18 Bobsleigh season (including the World Cup, Europe races and Americas Cup) were awarded the maximum three sleds. The next six countries were awarded two sleds each. The remaining nine sleds were awarded to nine different countries, with South Korea being awarded a slot as host nation.^[5][6]

Results

The first two runs were held on 18 February and the last two runs were held on 19 February.^[7]

Rank	Bib	Country	Athletes	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Behind
	6	Canada	Justin Kripps Alexander Kopacz	49.10	49.39	49.09	49.28	3:16.86	–
	7	Germany	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	49.22	49.46	48.96 TR	49.22	3:16.86	–
	13	Latvia	Oskars Melbārdis Jānis Strenga	49.08 TR	49.54	49.08	49.21	3:16.91	+0.05
4	11	Germany	Nico Walther Christian Poser	49.12	49.27	49.32	49.35	3:17.06	+0.20
5	10	Germany	Johannes Lochner Christopher Weber	49.24	49.34	49.09	49.47	3:17.14	+0.28
6	30	South Korea	Won Yun-jong Seo Young-woo	49.50	49.39	49.15	49.36	3:17.40	+0.54
7	14	Canada	Nick Poloniato Jesse Lumsden	49.48	49.48	49.33	49.45	3:17.74	+0.88
8	15	Austria	Benjamin Maier Markus Sammer	49.41	49.47	49.32	49.56	3:17.76	+0.90
9	9	Latvia	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis	49.21	49.57	49.32	49.70	3:17.80	+0.94
10	8	Canada	Christopher Spring Lascelles Brown	49.38	49.58	49.56	49.72	3:18.24	+1.38
11	12	Switzerland	Rico Peter Simon Friedli	49.72	49.53	49.52	49.49	3:18.26	+1.40
12	2	Great Britain	Brad Hall Joel Fearon	49.37	49.50	49.67	49.80	3:18.34	+1.48
13	23	France	Romain Heinrich Dorian Hauterville	49.74	49.73	49.55	49.46	3:18.48	+1.62
14	19	United States	Justin Olsen Evan Weinstock	49.66	49.55	49.53	49.80	3:18.54	+1.68
15	24	Austria	Markus Treichl Kilian Walch	49.67	49.67	49.56	49.66	3:18.56	+1.70
16	17	Switzerland	Clemens Bracher Michael Kuonen	49.73	49.90	49.64	49.56	3:18.83	+1.97
17	21	Czech Republic	Dominik Dvořák Jakub Nosek	49.70	49.63	49.67	49.86	3:18.86	+2.00
18	26	Romania	Mihai Cristian Tentea Nicolae Ciprian Daroczi	49.69	49.72	49.93	49.64	3:18.98	+2.12
19	25	Monaco	Rudy Rinaldi Boris Vain	49.85	49.69	49.68	49.80	3:19.02	+2.16
20	18	Olympic Athletes from Russia	Alexey Stulnev Vasiliy Kondratenko	49.77	49.99	49.74	49.87	3:19.37	+2.51
21	16	United States	Nick Cunningham Hakeem Abdul-Saboor	49.96	50.11	49.62	—	2:29.69	—
22	3	Australia	Lucas Mata David Mari	49.88	50.04	49.87		2:29.79
23	29	Czech Republic	Jan Vrba Jakub Havlín	49.93	50.07	49.86		2:29.86
24	22	Poland	Mateusz Luty Krzysztof Tylkowski	49.87	50.10	49.92		2:29.89
25	20	United States	Codie Bascue Sam McGuffie	50.03	50.16	49.90		2:30.09
26	27	China	Li Chunjian Wang Sidong	50.13	50.21	50.15		2:30.49
27	1	Brazil	Edson Bindilatti Edson Ricardo Martins	50.14	50.22	50.35		2:30.71
28	5	Olympic Athletes from Russia	Maxim Andrianov Yury Selikhov (Run 1-2) Ruslan Samitov (Run 3)	50.27	50.58	49.98		2:30.83
29	28	China	Jin Jian Shi Hao	50.47	50.17	50.33		2:30.97
30	4	Croatia	Dražen Silić Benedikt Nikpalj	50.76	50.91	50.99		2:32.66

References

1. . www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
2. "Winter Olympics: Canada and Germany share two-man bobsleigh gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
3. "Bobsleigh: Canada, Germany in golden dead-heat". Reuters. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
4. "Canada's Justin Kripps ties for gold with Germany in two-man bobsleigh". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
5. (PDF). International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-19. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
6. (PDF). www.ibsf.org. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 15 January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
7. Final results