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RSS FeedsCanada ties for gold in two-man bobsled
(The Star Food)

 
 

19 february 2018 16:35:57

 
Canada ties for gold in two-man bobsled
(The Star Food)
 


Canada’s Justin Kripps and Germany’s Francesco Friedrich tied for gold in men’s two-man bobsled Monday at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.The Summerland, B.C., product and brakeman Alex Kopacz of London, Ont., slid to a combined four-run time of three minutes 16.86 seconds.Kripps joins Pierre Lueders, who took gold at the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan — also in a tie — as the only Canadians to top an Olympic podium in two-man.Lueders also won two-man silver at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy, for the country’s other medal in the discipline.Lueders coaches the South Korean bobsled team and was at the track to witness Kripps’s medal.Friedrich and Thorsten Margis also finished in 3:16.91 on Monday, while Latvia’s Oskars Melbardis and Janis Strenga won bronze in 3:16.91.Hamilton’s Nick Poloniato and brakeman Jesse Lumsden — the former CFL running back from Burlington, Ont. — wound up in seventh in 3:17.74. Australian-born Chris Spring of Priddis, Alta., and Lascelles Brown of Calgary were 10th in 3:18.24.Kripps sat second after Sunday’s first two heats at the Olympic Sliding Centre in Pyeongchang, but jumped into first on his third trip down the track that measures just over 1,375 metres with a time of 49.32 seconds.He headed into the fourth and final run 0.06 seconds up on Friedrich, who set a track record of 48.96 seconds in the third heat to leap from fifth to second, and 0.09 seconds ahead of Lochner.The Canadian duo was slightly behind the Germans in the early part of the fourth run but quickly picked up speed before crossing in a deadlock time with Friedrich.A brakeman for Lueders in four-man at the 2010 Games in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., Kripps raced to a sixth-place showing in his Olympic debut as a two-man pilot in Sochi four years ago. Spring was seventh in that race.The Canadians technically finished fourth and fifth after two Russian pilots were recently stripped of their 2014 re ...


 
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