2015/2016 IBSF World Cup – Four-Man Bobsled – Race 7

From St. Moritz, SUI

Consistency is key in four-man bobsled, and this season there’s been nobody as consistent as German Max Arndt. Despite some falling snow, Arndt’s team pushed strong, and Arndt was as clean as he needed to be to take gold in St. Moritz.

The biggest surprise of the race was two consistent runs by Benjamin Maier. The Austrian came into the second run in fifth, but moved up to the silver medal position, just ahead of Latvian Oskars Melbardis.

For once, Germany was marginally on the losing side of some mid-race snow, with Francesco Friedrich and Nico Walther both missing out on medals in fourth and fifth respectively, while Latvian Oskars Kibermanis finishing a season-best sixth.

Steven Holcomb continued to struggle to find speed in his four-man sled. The American’s four-man team had a strong push and seemingly very clean second run, but finished 15th.

American Nick Cunningham finished 22nd and missed the second run after a snow-covered run seemingly cost him some time. Same went for Lamin Deen of Great Britain, who started two spots ahead of Cunningham, and finished 21st.

Justin Kripps was the top-finishing Canadian in 11th. Chris Spring raced four-man in a borrowed sled, finishing 26th for Canada, while teammate Kaillie Humphries finished 28th.

John Jackson finished 19th for Great Britain.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Arndt / Korona / Putze / Heber GER 4 65.63 66.25 2:11.88
2 Maier / Rangl / Sammer / Moldovan AUT 12 66.10 65.96 2:12.06
3 Melbadris / Dreiskens / Vilkaste / Strenga LAT 21 66.00 66.15 2:12.15
4 Friedrich / Bauer / Bermbach / Margis GER 2 66.06 66.18 2:12.24
5 Walther / Hübenbecker / Poser / Franke GER 1 65.91 66.41 2:12.32
6 Kibermanis / Jansons / Miknis / Leiboms LAT 11 66.27 66.10 2:12.37
7 Peter / Friedli / Amrhein / Badraun SUI 10 66.44 66.23 2:12.67
8 Kasjanov / Huzin / Pushkarev / Malykh RUS 8 66.31 66.43 2:12.74
9 Vrba / Suchy / Stoklaska / Nosek CZE 19 66.29 66.46 2:12.75
10 Bertazzo / Fontana / Ughi / Costa ITA 6 66.34 66.43 2:12.77
11 Kripps / Kopacz / Plug / Coakwell CAN 9 66.54 66.32 2:12.86
12 Zakharov / Selikhov / Moiseev / Antukh RUS 13 66.36 66.51 2:12.87
13 Zalims / Lusis / Zirups / Dambis LAT 17 66.56 66.32 2:12.88
14 Costerg / Pujar / Castell / Boutherin FRA 18 66.40 66.50 2:12.90
15 Holcomb / Del Duca / Valdes / McGuffie USA 14 66.52 66.40 2:12.92
16 Stulnev / Mokrousov / Belugin / Sadeev RUS 3 66.37 66.56 2:12.93
17 Kolb / Laussegger / Treichl / Esterhammer AUT 23 66.28 66.73 2:13.01
18 Meyerhans / Ekimov / Dobler / Bröning SUI 24 66.49 66.57 2:13.06
19 Jackson / Hall / Tasker / Simons GBR 16 66.63 66.57 2:13.20
20 Won / Kim / Kim / Oh KOR 20 66.58 66.88 2:13.46
21 Deen / Baines / Bearon / Matthews GBR 5 66.71
22 Cunningham / Wickline / Reed / Michener USA 7 66.77
23 Dvorak / Sindelar / Kopriva / Havlin CZE 25 66.79
24 Bindilatti / Martins / Parreiras / da Silva BRA 29 66.85
25 Heibl / Heibl / Bjugn / Winger NOR 27 66.92
26 Spring / Kirkpatrick / Brown / Giguere CAN 15 67.00
27 de Bruin / Boonpetch / Brink / Veenker NED 26 67.43
28 Humphries / Lee / Appiah / Lotholz CAN 22 68.58
DNS Luty / Zakrzewski / Miedzik / Kossakowski POL 28 DNS