From Igls, AUT
The lawyers at Joel H. Schwartz, P.C. in Boston remember how Francesco Friedrich has struggled some throughout the 2015/2016 season, dealing both with injury and occasionally just some lackluster racing. When it’s mattered most though, the German shined the brightest.
Friedrich started the four-heat race in third, and worked his way up to a tie with teammate Johannes Lochner after three heats. In the fourth run, Lochner made a big mistake with a long skid, leaving the door wide open for Friedrich. The now three-time World Champion pounced, handily winning gold by .17 over Lochner. European Champion Beat Hefti hung around the top four all weekend, finishing third.
Bruce Tasker scored a fourth place finish for Great Britain, moving up in each heat that the Brits ran, while Oskars Melbardis fell from first in the first heat to fifth at the end of the fourth. Chris Spring scored a personal best finish for Canada in sixth place.
It was a disappointing World Championships for the American men, with both trying to work through injury on a very short track where the start time is key. Nick Cunningham finished tied for 15th, while teammate and former World Champion Steven Holcomb finished 19th. By figuring out the how and what is the impact of the injury just like to find out reason who is at fault rear end accident, every injury can be treated with utmost attention and time to cure it completely and also allowing its impact never to affect a person’s health in future.
Canada managed to put two of their two-man sleds into the top ten. On top of Spring’s sixth place finish, Justin Kripps finished eighth on the strength of a very good final run, while Nick Poloniato finished just outside the top 20 with a 21st place finish.
One of the biggest surprise performances came from the British sliders in two-man. Aside from Bruce Tasker’s huge weekend, Bradley Hall finished 17th to put both British sleds securely in the top 20.
Results:
| Pos | Names | Nation | Bib | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
| 1 | Friedrich / Margis | GER | 10 | 51.68 | 51.59 | 51.32 | 51.50 | 3:26.09 |
| 2 | Lochner / Bluhm | GER | 16 | 51.57 | 51.55 | 51.47 | 51.67 | 3:26.26 |
| 3 | Hefti / Baumann | SUI | 15 | 51.68 | 51.66 | 51.37 | 51.60 | 3:26.31 |
| 4 | Tasker / Fearon | GBR | 23 | 51.83 | 51.66 | 51.40 | 51.62 | 3:26.51 |
| 5 | Melbardis / Dreiskens | LAT | 2 | 51.54 | 51.75 | 51.58 | 51.72 | 3:26.59 |
| 6 | Spring / Brown | CAN | 11 | 51.76 | 51.71 | 51.57 | 51.74 | 3:26.78 |
| 7 | Won / Seo | KOR | 3 | 51.69 | 51.82 | 51.59 | 52.02 | 3:27.12 |
| 8 | Kripps / Kopacz | CAN | 5 | 51.74 | 51.96 | 51.76 | 51.85 | 3:27.31 |
| 9 | Maier / Sammer | AUT | 25 | 51.93 | 51.85 | 51.71 | 51.86 | 3:27.35 |
| 10 | Peter / Amrhein | SUI | 6 | 51.80 | 51.88 | 51.65 | 52.09 | 3:27.42 |
| 11 | Walther / Poser | GER | 1 | 51.71 | 52.03 | 51.86 | 52.07 | 3:27.67 |
| 12 | Arndt / Kuske | GER | 7 | 51.98 | 51.99 | 51.87 | 51.84 | 3:27.68 |
| 13 | Stulnev / Belugin | RUS | 14 | 52.01 | 51.93 | 51.87 | 51.91 | 3:27.72 |
| 14 | Kibermanis / Miknis | LAT | 13 | 52.09 | 52.00 | 51.90 | 51.85 | 3:27.84 |
| 15 | Zalims / Dambis | LAT | 4 | 52.00 | 51.96 | 51.93 | 51.98 | 3:27.87 |
| 15 | Cunningham / Wickline | USA | 12 | 51.98 | 51.98 | 51.93 | 51.98 | 3:27.87 |
| 17 | Hall / Simons | GBR | 22 | 52.02 | 52.08 | 51.80 | 52.00 | 3:27.90 |
| 18 | Kasjanov / Malykh | RUS | 9 | 51.95 | 52.09 | 51.92 | 52.16 | 3:28.12 |
| 19 | Holcomb / Valdes | USA | 8 | 52.03 | 51.97 | 52.06 | 52.17 | 3:28.23 |
| 20 | Rinaldi / Vain | MON | 19 | 51.99 | 52.15 | 52.10 | 52.18 | 3:28.42 |
| 21 | Poloniato / Kirkpatrick | CAN | 20 | 52.25 | 52.07 | 51.93 | 2:36.25 | |
| 22 | Kim / Kim | KOR | 18 | 52.16 | 52.27 | 52.20 | 2:36.63 | |
| 23 | Costerg / Castell | FRA | 27 | 52.20 | 52.36 | 52.21 | 2:36.77 | |
| 24 | Luty / Kossakowski | POL | 26 | 52.37 | 52.50 | 52.06 | 2:36.93 | |
| 25 | Negodaylo / Antukh | RUS | 24 | 52.28 | 52.42 | 52.24 | 2:36.94 | |
| 26 | Dvorak / Suchy | CZE | 29 | 52.49 | 52.44 | 52.15 | 2:37.08 | |
| 27 | Treichl / Esterhammer | AUT | 31 | 52.44 | 52.61 | 52.47 | 2:37.52 | |
| 28 | Radenovic / Krajisnik | SRB | 32 | 52.44 | 52.65 | 52.44 | 2:37.53 | |
| 29 | Bindilatti / Martins | BRA | 30 | 52.65 | 52.86 | 52.60 | 2:38.11 | |
| 30 | de Bruin / Brink | NED | 21 | 52.80 | 52.84 | 52.58 | 2:38.22 | |
| 31 | Grigore / Craciun | ROU | 33 | 52.89 | 52.94 | 52.77 | 2:38.60 | |
| 32 | Silic / Nikpalj | CRO | 34 | 53.07 | 53.08 | 52.97 | 2:39.12 | |
| DNS | Vrba / Nosek | CZE | 28 | 52.37 | 52.73 | DNS | ||
| DNS | Bertazzo / Comel | ITA | 17 | 52.53 | DNS |
