Jannusch Wins 1st Career 4-man EC Gold in Igls

From Igls, AUT

(Jan. 11, 2019) – Jonas Jannusch won gold in Igls, edging out Russian Rostislav Gaitiukevich in the process.

Gaitiukevich was quicker off the top than Jannusch, but the German came back late to win his first career race by just .05.

The medal for Jannusch was his fifth career 4-man medal.

Bennet Buchmüller finished third to win bronze, just .02 ahead of teammate Richard Oelsner in fourth and .04 ahead of Patrick Baumgartner in 5th.

Ivan Linyuchev rounded out the top six.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Start 1 Run 1
1 Jannusch / Hertel / Ebert / Röder GER 5.18 51.44
2 Gaitiukevich / Zakhryapin / Zharovtsev / Sysoev RUS 5.12 51.49
3 Buchmüller / Bruckert / Dabrunst / Heber GER 5.19 51.64
4 Oelsner / Bosse / Strauss / Laurenz GER 5.22 51.66
5 Baumgartner / Fontana / Verginer / Bilotti ITA 5.22 51.68
6 Linyuchev / Bnakov / Tarasov / Gura RUS 5.24 51.75
7 Suk / Lee / Kim / Bae KOR 5.23 51.80
8 Tentea / Dobre / Daroczi / Bugheanu ROU 5.22 51.81
9 Mouliner / Leimgruber / Ferrari / Tanner SUI 5.28 51.93
10 Shao / Liu / Shi / Wu CHN 5.28 52.00
11 Friedli / Kellenberger / Amrhein / Jones SUI 5.30 52.06
12 Follador / Moser / Nikpalj / Achermann SUI 5.35 52.07
12 Li / Sun / Wang / Ma CHN 5.31 52.07
14 Jin / Wu / Wang / Chen CHN 5.31 52.13
15 Shinohara / Takahashi / Sasaki / Kaneko JPN 5.36 52.46
16 Kuonen / Kuonen / Dörig / Guerra SUI 5.41 52.48
17 Sun / Hong / Zhang / Ye CHN 5.38 52.71
18 Ughi / Proserpio / Fierro / Variola ITA 5.40 52.78
19 Stano / Grudzien / Kaminski / Olczyk POL 5.43 52.88
20 Geiger / Topcu / Viers / Pöttinger AUT 5.71 53.40