2013 FIBT World Championships – Four-Man Bobsled – Heat 2

February 2, 2013 ken Bobsled News, News 0

From St. Moritz, Switzerland

Steven Holcomb and his Night Train crew had a few small skids in the top part of their second heat, but found a lot of speed at the bottom.  That, combined with a very tough run by Oskars Melbardis, puts Holcomb in third.  Swiss slider Beat Hefti makes a big move up to fourth, and is a hundredth behind the American team.

From fifth on back is where it’s once again incredibly tight. German Francesco Friedrich has fifth, but is just .03 ahead of countryman Manuel Machata, .04 ahead of Florschuetz, .05 ahead of British slider John Jackson, .07 ahead of Kasjanov and .09 ahead of Peter.

Outside of Steven Holcomb’s set of runs, it’s been a tough day for the American men.  Nick Cunningham had a much better second run, but could only make up one spot into 20th, while Codie Bascue fell back a few spots to 29th.

Lyndon Rush came into the second heat just a tenth behind fifth place, but Brown and Lumsen collided getting into the sled, causing Brown to almost fall out of the sled.  A clean run by Rush was just much slower because of the trouble with the load, and Rush falls back to 15th going into the second day of races.  Teammates Chris Spring and Justin Kripps will go into the third heat 18th and 22nd.

While John Jackson set the fast time in the second heat, Lamin Deen couldn’t make up any ground on the top 20, and will take his third heat starting .8 behind Cunningham in 23rd.

Results after Heat 2:

Pos Pilot Nation Draw Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Alexander Zubkov RUS 32 65.26 65.58 2:10.84
2 Maximilian Arndt GER 34 65.21 65.68 2:10.89
3 Steven Holcomb USA 28 65.55 65.59 2:11.14
4 Beat Hefti SUI 26 65.65 65.50 2:11.15
5 Francesco Friedrich GER 13 65.64 65.61 2:11.25
6 Manuel Machata GER 33 65.59 65.69 2:11.28
7 Thomas Florschuetz GER 30 65.63 65.66 2:11.29
8 John Jackson GBR 29 65.84 65.46 2:11.30
9 Alexander Kasjanov RUS 25 65.67 65.65 2:11.32
10 Rico Peter SUI 19 65.68 65.66 2:11.34
11 Oskars Melbardis LAT 31 65.53 65.97 2:11.50
12 Dmitry Abramovitch RUS 24 65.82 65.69 2:11.51
13 Jan Vrba CZE 23 65.89 65.79 2:11.68
14 Oskars Kibermanis LAT 17 65.91 65.89 2:11.80
15 Lyndon Rush CAN 27 65.69 66.18 2:11.87
16 Edwin Van Calker NED 9 66.11 65.83 2:11.94
17 Simone Bertazzo ITA 18 66.03 65.92 2:11.95
18 Chris Spring CAN 16 66.00 65.99 2:11.99
19 Juergen Loacker AUT 21 65.89 66.13 2:12.02
20 Nick Cunningham USA 22 66.20 66.08 2:12.28
21 Dawid Kupczyk POL 12 66.09 66.23 2:12.32
22 Justin Kripps CAN 15 66.33 66.43 2:12.76
23 Lamin Deen GBR 11 66.47 66.65 2:13.12
24 Loic Costerg FRA 7 66.67 66.54 2:13.21
25 Vuk Radjenovic SRB 10 66.68 66.57 2:13.25
26 Andreas Neagu ROU 3 66.80 66.56 2:13.36
27 Milan Jagnesak SVK 14 66.60 66.92 2:13.52
28 Lukas Gschnitzer ITA 6 66.94 66.60 2:13.54
29 Codie Bascue USA 20 66.56 67.03 2:13.59
30 Patrice Servelle MON 1 67.09 66.62 2:13.71
31 Michael Klingler LIE 8 67.17 66.58 2:13.75
32 Michael Serise BEL 4 66.88 66.97 2:13.85
33 Heath Spence AUS 5 67.27 67.01 2:14.28
34 Ivan Sola CRO 2 67.72 67.10 2:14.82