FIBT World Cup – Round 3 – Women’s Bobsled

From Winterberg, Germany

It seemed as though the GER-3 sled of Schneiderheinze/Thöne just needed a clean run to take gold.  Mother Nature changed those plans, however, and the team of Martini/Tischer in GER-2 take gold.

The wind picked up, and many of the fast sliders from run one fell back, with CAN-1 falling all the way back to 10th.  That allowed the USA-1 sled of Meyers/Eberling to move to fourth place, just barely off the podium.

Final results:

Pos Names Draw Nation Run 1 Run 2 Time
1 Martini/Tischer 4 GER 2 58.20 58.12 1:56.32
2 Schneiderheinze/Thöne 9 GER 3 57.88 58.72 1:56.60
3 Meyer/Schenk 6 SUI 1 58.20 58.53 1:56.73
4 Meyers/Eberling 3 USA 1 58.46 58.39 1:56.85
5 Hengster/Versen 2 AUS 1 58.50 58.43 1:56.93
6 Fedorova/Timofeeva 10 RUS 1 58.55 58.42 1:56.97
7 Kiriasis/Lammert 1 GER 1 57.98 59.11 1:57.09
8 Tambovtseva/Udobkina 8 RUS 2 58.66 58.66 1:57.32
9 Schaaf/Azevedo 11 USA 2 58.69 58.75 1:57.44
10 Humphries/Baadsvik 7 CAN 1 57.98 59.77 1:57.75
11 Ciochetti/O’Brien 15 CAN 2 58.89 59.06 1:57.96
12 Walker/Wilson 5 GBR 1 58.87 59.09 1:57.96
13 Fenlator/Marcum 12 USA 3 59.41 59.02 1:58.43
14 Tokovaya/Pahmutova 13 RUS 3 58.93 59.62 1:58.55
15 Willemsen/Vannieuwenhu 16 BEL 1 59.57 59.76 1:59.33
16 Radjenovic/Hedge 14 AUS 1 59.17 60.37 1:59.54
17 Patterson/Young 17 CAN 3 60.06 59.88 1:59.94
18 Willemarck/Hellebuyck 19 BEL 2 60.15 59.93 2:00.08
19 Tronescu/Spartaru 18 ROU 1 60.49 60.02 2:00.51
20 Diaconu/Ciobanu 20 ROU 2 61.26 60.67 2:01.93