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Germans win two-man, Brits take four-man bobsled

Team USA's driver Frank Del Duca jumps in the bobsled while crew members Adrian Adams, Martin Christofferson and Manteo Mitchell continue to push at the start of their first run on Dec. 18. (News photo — Parker O’Brien)

LAKE PLACID — The second day of the IBSF World Cup in Lake Placid wrapped up with Germany taking the top two spots in the two-man bobsled event on Dec. 17.

In the third race of the season, Germany’s Johannes Lochner, the Olympic silver medalist from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, stood on top of the two-man bobsled podium alongside push athlete Georg Fleischhauer. Lochner and Fleischhauser won gold in the event with a combined run time of 1 minute, 51.88 seconds.

The pair finished 0.32 seconds ahead of Olympic and World Champion Francesco Friedrich with Alexander Schueller, of Germany, after the two race runs at the Mount Van Hoevenberg track. Friedrich and Schueller finished with a time of 1:52.20, while Switzerland’s Michael Vogt and Sandro Michel finished third in 1:52.26.

Markus Treichl/Markus Sammer from Austria celebrated their best ever World Cup result in two-man bobsleigh with sixth place in 1:53.50.

Team USA’s top team was piloted by Frank Del Duca, with push-athlete Hakeem Abdul-Saboor. The team took eighth place in 1:53.59. Fellow Americans, Geoffrey Gadbois and Martin Christofferson took 10th place in 1:54.13.

Four-man bobsled

Bobsled pilot Brad Hall from Great Britain, with Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett as his pusher crew earned gold in the four-man bobsled race on Dec. 18. The British team won its first four-man race since 2017 in 1:50.36.

Team Hall relegated Germany’s Olympic and World Champion, Friedrich, with Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer and Felix Straub to second place by one-hundredth of a second after the two race heats. The German team finished in 1:50.37.

Germany’s Christoph Hafer with Michael Salzer, Kevin Korona and Tobias Schneider took third place overall in 1:50.43. Hafer entered the second run as the leader but fell just short.

Del Duca with Christofferson, Adrian Adams and Manteo Mitchell finished as the top U.S. four-man team in sixth place with a time of 1:51.19. The result was the best by the Team USA’s four-man team in a World Cup so far this season.

Team USA’s Gadbois with Carsten Vissering, Quentin Willey and Darius Joseph earned 12th place in 1:51.87.

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