Lisa Buckwitz and nFriedrich strike bobsleigh gold in Innsbruck for Germany, Brad Hall takes second for Team GB
BySportsbeat
Updated 12/02/2023 at 14:35 GMT
Liza Buckwitz won the women's monobob while Francesco Friedrich led his quartet to four-man bob gold. Much like Buckwitz, Friedrich and team-mates Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer and Alexander Schueller set a new track record in their first run, with a time of 50.28s seeing them lead at the halfway point. And a second solid run of 50.37s powered them to victory.
Buckwitz Lisa, Lipperheide Kira of Germany in action during the women's 2-man bobsleigh final of the BMW IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championship 2023 at Olympia Bob Run St. MoritzCelerina on February 3, 2023 in St Moritz, Switzerland
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There was a German double in Innsbruck as Lisa Buckwitz and Francesco Friedrich both claimed World Cup gold.
In the women's monobob, Buckwitz set a new track record on her way to claiming gold in the penultimate World Cup event of the season.
The German finished the course in a record time of 54.49s in her opening run, and her second run time of 54.71s was enough to see her top the podium with a combined time of 1:49.20.
Australia's Breanna Walker took silver in second place, 0.18s behind the gold medallist, while Canada's Cynthia Appiah rounded out the podium by finishing in third, just fourth-hundredths off a silver medal.
Reigning Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries came home in fourth place, with Ying Qing in fifth and Laure Nolte in sixth.
The result in Innsbruck means that Humphries still tops the overall World Cup standings ahead of the final meet in Sigulda next weekend, with Nolte in second place.
Later on the day, Friedrich led his quartet to victory in the men's four-man bob, fending off competition from Great Britain's Brad Hall to claim gold.
Much like Buckwitz, Friedrich and team-mates Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer and Alexander Schueller set a new track record in their first run, with a time of 50.28s seeing them lead at the halfway point.
And a second solid run of 50.37s powered them to victory, the German quartet finishing 0.19s ahead of Hall and the British quartet in second.
There was more success for Germany to cheer as well with a second quartet, led by Johannes Lochner, coming home to finish in third place and take a bronze medal.
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