Bobsleigh at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Two-man

The two-man bobsleigh competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was held at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, British Columbia on 20–21 February.2010 Winter Olympics bobsleigh schedule. - accessed 5 November 2009. The German team of André Lange and Kevin Kuske were the defending Olympic champions in this event.2006 Winter Olympics bobsleigh two-man results. - accessed 5 November 2009. Switzerland's team of Ivo Rüegg and Cedric Grand were the defending world champions in this event.FIBT World Championships 2009 bobsleigh two-man results. - accessed 5 November 2009. The test event held at the Olympic venue was won by the German duo of Thomas Florschütz and Marc Kühne.Whistler Sliding Centre World Cup 6 February 2009 bobsleigh two-man results. - accessed 5 November 2009. The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games took place in Igls, Austria (southeast of Innsbruck) on 23 January 2010 and was won by the Swiss duo of Beat Hefti and Thomas LamparterFIBT Bobsleigh World Cup Igls 23 January 2010 two-man results. - accessed 23 January 2010. while Rüegg won the overall World Cup in the two-man event.FIBT Bobsleigh World Cup final two-man rankings. - accessed 23 January 2010.

Records While the IOC does not consider bobsled times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.

The start and track records were set at the test event for the 2010 Games on 6 February 2009.

Type Date Team Time Start 6 February 2009 Beat HeftiThomas Lamparter 4.70 Track 6 February 2009 Beat HeftiThomas Lamparter 51.95

Qualifying teams On 20 January 2010, the FIBT announced that the following teams had qualified for the 2010 Games: (20 January 2010 article accessed 21 January 2010.)FIBT bobsleigh two-man quotas for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - 20 January 2010 article accessed 21 January 2010. This was finalized on 26 January 2010. (26 January 2010 article accessed 27 January 2010.26 January 2010 FIBT final allocation of the bobsleigh two-man teams for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 27 January 2010.

Three teams , , and .

Two teams , , , , , .

One team , , , , , , , , and .

Practice Bobsleigh practice began on 17 February 2010 with the two-man event. Eight crashes among 57 runs took place that day. (18 February 2010 article accessed 18 February 2010.) Three crashes occurred during the 18 February 2010 two-man training session. (20 February 2010 article accessed 20 February 2010."Bobsleigh-Injuries leave Swiss in disarray." - Martyn Herman 19 February 2010 Yahoo! Sports article accessed 20 February 2010. Among the crashes in the two-man event were Switzerland's Beat Hefti and Daniel Schmid who both withdrew from the two man event. Meanwhile, Latvia's Janis Minins withdrew to appendicitis and the emergency surgery that followed on 12 February."Bobsleigh-Latvian wildman flies again after hiccup hell". - 23 February 2010 Martyn Herman Yahoo! Sports article accessed 24 February 2010. Minins returned to competition for the four-man event eleven days later though he withdrew from the four-man event on 25 February to crashing twice during practice where one of his crews suffering a concussion and another suffering bruised lungs and elbows."Latvia withdraws from four-man event". - AP Yahoo! Sports 25 February 2010 article accessed 27 February 2010.

Results The first two runs took place on 20 February at 17:00 PST and 18:30 PST. On 21 February, the final two runs were scheduled to take place at 13:30 PST and 14:45 PST, but started at 16:00 PST for run three and 17:35 PST for run four to unseasonable warm weather. (21 February 2010 article accessed 21 February 2010.) Temperatures reached on the afternoon of the 20th and were expected to reach on the afternoon of the 21st.

First run start order was released on the afternoon of 19 February 2010.2010 Winter Olympics 19 February 2010 Bobsleigh two-man start. - accessed 20 February 2010.

Australia 2 crashed out in run 1 while Great Britain 1 was disqualified when the brakeman Money was ejected from his sled during the first run. (21 February 2010 article accessed 21 February 2010.) Austria 1 was disqualified for violating the total weight rule. Liechtenstein 1 crashed out during the first run and finished, but did not start the second run of the event.

For run 3, Bisset replace Brown in Canada 1 while Harvey replaced Ryan in Australia 1. Italy 1 was disqualified in run 3 for reasons not given. Only the top 20 teams competed in the fourth run. No crashes occurred in the final two runs of the event."Germany's Lange wins gold in bobsled". - 21 February 2010 Tom Withers (AP) article in Yahoo! Sports accessed 22 February 2010. Lange tied the track record in the third run that was sent by Florschütz in the second run. (22 February 2010 article accessed 22 February 2010.) The German duo of Lange and Kuske won his record fourth gold medal in bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics and became the second repeat winners of the two-man event after Switzerland's Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin won the event in both 1992 and 1994.Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh: Two-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 159.

TR - Track Record. Top finish in each run is in boldface.

Rank Bib Country Athletes Run 1 2010 Winter Olympics 20 February 2010 Bobsleigh two-man heat 1 results. - accessed 21 February 2010. Run 22010 Winter Olympics 20 February 2010 Bobsleigh two-man heat 2 results. - accessed 21 February 2010. Run 3 2010 Winter Olympics 21 February 2010 Bobsleigh two-man heat 3 results. - accessed 22 February 2010. Run 42010 Winter Olympics 21 February 2010 Bobsleigh two-man heat 4 results. - accessed 22 February 2010. Total Behind 4 André Lange Kevin Kuske 51.59 51.72 51.57-TR 51.77 3:26.65 2 Thomas Florschütz Richard Adjei 51.57-TR 51.85 51.62 51.83 3:26.87 +0.22 7 Alexandr Zubkov Alexey Voyevoda 51.79 52.02 51.80 51.90 3:27.51 +0.86 1 Ivo Rüegg Cedric Grand 51.76 52.18 51.92 51.99 3:27.85 +1.20 9 Pierre Lueders Jesse Lumsden 51.94 52.12 51.87 51.94 3:27.87 +1.22 6 Steve Holcomb Curtis Tomasevicz 51.89 52.04 51.98 52.03 3:27.94 +1.29 11 Dmitry Abramovitch Sergey Prudnikov 52.03 52.40 52.11 51.92 3:28.46 +1.81 25 Edgars Maskalāns Daumants Dreiškens 52.16 52.32 52.17 52.43 3:29.08 +2.43 3 Karl Angerer Gregor Bermbach 52.23 52.43 52.19 52.44 3:29.29 +2.64 10 8 John Napier Steven Langton 52.28 52.45 52.31 52.36 3:29.40 +2.75 11 14 Nicolae Istrate Florin Cezar Craciun 52.19 52.41 52.40 52.43 3:29.43 +2.78 12 13 Mike Kohn Nick Cunningham 52.47 52.71 52.25 52.35 3:29.78 +3.13 13 16 Ivo Danilevic Jan Stoklaska 52.73 52.59 52.52 52.44 3:30.28 +3.63 14 10 Edwin van Calker Sybren Jansma 52.37 52.83 52.63 52.62 3:30.45 +3.80 15 5 Lyndon Rush Lascelles Brown (Runs 1-2)David Bissett (Runs 3-4) 51.67 54.70 51.93 52.16 3:30.46 +3.81 16 19 Dawid Kupczyk Marcin Niewiara 52.45 52.91 52.42 52.72 3:30.50 +3.85 17 18 Fabrizio Tosini Sergio Riva 52.84 52.83 52.34 52.65 3:30.66 +4.01 18 15 Jürgen Loacker Christian Hackl 52.55 52.86 52.73 52.64 3:30.78 +4.13 19 21 Patrice Servelle Sébastien Gattuso 52.96 52.61 52.71 52.56 3:30.84 +4.19 20 20 Milan Jagnešák Petr Narovec 53.18 53.16 52.73 52.99 3:32.06 +5.41 21 23 Hiroshi Suzuki Ryuichi Kobayashi 53.24 53.30 53.13 22 17 Christopher Spring Duncan Harvey (Runs 1-2)Anthony Ryan (Run 3) 53.14 54.41 53.18 12 Simone Bertazzo Samuele Romanini 52.33 52.88 22 Michael Klingler Thomas Dürr 56.18 27 Jeremy Rollestone Duncan Pugh 26 Wolfgang Stampfer Juergen Mayer 24 John James Jackson Dan Money

References

External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Two-Man (heat 1), from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-20. 2010 Winter Olympics results: Two-Man (heat 2), from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-20. 2010 Winter Olympics results: Two-Man (heat 3), from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-20. 2010 Winter Olympics results: Two-Man (heat 4), from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-20.