The two-man bobsleigh competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 18 and 19 February at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz of Canada and Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany shared gold after the two teams recorded exactly the same time after four runs. Oskars Melbārdis and Jānis Strenga of Latvia won the bronze medal.
Qualification
The top three countries in the 2017–18 Bobsleigh season (including the World Cup, Europe races and Americas Cup) were awarded the maximum three sleds. The next six countries were awarded two sleds each. The remaining nine sleds were awarded to nine countries, with South Korea being awarded a slot as host nation.
Results The first two runs were held on 18 February and the last two runs were held on 19 February.
Rank Bib Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Behind 6 Justin KrippsAlexander Kopacz 49.10 49.39 49.09 49.28 3:16.86 7 Francesco FriedrichThorsten Margis 49.22 49.46 48.96 TR 49.22 3:16.86 13 Oskars MelbārdisJānis Strenga 49.08 TR 49.54 49.08 49.21 3:16.91 +0.05 11 Nico WaltherChristian Poser 49.12 49.27 49.32 49.35 3:17.06 +0.20 10 Johannes LochnerChristopher Weber 49.24 49.34 49.09 49.47 3:17.14 +0.28 30 Won Yun-jongSeo Young-woo 49.50 49.39 49.15 49.36 3:17.40 +0.54 14 Nick PoloniatoJesse Lumsden 49.48 49.48 49.33 49.45 3:17.74 +0.88 15 Benjamin MaierMarkus Sammer 49.41 49.47 49.32 49.56 3:17.76 +0.90 9 Oskars ĶibermanisMatīss Miknis 49.21 49.57 49.32 49.70 3:17.80 +0.9410 8 Christopher SpringLascelles Brown 49.38 49.58 49.56 49.72 3:18.24 +1.3811 12 Rico PeterSimon Friedli 49.72 49.53 49.52 49.49 3:18.26 +1.4012 2 Brad HallJoel Fearon 49.37 49.50 49.67 49.80 3:18.34 +1.4813 23 Romain HeinrichDorian Hauterville 49.74 49.73 49.55 49.46 3:18.48 +1.6214 19 Justin OlsenEvan Weinstock 49.66 49.55 49.53 49.80 3:18.54 +1.6815 24 Markus TreichlKilian Walch 49.67 49.67 49.56 49.66 3:18.56 +1.7016 17 Clemens BracherMichael Kuonen 49.73 49.90 49.64 49.56 3:18.83 +1.9717 21 Dominik DvořákJakub Nosek 49.70 49.63 49.67 49.86 3:18.86 +2.0018 26 Mihai Cristian Tentea 49.69 49.72 49.93 49.64 3:18.98 +2.1219 25 Rudy RinaldiBoris Vain 49.85 49.69 49.68 49.80 3:19.02 +2.1620 18 Alexey StulnevVasiliy Kondratenko 49.77 49.99 49.74 49.87 3:19.37 +2.5121 16 Nick CunninghamHakeem Abdul-Saboor 49.96 50.11 49.62 rowspan=10 2:29.69 rowspan=10 22 3 Lucas MataDavid Mari 49.88 50.04 49.87 2:29.7923 29 Jan VrbaJakub Havlín 49.93 50.07 49.86 2:29.8624 22 Mateusz LutyKrzysztof Tylkowski 49.87 50.10 49.92 2:29.8925 20 Codie BascueSam McGuffie 50.03 50.16 49.90 2:30.0926 27 Li ChunjianWang Sidong 50.13 50.21 50.15 2:30.4927 1 Edson BindilattiEdson Ricardo Martins 50.14 50.22 50.35 2:30.7128 5 Maxim AndrianovYury Selikhov (Run 1-2)Ruslan Samitov (Run 3) 50.27 50.58 49.98 2:30.8329 28 Jin JianShi Hao 50.47 50.17 50.33 2:30.9730 4 Dražen SilićBenedikt Nikpalj 50.76 50.91 50.99 2:32.66
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