Germany’s Francesco Friedrich managed to win World Cup two-man bobsled gold medal, which is his second, but very closely holding off Latvia’s Oskars Kibermanis. Friedrich and brakeman Martin Grothkopp were way lots faster indeed in comparison with Kibermanis and Matiss Miknis in the initial run and even faster in the second run. The winning timing of Frendrich time was 1 minute, 40.25 seconds, slightly crossing Kibermanis and the 1:40.31 that he managed on his home track.
The German bobsledder Francesco Friedrich has been active in the game since 2006. Among his noteworthy performances, he along with brakeman Throsten Margis at 2018 Winter Olympics along Canada’s Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz managed to win a gold medal in the two-man level. At the same time, he had also won gold in the four men even, along with Margis, Candy Bauer along with Gorthkopp, which made Friedrich the fifth German pilot to win two-man and four-man gold in same Games. Among other Germans, Andreas Ostler, Meinhard Nehmer, Wolfgang Hoppe and Andre Lange have achieved the same.
Earlier Friendrich was a part of 2014 Winter Olympics in the doubles category, as well as in fours, to finish at eighth and tenth respectively. He has also bagged various gold medals at the IBSF World Championship. Germany also managed to stay at the third place, with Christoph Hafer and Tobias Schneider finishing in 1:40.50. Talking about the bests from the US, Codie Bascue and Hakeem Abdul-Saboor stayed at14th.
Germany completely bagged gold in all the three bobsled events in Sigulda over the weekend. Olympic champion Mariama Jamanka along with Annika Drazek managed to bag the first World Cup women’s bobsled race of this season on Friday. And Friedrich along with Alexander Schueller managed to win the season-opener of the two-man bobsled race on Saturday.
