Anniversary: ​​70th World Cup victory for bobsledder Friedrich

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70th World Cup victory for bobsledder Friedrich

Francesco Friedrich and his team also won the four-man bobsleigh. photo

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The German four-man bobsleigh crews secured a triple success in Park City. Francesco Friedrich recorded his 70th World Cup victory after celebrating his victory premiere in a small sled on the 2002 Olympic track the day before.

The German four-man bobsleigh crews secured a triple success in Park City. Francesco Friedrich recorded his 70th World Cup victory after celebrating his victory premiere in a small sled on the 2002 Olympic track the day before.

With his crew Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer and Alexander Schüller, he prevailed with a lead of 0.23 seconds over Johannes Lochner, whose brakeman Erec Bruckert, Georg Fleischhauer and Christian Rasp each set two best times at the start. Third, just a hundredth of a second behind, was Christoph Hafer with Michael Salzer, Matthias Sommer and Tobias Schneider.

“We finally have the victory here and the 70th World Cup victory, now only a four-man win in Lake Placid is missing. We have another task that we want to do well. We have to get better at the start and make ourselves fitter than we are are up to date,” said Friedrich from Pirna.

Friedrich had previously closed the gap in his collection of titles by winning the two-man bobsleigh, in which he and Margis, after third place, still raced to first place ahead of Brits Brad Hall/Taylor Lawrence at half-time. In the women’s bobsleigh, Kim Kalicki/Leonie Fiebig and Laura Nolte/Lena Neudecker achieved a double win.

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