Status: 02.01.2022 4:46 p.m.
The slip from the previous day has been forgotten: Francesco Friedrich is back at the top of the ranking and has won the next World Cup.
After his surprisingly poor performance on Saturday, Bob Dominator Francesco Friedrich has reported back. In the second two-man bobsleigh competition of the weekend in Sigulda, Latvia, he set the best time in both races with his push-puller Thorsten Margis on Sunday (January 2nd, 2022). The Oberbärenburger was able to celebrate his 42nd victory in the small sled.
“It’s always very close here, you can’t afford to make a lot of mistakes. It was just enough today, we were a little lucky. But we’re happy that we fought back after yesterday,” is the conclusion of the five-time overall World Cup. Winner.
Hall again in second place
Friedrich left the British Brad Hall and Nick Gleeson (+ 0.06 seconds) and the sled of the Latvian local hero Oskars Kibermanis (with Matiss Miknis / + 0.55 seconds) behind. Hall had already secured second place the day before and thus underlined his current strong form. He fought a thrilling duel with Friedrich up to the finish line and was at the same time in the second run.
The Russian Rostislav Gaitiukevich, who drove to his first World Cup victory on Saturday with Friedrich’s poor performance, finished seventh.
Lochner is happy to have “arrived on all runners”
Johannes Lochner didn’t have a good day, made a number of mistakes in both races and almost overturned once. Accordingly, after crossing the finish line, he got out of his vehicle, shaking his head: “The track was definitely my final boss this week. I’ve never had so many problems here, I made big mistakes in every training session and race. I’m glad that we were down on all runners We’ll tick that off now! “, Lochner explained afterwards. In the final bill, the performance was only enough for ninth place (+ 0.81 sec).
Oats at a loss in the top ten
This placed him one place better than his teammate Christoph Hafer, who finished tenth (+0.88 seconds) like on Saturday. He was still sixth at halftime. However, Hafer, in whose sled Lukas Frytz made his two-man bobsleigh World Cup debut, left too much time at the start and in the first corners and was unable to catch up in the lower part of the track. “I’m a bit at a loss. Actually, the run was good and I only had a few little things in it upstairs. I didn’t think that this would make so much difference and that I would fall back so far. I’m a little baffled,” said Hafer.
Source: sportschau.de