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Bobsleigh At The 2022 Winter Olympics – Four-man
The four-man competition in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February (heats 1 and 2) and 20 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer, and Alexander Schüller of Germany won the gold medal, and Friedrich thereby successfully defended his 2018 Olympic title. Germany-2 driven by Johannes Lochner won the silver medal, and Canada-1, driven by Justin Kripps, won the bronze. There were two silver medals awarded in 2018. Nico Walther with Germany-2 retired from competitions, but Won Yun-jong with South Korea qualified for the Olympics. Friedrich is the 2021 World champion. Benjamin Maier and Austria is the silver medalist, and Lochner and Germany-2 are the bronze medalists. The 2021–22 Bobsleigh World Cup was completely dominated by Friedrich, who with his team won seven events out of eight races. The eighth event was won by Oskars Ķibermanis and Latvia. ...
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Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, also known as FIBT from the French . National competitions are often governed by bodies such as the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton, and the German Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton Federation. The first bobsleds were built in the late 19th century in St. Moritz, Switzerland, by wealthy tourists from Victorian Britain who were staying at the Palace Hotel owned by Caspar Badrutt. The early sleds were adapted from boys' delivery sleds and toboggans. These eventually evolved into bobsleighs, luges and skeletons. Initially the tourists would race their hand-built contraptions down the narrow streets of St. Moritz; however, as collisions increased, growing opposition from St. Moritz residents led ...
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Bobsleigh At The 2022 Winter Olympics
Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics has been held at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track which is one of the Yanqing cluster venues. A total of four bobsleigh events were held, between 4 and 20 February 2022. In July 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added the women's monobob event to the program, increasing the total number of events to four. The IOC also transferred six quotas from the men's events to the women's. The quota limit of 170 athletes remained the same from the 2018 Winter Olympics. A total of four events have been contested, two each for men and women. Qualification A maximum of 170 quota spots will be available to athletes to compete at the games (124 men and 46 women). The qualification is based on the world rankings of 16 January 2022. Competition schedule The following is the competition schedule for all four events. All times are in local time (UTC+8), according to the official schedule correct as of March 2021. This schedu ...
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Matthias Sommer
Matthias Sommer (born 3 December 1991) is a German bobsledder. He won a bronze medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ... in the two-man bobsled. References External links * * * * Matthias Sommerat the ''Bob und Schlittenverband Deutschland'' Living people 1991 births Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders for Germany German male bobsledders People from Witten Sportspeople from Arnsberg (region) Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in bobsleigh 21st-century German people {{Germany-bobsleigh-bio-stub ...
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Christoph Hafer
Christoph Hafer (born 14 April 1992) is a German bobsledder. Career Hafer started with the sport of luge on the Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track at the age of nine. In 2010, he switched to bobsleigh and has been part of the German national team since 2014. Hafer starts for BC Bad Feilnbach and Eintracht Wiesbaden. He is coached by Thomas Prange. Since 2014, he has been in the top-level sport promotion with the Bavarian State Police where he holds the rank of ''Polizeimeister'' (Constable) since 2018. References External links *Christoph Haferat the German Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton Federation German Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton Federation (german: Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland e.V., BSD) is the official federation for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton in Germany. It is the German representative both to the International Bobslei ... 1992 births Living people Olympic bobsledders for Germany People from Rosenheim (district) Sportspeople from Uppe ...
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International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF), originally known by the French name ''Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing'' (FIBT), is the international sports federation for bobsleigh and skeleton. It acts as an umbrella organization for 14 national bobsleigh and skeleton associations . It was founded on 23 November 1923 by the delegates of Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States at the meeting of their first International Congress in Paris, France. In June 2015, it announced a name change from FIBT to IBSF. The federation's headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the federation suspended the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials. It also suspended the Bobsleigh Federation of Russia until its next Congress in July 2022. History of bobsleigh The world's first bobsleigh club was founded in St. Moritz, Switzerland in 1897. By 1904, competitions were ...
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Oskars Ķibermanis
Oskars Ķibermanis (born 4 April 1993) is a Latvian bobsledder. He competed at the FIBT World Championships 2013 The FIBT World Championships 2013 took place at the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in St. Moritz, Switzerland for the record twenty-second time, after hosting the event previously in 1931 (Four-man), 1935 (Four-man), 1937 (Four-man), 1938 (Tw ... in St. Moritz, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in two-man and four-man bobsleigh. References External links * 1993 births Living people Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics Latvian male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders of Latvia People from Valmiera Bobsledders at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics {{Latvia-bobsleigh-bio-stub ...
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2021–22 Bobsleigh World Cup
The 2021–22 Bobsleigh World Cup was a multi-race series over a season for bobsleigh Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder .... The season started in Innsbruck-Igls, Austria on 20 November 2021 and finished in St. Moritz, Switzerland on 16 January 2022. The season sponsor was BMW. Calendar Below is the schedule of the 2021/22 season. Bobsleigh World Cup Women's Monobob World Series (*) - additional races Results Two-man Four-man Women’s Monobob World Series (*) - additional races Two-woman Standings Two-man Four-man Women’s Monobob World Series (*) - additional races Two-woman Medal table Points References {{DEFAULTSORT:2021-22 Bobsleigh World Cup Bobsleigh World Cup 2021 in bobsleigh 2022 ...
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Benjamin Maier
Benjamin Maier (born 19 April 1994) is an Austrian bobsledder.FIBT Profile


Career

Maier competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Austria. He teamed with brakeman Markus Sammer in the two-man event, finishing 22nd, and with Sammer, Stefan Withalm, Angel Somov and
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IBSF World Championships 2021
The 2021 IBSF World Championships was held in Altenberg, Germany from 5 to 14 February 2021. They were originally awarded to Lake Placid but were moved because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year saw the introduction of the Women's Monobob event to the World Championships. Schedule Seven events were held. ''All times are local (UTC+1).'' ;Bobsleigh ;Skeleton Russia doping ban On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021-2022 World Championships and 2022 Summer Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title ...
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Won Yun-jong
Won Yun-jong (born 17 June 1985) is a South Korean bobsledder. Won competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for South Korea. He teamed with brakeman Seo Young-woo in the South Korea-1 sled in the two-man event, finishing 18th, and with Seo, Jun Jung-lin and Suk Young-ji in the four-man, finishing 20th. As of 2017, his best showing at the World Championships is 5th, in the two-man event in 2015. Won made his World Cup debut in December 2010. As of 2017, his best World Cup finish is 1st, in 2015-16 at Whistler and Konigssee, Germany. He was the overall champion of the 2015-16 season for the two-man category. Along with teammate Seo, Won placed sixth out of 30 teams in the two-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on February 19, recording an overall time of 3:17.40 in four runs. Although they failed to win a medal, it was the best Olympic result by an Asian bobsleigh team. The following week, on February 25, the South Korean four-man team of pilot Won, Seo, Kim ...
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