BOB World Cup: Leadership in two in two-way bobs: Friedrich grabs gold

The fight for World Cup medals in the two-way bob again becomes a German matter. At half -time for the title fights in Lake Placid, defending champion Francesco Friedrich with spider Alexander Schüller leads with a 0.14 second lead ahead of his permanent rival Johannes Lochner, who drives with Georg Fleischhauer. Adam Ammour rounded off the strong performance of the Germans with Benedikt Hertel in third place at halftime. Already last year at the World Cup in Winterberg, the German team was closed on the podium.

The two-time double Olympic champion Friedrich from BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg went into the race with number one and immediately presented the best time thanks to Topspeed. He only misses the 22 -year -old rail record of the Canadian Pierre Lueders (54.61) by three hundredths of a second. Immediately behind the Berchtesgadener Lochner, who was the only pilot to snatch the World Cup gold in St. Moritz in the past eleven years. But in the harassment he had clear problems and had to leave the Pirna Friedrich a tenth of a second.

Ammour and Lochner with the best time

Ammour from BRC Thuringia drove both toppilots into the parade with the best time of 5.12 seconds, but with his identical FES-driven did not really get the top speed like Friedrich.

In the second round at snowfall on the complex and difficult path on Mount van Hoevenberg, which has the highest number of corporations worldwide with 20 curve, Lochner/Fleischhauer did the best time with 5.05 seconds, the journey was also significantly better. “The first run was not entirely clean, we improved significantly in the second run,” said Lochner.

But Friedrich probably had a good hand in the material and, with the second best time, expanded his lead again in front of the two final runs this Sunday. “We had two good runs, but not a perfect one. 14 hundredths are not a big upholstery,” said Friedrich.