2018–19 Bobsleigh World Cup

Winners
Two-man	Francesco Friedrich
Four-man	Francesco Friedrich
Combined men's	Francesco Friedrich
Two-woman	Mariama Jamanka
Competitions
Venues	8 (8 events)
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The 2018–19 Bobsleigh World Cup was a multi-race series over a season for bobsleigh. The season started on 8 December 2018 in Sigulda, Latvia and finished on 24 February 2019 in Calgary, Canada. The World Cup was organised by the IBSF (formerly the FIBT) who also run World Cups and Championships in skeleton. The season was sponsored by BMW.

Calendar

Below is the schedule of the 2018–19 season.

Venue	Date	Details
Sigulda	7–9 December 2018	No Four-man race. Double race for two-man.
Winterberg	15–16 December 2018	No Two-man race. Double race for four-man.
Altenberg	5–6 January 2019
Königssee	12–13 January 2019	also European Championships
Innsbruck	19–20 January 2019
St. Moritz	26–27 January 2019
Lake Placid	15–16 February 2019
Calgary	23–24 February 2019
Whistler	3–9 March 2019	World Championships

Results

Two-man

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Sigulda 1	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller   Germany	1:39.97 (49.86/50.11)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis   Latvia	1:40.39 (50.14/50.25)	Benjamin Maier Markus Sammer   Austria	1:40.63 (50.11/50.54)
Sigulda 2	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp   Germany	1:40.25 (50.00/50.25)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis   Latvia	1:40.31 (50.02/50.29)	Christoph Hafer Tobias Schneider   Germany	1:40.50 (50.07/50.43)
Altenberg	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis   Germany	1:52.19 (56.38 / 55.81)	Justin Kripps Cameron Stones   Canada	1:52.56 (56.30 / 56.26)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis   Latvia	1:52.67 (56.37 / 56.30)
Königssee	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp   Germany	1:39.01 (49.54 / 49.47)	Justin Kripps Cameron Stones   Canada	1:39.12 (49.51 / 49.61)	Johannes Lochner Christian Rasp   Germany	1:39.44 (49.67 / 49.77)
Innsbruck	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis   Germany	1:42.85 (51.39 / 51.46)	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer   Germany	1:43.00 (51.47 / 51.53)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis   Latvia	1:43.19 (51.49 / 51.70)
St. Moritz	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller   Germany	2:12.29 (1:06.24 / 1:06.05)	Johannes Lochner Christian Rasp   Germany	2:12.69 (1:06.55 / 1:06.14)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis   Latvia	2:12.80 (1:06.46 / 1:06.34)
Lake Placid	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis   Germany	1:52.35 (55.97 / 56.38)	Romain Heinrich Dorian Hauterville   France	1:52.63 (56.12 / 56.51)	Justin Kripps Cameron Stones   Canada	1:52.65 (56.17 / 56.48)
Calgary	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis   Germany	1:50.84 (55.47 / 55.37)	Justin Kripps Ryan Sommer   Canada	1:50.93 (55.51 / 55.42)	Johannes Lochner Christopher Weber   Germany	1:51.07 (55.63 / 55.44)

Four-man

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Winterberg 1	Nico Walther Paul Krenz Alexander Rödiger Eric Franke   Germany	1:48.61 (54.24 / 54.37)	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller Jannis Bäcker Martin Grothkopp   Germany	1:48.68 (54.26 / 54.42)	Johannes Lochner Christopher Weber Florian Bauer Christian Rasp   Germany	1:48.83 (54.48 / 54.35)
Winterberg 2	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp   Germany	1:48.57 (54.37 / 54.20)	Johannes Lochner Christian Rasp Marc Rademacher Christopher Weber   Germany	1:48.93 (54.39 / 54.54)	Nico Walther Marko Hübenbecker Alexander Rödiger Eric Franke   Germany	1:49.03 (54.52 / 54.51)
Altenberg	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis Candy Bauer   Germany	1:48.47 (54.15 / 54.32)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis Jānis Strenga Arvis Vilkaste   Latvia	1:48.78 (54.40 / 54.38)	Nico Walther Paul Krenz Alexander Rödiger Eric Franke   Germany	1:48.98 (54.55 / 54.43)
Königssee	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Marc Rademacher Christian Rasp   Germany	1:37.74 (48.97 / 48.77)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga   Latvia	1:37.92 (49.01 / 48.91)	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp Alexander Schüller   Germany	1:37.96 (49.03 / 48.93)
Innsbruck	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis Alexander Schüller   Germany	1:41.17 (50.42 / 50.75)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga   Latvia	1:41.36 (50.55 / 50.81)	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Marc Rademacher Christian Rasp   Germany	1:41.61 (50.81 / 50.80)
St. Moritz	Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp   Germany	2:10.48 (1:05.46 / 1:05.02)	Johannes Lochner Gregor Bermbach Christian Rasp Florian Bauer   Germany	2:10.99 (1:05.59 / 1:05.40)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis Jānis Strenga Helvijs Lūsis   Latvia	2:11.01 (1:05.82 / 1:05.19)
Lake Placid	Justin Kripps Benjamin Coakwell Ryan Sommer Cameron Stones   Canada	1:49.54 (54.79 / 54.75)	Oskars Ķibermanis Jānis Strenga Arvis Vilkaste Matīss Miknis   Latvia	1:49.61 (54.78 / 54.83)	Maksim Andrianov Vasiliy Kondratenko Alexey Zaitsev Ruslan Samitov   Russia	1:49.67 (54.77 / 54.90)
Calgary	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis   Germany	1:47.63 (53.60 / 54.03)	Nico Walther Paul Krenz Alexander Rödiger Eric Franke   Germany	1:47.82 (53.69 / 54.13)	Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Christopher Weber Christian Rasp   Germany	1:47.84 (53.83 / 54.01)

Two-woman

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Sigulda	Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek   Germany	1:42.68 (51.28 / 51.40)	Nadezhda Sergeeva Yulia Belomestnykh   Russia	1:43.29 (51.26 / 51.73)	Anna Köhler Lisa Sophie Gericke   Germany	1:43.50 (51.80 / 51.70)
Winterberg	Stephanie Schneider Ann-Christin Strack   Germany	1:53.57 (56.87 / 56.70)	Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek   Germany	1:53.64 (56.79 / 56.85)	Elana Meyers Taylor Lake Kwaza   United States	1:53.65 (56.96 / 56.69)
Altenberg	Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek   Germany	1:57.25 (59.07 / 58.18)	Christine de Bruin Kristen Bujnowski   Canada	1:57.56 (59.18 / 58.38)	Elana Meyers Taylor Lake Kwaza   United States	1:57.64 (59.13 / 58.51)
Königssee	Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek   Germany	1:41.70 (50.85 / 50.85)	Elana Meyers Taylor Lake Kwaza   United States	1:42.06 (51.18 / 50.88)	Stephanie Schneider Ann-Christin Strack   Germany	1:42.19 (51.17 / 51.02)
Innsbruck	Stephanie Schneider Ann-Christin Strack   Germany	1:46.06 (53.10 / 52.96)	Mariama Jamanka Kira Lipperheide   Germany	1:46.17 (53.09 / 53.08)	Elana Meyers Taylor Sylvia Hoffmann   United States	1:46.23 (53.04 / 53.19)
St. Moritz	Elana Meyers Taylor Lauren Gibbs   United States	2:16.11 (1:08.09 / 1:08.02)	Stephanie Schneider Lisa Sophie Gericke   Germany	2:16.71 (1:08.21 / 1:08.50)	Mariama Jamanka Franziska Bertels   Germany	2:16.87 (1:08.31 / 1:08.56)
Lake Placid	Elana Meyers Taylor Lake Kwaza   United States	1:54.79 (57.31 / 57.48)	Christine de Bruin Kristen Bujnowski   Canada	1:55.17 (57.34 / 57.83)	Stephanie Schneider Deborah Levi   Germany	1:55.27 (57.20 / 58.07)
Calgary	Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek   Germany	1:53.63 (56.65 / 56.98)	Elana Meyers Taylor Lauren Gibbs   United States	1:53.94 (56.84 / 57.10)	Stephanie Schneider Ann-Christin Strack   Germany	1:54.05 (56.96 / 57.09)

Standings

Two-man

Pos.	Racer	SIG 1	SIG 2	ALT	KON	IGL	STM	LPL	CGR	Points
1	Francesco Friedrich ( GER)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1800
2	Oskars Ķibermanis ( LAT)	2	2	3	5	3	3	5	6	1564
3	Nico Walther ( GER)	6	4	4	5	–	14	4	5	1232
4	Dominik Dvořák ( CZE)	4	6	13	14	5	10	17	11	1152
5	Won Yun-jong ( KOR)	14	12	9	20	10	5	8	4	1140
6	Romain Heinrich ( FRA)	–	–	5	4	8	9	2	8	1058
7	Maxim Andrianov ( RUS)	5	5	6	8	17	17	20	17	1036
8	Justin Kripps ( CAN)	–	–	2	2	4	–	3	2	1022
9	Mateusz Luty ( POL)	11	11	11	7	14	7	–	10	1000
10	Johannes Lochner ( GER)	–	–	DNF	3	2	2	7	3	988
11	Markus Treichl ( AUT)	10	10	8	11	11	15	–	16	920
12	Ivo De Bruin ( NED)	16	DNS	7	12	15	11	11	13	888
13	Michael Vogt ( SUI)	18	17	–	15	12	4	12	9	872
14	Codie Bascue ( USA)	9	14	17	16	17	13	9	–	808
15	Justin Olsen ( USA)	17	16	19	18	17	16	14	12	762
16	Nicholas Poloniato ( CAN)	–	–	14	9	7	–	9	7	752
17	Aleksandr Bredikhin ( RUS)	12	8	12	13	21	–	16	26	730
18	Ralfs Berzins ( LAT)	7	7	10	–	16	–	19	25	690
19	Brad Hall ( GBR)	–	–	15	9	8	6	–	–	592
20	Benjamin Maier ( AUT)	3	9	18	21	–	–	–	20	562
21	Christoph Hafer ( GER)	7	3	–	–	6	–	–	–	544
22	Rudy Rinaldi ( MON)	–	–	–	19	13	8	13	–	474
23	Timo Rohner ( SUI)	–	–	–	17	22	18	23	24	319
24	Suk Young-jin ( KOR)	–	–	–	–	20	20	15	21	302
25	Dmitriy Popov ( RUS)	–	–	–	21	24	12	22	–	291
26	Alexander Kasjanov ( RUS)	13	13	–	–	–	–	–	–	240
27	Pius Meyerhans ( SUI)	15	15	–	–	–	–	–	–	208
28	Dražen Silić ( CRO)	–	–	–	23	25	22	–	27	178
29	Chris Spring ( CAN)	–	–	–	–	–	–	6	–	176
30	Geoffrey Gadbois ( USA)	–	–	–	–	–	–	17	17	176

Four-man

Pos.	Racer	WIN 1	WIN 2	ALT	KON	IGL	STM	LPL	CGR	Points
1	Francesco Friedrich ( GER)	2	1	1	3	1	1	4	1	1727
2	Oskars Ķibermanis ( LAT)	4	4	2	2	2	3	2	4	1616
3	Johannes Lochner ( GER)	3	2	4	1	3	2	7	3	1605
4	Nico Walther ( GER)	1	3	3	7	7	6	5	2	1531
5	Maxim Andrianov ( RUS)	5	6	5	4	4	4	3	6	1496
6	Won Yun-jong ( KOR)	12	9	7	6	12	8	6	9	1240
7	Dominik Dvořák ( CZE)	7	8	6	12	5	DSQ	15	7	1088
8	Aleksandr Bredikhin ( RUS)	8	7	9	11	10	–	9	15	1016
9	Markus Treichl ( AUT)	10	10	8	10	8	12	–	13	1000
10	Ivo de Bruin ( NED)	14	11	14	8	15	11	17	12	976

Two-woman

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Pos.	Racer	SIG	WIN	ALT	KON	IGL	STM	LPL	CGR	Points
1	Mariama Jamanka ( GER)	1	2	1	1	2	3	4	1	1712
2	Stephanie Schneider ( GER)	8	1	6	3	1	2	3	3	1596
3	Elana Meyers Taylor ( USA)	DSQ	3	3	2	3	1	1	2	1470
4	Nadezhda Sergeeva ( RUS)	2	5	7	12	5	7	8	5	1386
5	Anna Köhler ( GER)	3	4	5	7	4	4	6	–	1304
6	Brittany Reinbolt ( USA)	5	11	11	14	7	11	5	5	1240
7	An Vannieuwenhuyse ( BEL)	6	8	8	8	12	8	10	13	1208
8	Katrin Beierl ( AUT)	7	6	9	4	6	DSQ	–	4	1056
9	Mica McNeill ( GBR)	–	7	4	6	11	5	9	–	1008
10	Martine Fontanive ( SUI)	DNS	10	12	10	9	9	12	11	984

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	21	9	14	44
2	United States	2	2	3	7
3	Canada	1	5	1	7
4	Latvia	0	6	4	10
5	Russia	0	1	1	2
6	France	0	1	0	1
7	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		24	24	24	72

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