The Men's two-man bobsleigh competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 18 and 19 February, at Cesana Pariol.
Records While the IOC does not consider bobsled times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.
Prior to this competition, the existing Cesana Pariol track records were as follows.
Type Date Team Time Start 22 January 2005 Pierre LuedersLascelles Brown 4.77 Run 22 January 2005 Martin AnnenBeat Hefti 56.55
The following track records were established during this event.
Type Date Run Team Time Start 18 February 1 Alexandre ZoubkovAlexey Voevoda 4.76 Run 18 February 1 Martin AnnenBeat Hefti 55.54 18 February 1 Alexandre ZoubkovAlexey Voevoda 55.54 18 February 1 André LangeKevin Kuske 55.28
The Russian team of Zubkov and Voevoda equalled the track record set just two sleds earlier by Annen and Hefti, but this tie was short-lived; Lange and Kuske, the next team down, broke it by 0.26 seconds.
Results
Each of the 29 two-man teams entered for the event completed the first three runs, and the top 20 qualified for the final run. The total time for all four runs was used to determine the final ranking.
Rank Country Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total André Lange Kevin Kuske 55.28 55.73 56.01 56.36 3:43.38 Pierre Lueders Lascelles Brown 55.57 55.50 56.11 56.41 3:43.59 Martin Annen Beat Hefti 55.54 55.67 56.18 56.34 3:43.73 4 Alexandre Zoubkov Alexey Voevoda 55.54 55.85 56.12 56.49 3:44.00 5 Matthias Hoepfner Marc Kuehne 55.56 55.82 56.24 56.63 3:44.25 6 Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens 55.94 55.84 56.16 56.69 3:44.63 7 Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic 55.81 55.72 56.31 56.88 3:44.72 8 Ivo Rueegg Cedric Grand 55.85 55.74 56.37 56.90 3:44.86 9 Simone Bertazzo Matteo Torchio 55.78 55.99 56.43 56.95 3:45.15 10 Wolfgang Stampfer Klaus Seelos 55.92 55.94 56.57 56.90 3:45.33 11 Serge Despres David Bissett 56.13 55.92 56.69 56.93 3:45.67 12 Patrice Servelle Jérémy Bottin 56.21 56.13 56.67 57.08 3:46.09 13 Fabrizio Tosini Samuele Romanini 56.06 56.02 56.93 57.10 3:46.11 14 Steve Holcomb Bill Schuffenhauer 56.16 55.96 57.05 57.04 3:46.21 15 Lee Johnston Dan Humphries 56.22 55.84 57.20 57.08 3:46.34 16 Ivo Danilevic Roman Gomola 56.40 56.24 56.99 57.12 3:46.75 17 Juergen Loacker Gerhard Koehler 56.29 56.22 57.07 57.69 3:47.27 18 Yevgeni Popov Roman Oreshnikov 56.56 56.50 56.98 57.29 3:47.33 19 Arend Glas Sybren Jansma 56.70 56.54 56.95 57.17 3:47.36 20 Gatis Guts Intars Dicmanis 56.37 56.36 57.05 57.73 3:47.51 21 Bruno Mingeon Stephane Galbert 56.49 56.75 57.11 — — 22 Jeremy Rollestone Shane McKenzie 56.77 56.59 57.22 — — 23 Alan Henderson Matthew Dallow 56.61 56.79 57.46 — — 24 Nicolae Istrate Adrian Duminicel 56.82 56.90 57.65 — — 25 Milan Jagnesak Viktor Rájek 56.81 57.12 57.81 — — 26 Mihai Iliescu Levente Andrei Bartha 57.22 57.09 57.63 — — 27 Suguru Kiyokawa Ryuichi Kobayashi 57.27 57.02 57.90 — — 28 Milos Vesely Jan Kobian 56.93 57.49 58.28 — — 29 Marton Gyulai Bertalan Pinter 57.25 57.36 58.40 — —
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