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| Venue | Cesana Pariol | ||||||||||||
| Dates | February 18 — 19, 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 58 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:43.38 | ||||||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Four | men | |
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. [1]
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 [2] | Date | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 22 January 2005 |  Canada Pierre Lueders Lascelles Brown | 4.77 |
| Run | 22 January 2005 |  Switzerland Martin Annen Beat Hefti | 56.55 |
The following track records were established during this event.
| Type [2] | Date | Run | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 18 February | 1 |  Russia (RUS-1)Alexandre Zoubkov Alexey Voevoda | 4.76 |
| Run | 18 February | 1 |  Switzerland (SUI-1)Martin Annen Beat Hefti | 55.54 |
| 18 February | 1 | Russia (RUS-1) Alexandre Zoubkov Alexey Voevoda | 55.54 | |
| 18 February | 1 |  Germany (GER-1)André Lange Kevin 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. [2]
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. [2]
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Germany (GER-1) | André Lange Kevin Kuske | 55.28 | 55.73 | 56.01 | 56.36 | 3:43.38 |
 | Canada (CAN-1) | Pierre Lueders Lascelles Brown | 55.57 | 55.50 | 56.11 | 56.41 | 3:43.59 |
 | Switzerland (SUI-1) | Martin Annen Beat Hefti | 55.54 | 55.67 | 56.18 | 56.34 | 3:43.73 |
| 4 | Russia (RUS-1) | Alexandre Zoubkov Alexey Voevoda | 55.54 | 55.85 | 56.12 | 56.49 | 3:44.00 |
| 5 | Germany (GER-2) | Matthias Hoepfner Marc Kuehne | 55.56 | 55.82 | 56.24 | 56.63 | 3:44.25 |
| 6 |  Latvia (LAT-1) | Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens | 55.94 | 55.84 | 56.16 | 56.69 | 3:44.63 |
| 7 |  United States (USA-1) | Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic | 55.81 | 55.72 | 56.31 | 56.88 | 3:44.72 |
| 8 | Switzerland (SUI-2) | Ivo Rueegg Cedric Grand | 55.85 | 55.74 | 56.37 | 56.90 | 3:44.86 |
| 9 |  Italy (ITA-1) | Simone Bertazzo Matteo Torchio | 55.78 | 55.99 | 56.43 | 56.95 | 3:45.15 |
| 10 |  Austria (AUT-1) | Wolfgang Stampfer Klaus Seelos | 55.92 | 55.94 | 56.57 | 56.90 | 3:45.33 |
| 11 | Canada (CAN-2) | Serge Despres David Bissett | 56.13 | 55.92 | 56.69 | 56.93 | 3:45.67 |
| 12 |  Monaco | Patrice Servelle Jérémy Bottin | 56.21 | 56.13 | 56.67 | 57.08 | 3:46.09 |
| 13 | Italy (ITA-2) | Fabrizio Tosini Samuele Romanini | 56.06 | 56.02 | 56.93 | 57.10 | 3:46.11 |
| 14 | United States (USA-2) | Steve Holcomb Bill Schuffenhauer | 56.16 | 55.96 | 57.05 | 57.04 | 3:46.21 |
| 15 |  Great Britain | Lee Johnston Dan Humphries | 56.22 | 55.84 | 57.20 | 57.08 | 3:46.34 |
| 16 |  Czech Republic (CZE-1) | Ivo Danilevic Roman Gomola | 56.40 | 56.24 | 56.99 | 57.12 | 3:46.75 |
| 17 | Austria (AUT-2) | Juergen Loacker Gerhard Koehler | 56.29 | 56.22 | 57.07 | 57.69 | 3:47.27 |
| 18 | Russia (RUS-2) | Yevgeni Popov Roman Oreshnikov | 56.56 | 56.50 | 56.98 | 57.29 | 3:47.33 |
| 19 |  Netherlands | Arend Glas Sybren Jansma | 56.70 | 56.54 | 56.95 | 57.17 | 3:47.36 |
| 20 | Latvia (LAT-2) | Gatis Guts Intars Dicmanis | 56.37 | 56.36 | 57.05 | 57.73 | 3:47.51 |
| 21 |  France | Bruno Mingeon Stephane Galbert | 56.49 | 56.75 | 57.11 | — | — |
| 22 |  Australia | Jeremy Rollestone Shane McKenzie | 56.77 | 56.59 | 57.22 | — | — |
| 23 |  New Zealand | Alan Henderson Matthew Dallow | 56.61 | 56.79 | 57.46 | — | — |
| 24 |  Romania (ROM-1) | Nicolae Istrate Adrian Duminicel | 56.82 | 56.90 | 57.65 | — | — |
| 25 |  Slovakia | Milan Jagnesak Viktor Rájek | 56.81 | 57.12 | 57.81 | — | — |
| 26 | Romania (ROM-2) | Mihai Iliescu Levente Andrei Bartha | 57.22 | 57.09 | 57.63 | — | — |
| 27 |  Japan | Suguru Kiyokawa Ryuichi Kobayashi | 57.27 | 57.02 | 57.90 | — | — |
| 28 | Czech Republic (CZE-2) | Milos Vesely Jan Kobian | 56.93 | 57.49 | 58.28 | — | — |
| 29 |  Hungary | Marton Gyulai Bertalan Pinter | 57.25 | 57.36 | 58.40 | — | — |
