Two-boys at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
Date | January 22 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 20 from 10 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:49.14 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Bobsleigh at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics | ||
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boys | girls | |
The Two-boys competition of the bobsleigh events at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, was held on January 22, at the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck. 20 athletes from 10 different countries took part in this event. [1]
The runs was started at 11:30. [2]
Rank | Bib | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Behind |
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1 | Italy | Patrick Baumgartner Alessandro Grande | 54.31 | 54.83 | 1:49.14 | – | |
3 | Austria | Benjamin Maier Robert Ofensberger | 54.63 | 54.60 | 1:49.23 | +0.09 | |
2 | Monaco | Rudy Rinaldi Jérémy Torre | 54.66 | 54.65 | 1:49.31 | +0.17 | |
4 | 5 | Latvia | Oskars Ķibermanis Elvis Kamšs | 54.80 | 54.57 | 1:49.37 | +0.23 |
5 | 10 | Great Britain | Olly Biddulph James Lelliott | 54.54 | 54.87 | 1:49.41 | +0.27 |
6 | 4 | Germany | Philipp Mölter Richard Oelsner | 54.49 | 54.93 | 1:49.42 | +0.28 |
7 | 6 | United States | Codie Bascue Jake Peterson | 54.67 | 54.98 | 1:49.65 | +0.51 |
8 | 7 | Russia | Kirill Chigvintsev Ivan Tarasov | 54.95 | 55.00 | 1:49.95 | +0.81 |
9 | 9 | Canada | Payton Berezowski Clay Sparks | 55.28 | 55.26 | 1:50.54 | +1.40 |
10 | 8 | South Korea | Choi Jun-won Choi Min-seo | 55.81 | 55.43 | 1:51.24 | +2.10 |
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