| Boys' monobob at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track | ||||||||||||
| Date | 20 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 15 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:54.29 | ||||||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics | ||
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The boys' monobob competition of the bobsleigh events at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track, on 20 February. 15 athletes from 15 different countries took part in this event. [1]
The race was started at 14:00. [2]
| Rank | Start No. | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
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 | 5 | Jonas Jannusch |  Germany | 57.15 | 2 | 57.14 | 2 | 1:54.29 | |
 | 10 | Maksim Ivanov |  Russia | 56.93 | 1 | 57.51 | 5 | 1:54.44 | +0.15 |
 | 11 | Kristian Olsen |  Norway | 57.43 | 5 | 57.10 | 1 | 1:54.53 | +0.24 |
| 4 | 4 | Mihai Cristian Tentea |  Romania | 57.42 | 4 | 57.20 | 3 | 1:54.62 | +0.33 |
| 5 | 13 | Marius Schneider |  Switzerland | 57.53 | 6 | 57.47 | 4 | 1:55.00 | +0.71 |
| 6 | 15 | George Johnston |  Great Britain | 57.31 | 3 | 58.17 | 9 | 1:55.48 | +1.19 |
| 7 | 8 | Gabriel Ospelt |  Liechtenstein | 57.84 | 7 | 57.76 | 6 | 1:55.60 | +1.31 |
| 8 | 7 | Marley Linhares |  Brazil | 57.86 | 8 | 58.00 | 7 | 1:55.86 | +1.57 |
| 9 | 9 | Leonhard Pichler |  Austria | 58.13 | 10 | 58.22 | 10 | 1:56.35 | +2.06 |
| 10 | 6 | Jakub Čiernik |  Slovakia | 58.37 | 12 | 58.14 | 8 | 1:56.51 | +2.22 |
| 11 | 12 | Kim Sang-min |  South Korea | 58.02 | 9 | 58.53 | 12 | 1:56.55 | +2.26 |
| 12 | 2 | Parker Reid |  Canada | 58.29 | 11 | 58.51 | 11 | 1:56.80 | +2.51 |
| 13 | 14 | Daniel Mayhew |  Jamaica | 58.85 | 13 | 58.62 | 13 | 1:57.47 | +3.18 |
| 14 | 3 | Samuel Beach |  United States | 59.02 | 14 | 59.32 | 15 | 1:58.34 | +4.05 |
| 15 | 1 | Martin Souto Otero |  Spain | 59.31 | 15 | 59.08 | 14 | 1:58.39 | +4.10 |
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Youth Olympic champions in Bobsleigh – two-boy / boys' monobob | |
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