Two-woman at the IBSF World Championships 2020 | ||||||||||
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Venue | Altenberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track | |||||||||
Location | Altenberg, Germany | |||||||||
Dates | 21–22 February | |||||||||
Competitors | 40 from 13 nations | |||||||||
Teams | 20 | |||||||||
Winning time | 3:45.49 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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IBSF World Championships 2020 | |||
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Skeleton | men | women | Mixed |
The Two-woman competition at the IBSF World Championships 2020 was held on 21 and 22 February 2020. [1] [2]
The first two runs were started on 21 February at 14:04. [3] The last two runs were held on 22 February at 15:30. [4]
Rank | Bib | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Run 3 | Rank | Run 4 | Rank | Total | Behind | ||
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5 | United States | Kaillie Humphries Lauren Gibbs | 56.47 | 1 | 56.33 | 1 | 56.27 | 2 | 56.42 | 1 | 3:45.49 | ||||
18 | Germany | Kim Kalicki Kira Lipperheide | 56.56 | 3 | 56.45 | 2 | 56.25 | 1 | 56.60 | 4 | 3:45.86 | +0.37 | |||
7 | Canada | Christine de Bruin Kristen Bujnowski | 56.60 | 4 | 56.87 | 5 | 56.47 | 3 | 56.61 | 5 | 3:46.55 | +1.06 | |||
4 | 6 | Germany | Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek | 56.86 | 7 | 56.58 | 3 | 56.48 | 4 | 56.77 | 8 | 3:46.69 | +1.20 | ||
5 | 4 | Germany | Stephanie Schneider Leonie Fiebig | 56.50 | 2 | 56.84 | 4 | 56.84 | 8 | 56.74 | 6 | 3:46.92 | +1.43 | ||
6 | 8 | Russia | Nadezhda Sergeeva Elena Mamedova | 56.80 | 5 | 57.09 | 10 | 56.77 | 7 | 56.57 | 2 | 3:47.23 | +1.74 | ||
7 | 11 | Switzerland | Martina Fontanive Nadja Pasternack | 57.20 | 12 | 56.90 | 6 | 56.62 | 6 | 56.57 | 2 | 3:47.29 | +1.80 | ||
8 | 15 | Great Britain | Mica McNeill Montell Douglas | 56.83 | 6 | 56.99 | 7 | 56.56 | 5 | 57.16 | 11 | 3:47.54 | +2.05 | ||
9 | 10 | Austria | Katrin Beierl Jennifer Onasanya | 57.00 | 8 | 57.04 | 9 | 56.96 | 9 | 56.76 | 7 | 3:47.76 | +2.27 | ||
10 | 1 | China | Ying Qing Du Jiani | 57.07 | 10 | 57.09 | 10 | 57.13 | 11 | 57.01 | 9 | 3:48.30 | +2.81 | ||
11 | 13 | Belgium | An Vannieuwenhuyse Kelly Van Petegem | 57.16 | 11 | 57.09 | 10 | 57.20 | 12 | 57.06 | 10 | 3:48.51 | +3.02 | ||
12 | 14 | China | Huai Mingming Lu Chunyang | 57.29 | 13 | 57.01 | 8 | 57.10 | 10 | 57.17 | 12 | 3:48.57 | +3.08 | ||
13 | 2 | Russia | Lyubov Chernykh Anna Parfenova | 57.50 | 14 | 57.22 | 13 | 57.37 | 13 | 57.18 | 13 | 3:49.27 | +3.78 | ||
14 | 17 | Australia | Breeana Walker Stefanie Preiksa | 57.68 | 15 | 57.96 | 14 | 57.56 | 14 | 57.42 | 14 | 3:50.62 | +5.13 | ||
15 | 16 | Switzerland | Melanie Hasler Jasmin Näf | 57.71 | 16 | 58.15 | 15 | 57.68 | 15 | 57.65 | 15 | 3:51.19 | +5.70 | ||
16 | 20 | Poland | Sylwia Smolarek Aleksandra Byczkowska | 59.35 | 18 | 58.65 | 16 | 58.37 | 16 | 58.02 | 16 | 3:54.39 | +8.90 | ||
— | 9 | Germany | Laura Nolte Ann-Christin Strack | 57.04 | 9 | 1:05.52 | 17 | Did not start | |||||||
19 | Italy | Giada Andreutti Silvia Taini | 58.71 | 17 | Disqualified | ||||||||||
3 | Italy | Tania Vicenzino Lucrezia Tavella | 1:01.28 | 19 | Did not start | ||||||||||
12 | Romania | Andreea Grecu Ioana Gheorghe | 1:02.26 | 20 |
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