Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Two-man


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.
TypeDateTeamTime
Start22 January 2005
Pierre Lueders
Lascelles Brown
4.77
Run22 January 2005
Martin Annen
Beat Hefti
56.55

The following track records were established during this event.
TypeDateRunTeamTime
Start18 February1
Alexandre Zoubkov
Alexey Voevoda
4.76
Run18 February1
Martin Annen
Beat Hefti
55.54
Run18 February1
Alexandre Zoubkov
Alexey Voevoda
55.54
Run18 February1
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.

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.
RankCountryAthletesRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
André Lange
Kevin Kuske
55.2855.7356.0156.363:43.38
Pierre Lueders
Lascelles Brown
55.5755.5056.1156.413:43.59
Martin Annen
Beat Hefti
55.5455.6756.1856.343:43.73
4Alexandre Zoubkov
Alexey Voevoda
55.5455.8556.1256.493:44.00
5Matthias Hoepfner
Marc Kuehne
55.5655.8256.2456.633:44.25
6Jānis Miņins
Daumants Dreiškens
55.9455.8456.1656.693:44.63
7Todd Hays
Pavle Jovanovic
55.8155.7256.3156.883:44.72
8Ivo Rueegg
Cedric Grand
55.8555.7456.3756.903:44.86
9Simone Bertazzo
Matteo Torchio
55.7855.9956.4356.953:45.15
10Wolfgang Stampfer
Klaus Seelos
55.9255.9456.5756.903:45.33
11Serge Despres
David Bissett
56.1355.9256.6956.933:45.67
12Patrice Servelle
Jérémy Bottin
56.2156.1356.6757.083:46.09
13Fabrizio Tosini
Samuele Romanini
56.0656.0256.9357.103:46.11
14Steve Holcomb
Bill Schuffenhauer
56.1655.9657.0557.043:46.21
15Lee Johnston
Dan Humphries
56.2255.8457.2057.083:46.34
16Ivo Danilevic
Roman Gomola
56.4056.2456.9957.123:46.75
17Juergen Loacker
Gerhard Koehler
56.2956.2257.0757.693:47.27
18Yevgeni Popov
Roman Oreshnikov
56.5656.5056.9857.293:47.33
19Arend Glas
Sybren Jansma
56.7056.5456.9557.173:47.36
20Gatis Guts
Intars Dicmanis
56.3756.3657.0557.733:47.51
21Bruno Mingeon
Stephane Galbert
56.4956.7557.11
22Jeremy Rollestone
Shane McKenzie
56.7756.5957.22
23Alan Henderson
Matthew Dallow
56.6156.7957.46
24Nicolae Istrate
Adrian Duminicel
56.8256.9057.65
25Milan Jagnesak
Viktor Rájek
56.8157.1257.81
26Mihai Iliescu
Levente Andrei Bartha
57.2257.0957.63
27Suguru Kiyokawa
Ryuichi Kobayashi
57.2757.0257.90
28Milos Vesely
Jan Kobian
56.9357.4958.28
29Marton Gyulai
Bertalan Pinter
57.2557.3658.40