Kripps takes Lake Placid bobsled gold

BySportsbeat

Published 14/12/2019 at 18:47 GMT

Justin Kripps stayed on the podium for a second week in Lake Placid with a gold medal in Saturday's season-opening four-man bobsled World Cup race.

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Kripps, Ryan Sommer, Cameron Stones and Ben Coakwell finished two runs in one minute 49.50 seconds to beat Latvia's sled driven by Oskars Kibermanis (1:49.89) and Austria's Benjamin Maier (1:49.97).

Last weekend Kripps and Stones also collected bronze in the two-man event and maintained that promising form.

Francesco Friedrich was fourth on Saturday, only the second time in the past 17 World Cup four-man races that Germany failed to reach the medal podium with the other occurring last year, also at Mount van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid.

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