2016–17 Bobsleigh World Cup Explained

The 2016–17 Bobsleigh World Cup was a multi-race series over a season for bobsleigh. The season started on 28 November 2016 in Whistler, Canada and ended on 19 March 2017 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The World Cup was organised by the IBSF (formerly the FIBT) who also run World Cups and Championships in skeleton. The season was sponsored by BMW.

Calendar

Below is the schedule of the 2016/17 season.^[1]

Venue	Date	Details
Whistler	2–3 December 2016
Lake Placid	16–17 December 2016
Altenberg	6–8 January 2017
Winterberg	13–15 January 2017
St. Moritz	20–22 January 2017
Königssee	27–29 January 2017
Igls	3–5 February 2017
Pyeongchang	17–19 March 2017

Results

Two-man

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Whistler	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	1:44.21 (51.92 / 52.29)	Rico Peter Thomas Amrhein	1:44.67 (52.21 / 52.46)	Won Yun-jong Seo Young-woo	1:44.69 (51.96 / 52.73)
Lake Placid	Steven Holcomb Samuel McGuffie	1:49.47 (54.66 / 54.81)	Justin Kripps Jesse Lumsden	1:49.74 (54.87 / 54.87)	Chris Spring Lascelles Brown	1:49.75 (54.80 / 54.95)
Altenberg	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp	1:49.20 (54.48 / 54.72)	Alexander Kasjanov Aleksei Pushkarev	1:49.84 (54.77 / 55.07)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis	1:49.90 (54.93 / 54.97)
Winterberg	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp	1:51.67 (55.86 / 55.81)	Johannes Lochner Joshua Bluhm	1:52.38 (56.22 / 56.16)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis	1:52.44 (56.29 / 56.15)
St. Moritz	Johannes Lochner Christian Rasp	2:10.63 (1:05.40 / 1:05.23)	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp	2:10.91 (1:05.69 / 1:05.22)	Steven Holcomb Carlo Valdes	2:11.30 (1:05.85 / 1:05.45)
Königssee	Johannes Lochner Joshua Bluhm	1:38.54 (49.12 / 49.42)	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis Steven Holcomb Carlo Valdes	1:38.77 (49.26 / 49.51) 1:38.77 (49.21 / 49.56)
Igls	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	1:42.92 (51.25 / 51.67)	Oskars Melbārdis Jānis Strenga	1:43.65 (51.58 / 52.07)	Benjamin Maier Thomas Sammer	1:43.72 (51.64 / 52.08)
Pyeongchang	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	1:40.82 (50.24 / 50.58)	Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis	1:41.12 (50.46 / 50.66)	Johannes Lochner Joshua Bluhm	1:41.16 (50.66 / 50.50)

Four-man

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Whistler	Alexander Kasjanov Alexey Zaitsev Aleksei Pushkarev Maxim Belugin	1:42.51 (51.17 / 51.34)	Rico Peter Bror van der Zijde Simon Friedli Thomas Amrhein	1:42.71 (51.28 / 51.43)	Johannes Lochner Matthias Kagerhuber Sebastian Mrowka Christian Rasp	1:42.94 (51.52 / 51.42)
Lake Placid	Rico Peter Bror van der Zijde Simon Friedli Thomas Amrhein	1:48.31 (54.11 / 54.20)	Steven Holcomb Carlo Valdes James Reed Samuel McGuffie	1:48.70 (54.22 / 54.48)	Chris Spring Cameron Stones Lascelles Brown Samuel Giguère	1:48.71 (54.25 / 54.46)
Altenberg	Johannes Lochner Sebastian Mrowka Joshua Bluhm Christian Rasp	1:48.73 (54.28 / 54.45)	Alexander Kasjanov Alexey Zaitsev Aleksei Pushkarev Maxim Belugin	1:49.14 (54.55 / 54.59)	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis	1:49.40 (54.52 / 54.88)
Winterberg	Johannes Lochner Sebastian Mrowka Joshua Bluhm Christian Rasp	1:48.95 (54.50 / 54.45)	Nico Walther Kevin Kuske Kevin Korona Eric Franke	1:49.40 (54.63 / 54.77)	Benjamin Maier Stefan Laussegger Markus Sammer Daniel Moldovan	1:49.42 (54.72 / 54.70)
St. Moritz	Oskars Ķibermanis Jānis Jansons Matīss Miknis Raivis Zīrups	2:08.60 (1:04.55 / 1:04.05)	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga	2:08.73 (1:04.56 / 1:04.17)	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis	2:08.90 (1:04.73 / 1:04.17)
Königssee	Johannes Lochner Matthias Kagerhuber Joshua Bluhm Christian Rasp	1:37.17 (48.45 / 48.72)	Nico Walther Kevin Kuske Kevin Korona Eric Franke	1:37.42 (48.59 / 48.83)	Alexey Stulnev Ilvir Huzin Maxim Belugin Roman Koshelev	1:37.49 (48.63 / 48.86)
Igls	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga	1:42.01 (50.88 / 51.13)	Rico Peter Simon Friedli Alex Baumann Thomas Amrhein	1:42.06 (50.98 / 51.08)	Steven Holcomb Carlo Valdes James Reed Samuel McGuffie	1:42.07 (50.95 / 51.12)
Pyeongchang	Alexander Kasjanov Aleksei Pushkarev Vasiliy Kondratenko Alexey Zaitsev	1:39.96 (49.99 / 49.97)	Rico Peter Bror van der Zijde Alex Baumann Thomas Amrhein	1:40.19 (50.15 / 50.04)	Oskars Ķibermanis Jānis Jansons Matīss Miknis Raivis Zīrups	1:40.22 (50.07 / 50.15)

Two-woman

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Whistler	Kaillie Humphries Cynthia Appiah	1:46.53 (53.19 / 53.34)	Christina Hengster Sanne Dekker	1:46.77 (53.37 / 53.40)	Jamie Greubel Poser Lauren Gibbs	1:46.86 (53.31 / 53.55)
Lake Placid	Jamie Greubel Poser Aja Evans	1:52.02 (55.81 / 56.21)	Elana Meyers Taylor Lolo Jones	1:52.16 (55.95 / 56.21)	Kaillie Humphries Cynthia Appiah	1:53.05 (56.40 / 56.65)
Altenberg	Kaillie Humphries Melissa Lotholz	1:54.15 (57.10 / 57.05)	Elana Meyers Taylor Kehri Jones	1:54.85 (57.24 / 57.61)	Christina Hengster Sanne Dekker	1:54.93 (57.38 / 57.55)
Winterberg	Elana Meyers Taylor Kehri Jones	1:54.43 (57.30 / 57.13)	Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek	1:54.50 (57.24 / 57.26)	Jamie Greubel Poser Aja Evans	1:54.67 (57.29 / 57.38)
St. Moritz	Elana Meyers Taylor Briauna Jones	2:16.14 (1:08.41 / 1:07.73)	Kaillie Humphries Melissa Lotholz	2:16.15 (1:08.35 / 1:07.80)	Jamie Greubel Poser Lauren Gibbs	2:16.29 (1:08.38 / 1:07.91)
Königssee	Elana Meyers Taylor Kehri Jones	1:41.01 (50.36 / 50.65)	Jamie Greubel Poser Aja Evans	1:41.27 (50.49 / 50.78)	Mariama Jamanka Annika Drazek	1:41.67 (50.61 / 51.06)
Igls	Elana Meyers Taylor Lolo Jones	1:46.14 (53.01 / 53.13)	Kaillie Humphries Melissa Lotholz	1:46.39 (53.19 / 53.20)	Jamie Greubel Poser Aja Evans	1:46.53 (53.20 / 53.33)
Pyeongchang	Jamie Greubel Poser Aja Evans	1:43.65 (51.79 / 51.86)	Elana Meyers Taylor Lolo Jones	1:43.80 (51.71 / 52.09)	Alysia Rissling Cynthia Appiah	1:44.06 (52.10 / 51.96)

Standings

Two-man

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Pos.	Racer	WHI	LPL	ALT	WIN	STM	KON	IGL	PYE	Points
1		1	–	1	1	2	2	1	1	1545
2		11	1	8	10	3	2	10	14	1331
3		3	4	5	8	8	16	11	5	1312
4		4	–	11	2	1	1	16	3	1284
5		9	5	2	9	9	10	6	16	1266
6		8	9	7	4	11	4	17	13	1208
7		17	12	4	7	7	7	3	25	1152
8		–	–	3	3	5	5	8	2	1138
9		4	2	14	18	21	11	5	8	1136
10		2	6	10	5	15	12	19	23	1070
11		15	–	6	13	4	13	15	11	952
12		–	–	9	5	10	9	9	9	936
13		10	3	–	23	14	15	13	7	898
14		6	7	12	16	16	19	20	21	868
15		7	8	–	17	23	29	4	6	858
16		–	–	13	–	6	6	2	12	810
17		12	10	17	19	28	20	21	10	736
18		14	13	–	22	19	24	18	4	679
19		19	–	dsq	12	13	8	12	20	678
20		13	11	15	15	24	18	26	24	670
21		15	14	–	–	16	14	13	22	600
22		–	–	18	21	18	–	6	15	502
23		–	–	16	11	20	26	22	18	472
24		–	–	–	14	11	16	–	16	440
25		20	17	–	25	25	22	23	28	370
26		18	15	21	24	27	–	–	–	323
27		–	–	20	20	22	24	–	dns	237
28		21	16	–	–	–	21	–	–	220
29		–	–	19	26	26	23	29	31	220
30		23	19	–	–	–	–	–	25	164
31		22	18	–	–	–	–	–	29	160
32		–	–	–	–	–	27	24	19	151
33		–	–	22	–	29	28	31	30	128
34		–	–	23	27	30	30	32	–	122
35		–	–	–	–	–	–	28	27	60
36		–	–	–	–	–	–	25	–	40
37		–	–	–	–	–	–	27	–	32
38		–	–	–	–	–	–	29	–	24

Four-man

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Pos.	Racer	WHI	LPL	ALT	WIN	STM	KON	IGL	PYE	Points
1		1	8	2	4	8	6	9	1	1500
2		2	1	5	14	5	11	2	2	1471
3		4	2	9	7	15	4	3	10	1362
4		8	7	8	5	9	3	5	19	1282
5		10	–	6	2	7	2	6	5	1268
6		3	–	1	1	4	1	dsq	6	1243
7		12	–	3	5	3	5	4	11	1224
8		13	10	4	3	11	9	14	16	1152
9		7	16	10	8	10	8	11	12	1136
10		5	9	14	9	16	16	7	9	1112
11		–	–	7	10	1	14	8	3	1009
12		9	6	12	12	14	17	20	18	932
13		–	–	11	–	2	7	1	4	931
14		6	3	–	21	6	19	16	13	904
15		–	5	–	11	22	18	12	7	752
16		15	4	15	13	30	21	25	20	710
17		14	11	–	–	12	13	–	14	608
18		–	–	17	17	23	10	14	17	570
19		–	12	–	18	19	26	21	15	484
20		11	dnf	–	19	17	23	22	25	444
21		–	–	–	–	–	12	18	8	368
22		–	–	–	–	13	15	10	–	368
23		–	–	18	15	18	–	17	–	352
24		19	15	–	24	23	27	27	–	337
25		–	–	13	16	26	25	–	dns	292
26		–	–	–	–	20	20	23	22	242
27		–	–	19	22	27	–	19	–	236
28		16	14	–	–	–	–	–	–	208
29		–	–	16	20	29	–	–	–	188
30		–	–	20	25	28	dsq	26	–	172
31		–	–	–	26	23	22	–	–	142
32		–	–	–	–	–	-	12	–	128
33		–	13	–	–	–	–	–	–	120
34		–	–	–	23	21	–	–	–	112
35		–	–	–	–	–	24	–	21	107
36		17	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	88
37		18	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	80
38		–	–	–	–	-	-	28	23	78
39		–	dns	–	27	32	–	29	–	56
40		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	24	45
41		–	-	–	-	-	–	24	–	45
42		–	–	–	–	31	28	–	–	28
43		–	–	–	–	-	-	30	–	20
44		–	–	–	–	-	-	31	–	0

Two-woman

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Pos.	Racer	WHI	LPL	ALT	WIN	STM	KON	IGL	PYE	Points
1		3	1	5	3	3	2	3	1	1644
2		1	3	1	5	2	4	2	5	1630
3		dsq	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	1530
4		2	6	3	6	5	8	8	12	1394
5		5	9	9	4	6	5	10	6	1360
6		6	7	7	7	10	7	7	13	1280
7		11	–	10	2	4	3	5	4	1258
8		4	5	–	11	–	9	9	3	1016
9		7	4	–	13	14	15	6	11	1008
10		–	–	6	8	9	6	14	14	888
11		–	–	4	12	11	11	17	8	840
12		13	13	8	14	15	–	20	22	740
13		8	14	dsq	10	7	–	12	–	712
14		–	–	12	15	12	10	15	16	704
15		–	–	11	8	7	12	–	15	696
16		12	8	–	18	–	16	11	17	688
17		–	11	–	16	16	–	13	9	600
18		–	–	–	–	–	13	4	7	480
19		–	–	–	–	13	13	16	10	480
20		9	10	–	–	–	–	–	18	376
21		–	–	13	19	19	18	–	–	348
22		10	12	–	–	–	–	–	20	340
23		–	–	–	–	17	19	21	19	298
24		–	–	–	–	20	17	19	21	292
25		–	–	–	17	18	dsq	22	–	224
26		–	–	–	–	–	–	18	–	80

External links

• IBSF

Notes and References

1. Web site: FIBT Viessmann World Cup Tour 2016/2017 . FIBT . 6 July 2016 .
2. Web site: Rankings List . Fibt.com . 2015-05-31.
3. Web site: Rankings List . Fibt.com . 2015-05-31.
4. Web site: Rankings List . Fibt.com . 2015-05-31.