2014–15 Bobsleigh World Cup

The 2014–15 Bobsleigh World Cup is a multi race tournament over a season for bobsleigh. The season started on 12 December 2014 in Lake Placid, United States and ended on 15 February 2015 in Sochi, Russia. The World Cup is organised by the FIBT who also run World Cups and Championships in skeleton.^[1]

2014–15 Bobsleigh World Cup

Winners
Combined men's	Oskars Melbardis
Two-man	Oskars Melbardis Daumants Dreiškens
Four-man	Oskars Melbardis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga
Two-woman	Elana Meyers Cherrelle Garrett
Competitions
Venues	8 (8 events)
← 2013/14 2015/16 →

Calendar

Below is the schedule of the 2014/15 season.^[2]

Venue	Date	Details
Lake Placid	12–13 December 2014
Calgary	19–20 December 2014
Altenberg	9–11 January 2015
Königssee	16–18 January 2015
St. Moritz	24–25 January 2015
La Plagne	30 January – 1 February 2015
Igls	6–8 February 2015
Sochi	14–15 February 2015

Results

Men's two bob

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Lake Placid[3]	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis  Germany	1:51.14	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens  Latvia	1:51.31	Nick Cunningham Casey Wickline  United States	1:51.40
Calgary[4]	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens  Latvia	1:49.60	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp  Germany	1:49.63	Beat Hefti Alex Baumann  Switzerland	1:49.66
Altenberg[5]	Beat Hefti Alex Baumann  Switzerland	1:53.17	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens  Latvia	1:53.25	Nico Walther Joshua Bluhm  Germany	1:53.41
Königssee[6]	Beat Hefti Alex Baumann  Switzerland	1:41.16	Nico Walther Marko Hübenbecker  Germany	1:41.68	Justin Kripps Bryan Barnett  Canada	1:42.19
St.Moritz[7]	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens  Latvia	2:12.23	Beat Hefti Alex Baumann  Switzerland Uģis Žaļims Intars Dambis  Latvia	2:12.40
La Plagne[8]	Francesco Friedrich Martin Grothkopp  Germany	1:58.48	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens  Latvia	1:58.52	Rico Peter Bror van der Zijde  Switzerland	1:58.69
Igls[9]	Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis  Germany	1:43.64	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens  Latvia	1:43.95	Beat Hefti Alex Baumann  Switzerland	1:44.26
Sochi[10]	Rico Peter Simon Friedli  Switzerland	1:52.33	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens  Latvia	1:52.46	Beat Hefti Alex Baumann  Switzerland	1:52.60

Men's four bob

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Lake Placid[11]	Maximilian Arndt Kevin Korona Joshua Bluhm Ben Heber  Germany	1:49.31	Alexander Kasjanov Maxim Mokrousov Ilvir Huzin Aleksei Pushkarev  Russia	1:49.32	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	1:49.35
Calgary[12]	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	1:47.84	Francesco Friedrich Jan Speer Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis  Germany	1:48.01	Maximilian Arndt Kevin Korona Joshua Bluhm Ben Heber  Germany	1:48.14
Altenberg[13]	Nico Walther Andreas Bredau Marko Hübenbecker Christian Poser  Germany	1:48.11	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	1:48.15	Rico Peter Bror van der Zijde Thomas Amrhein Simon Friedli  Switzerland	1:48.78
Königssee[14]	Maximilian Arndt Kevin Korona Alexander Roediger Ben Heber  Germany	1:37.72	Nico Walther Andreas Bredau Marko Hübenbecker Christian Poser  Germany	1:37.74	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	1:37.86
St.Moritz[15]	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	2:09.73	Francesco Friedrich Gregor Bermach Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis  Germany	2:09.91	Maximilian Arndt Jan Speer Alexander Roediger Martin Putze  Germany	2:10.11
La Plagne[16]	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	1:56.61	Alexander Kasjanov Ilvir Huzin Aleksei Pushkarev Aleksey Zaytsev  Russia	1:56.89	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis  Germany	1:57.13
Igls[17]	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	1:42.01	Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp Thorsten Margis  Germany	1:42.14	Nico Walther Marko Hübenbecker Andreas Bredau Christian Poser  Germany	1:42.31
Sochi[18]	Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Jānis Strenga  Latvia	1:50.03	Alexander Kasjanov Ilvir Huzin Aleksei Pushkarev Aleksey Zaytsev  Russia	1:50.05	Maximilian Arndt Alexander Roediger Ben Heber Martin Putze  Germany	1:50.67

Women's two bob

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Lake Placid[19]	Elana Meyers Cherrelle Garrett  United States	1:52.68	Jazmine Fenlator Natalie DeRatt  United States	1:53.80	Jamie Greubel Lauren Gibbs  United States	1:54.04
Calgary[20]	Elana Meyers Cherrelle Garrett  United States	1:51.76	Anja Schneiderheinze Franziska Bertels  Germany	1:52.21	Kaillie Humphries Kate O'Brien  Canada	1:52.65
Altenberg[21]	Elana Meyers Cherrelle Garrett  United States	1:55.38	Elfje Willemsen Annelies Holthof  Belgium	1:55.49	Kaillie Humphries Melissa Lotholz  Canada	1:55.73
Königssee[22]	Cathleen Martini Lisa Marie Buckwitz  Germany	1:41.88	Elfje Willemsen Annelies Holthof  Belgium	1:41.92	Anja Schneiderheinze Annika Drazek  Germany	1:41.96
St.Moritz[23]	Anja Schneiderheinze Annika Drazek  Germany	2:15.29	Cathleen Martini Franziska Bertels  Germany	2:15.60	Jamie Greubel Cherrelle Garrett  United States	2:15.86
La Plagne[24]	Elana Meyers Cherrelle Garrett  United States	2:01.93	Jamie Greubel Lauryn Williams  United States	2:02.17	Kaillie Humphries Melissa Lotholz  Canada	2:02.44
Igls[25]	Elana Meyers Lauryn Williams  United States	1:46.48	Anja Schneiderheinze Annika Drazek  Germany	1:46.55	Jamie Greubel Cherrelle Garrett  United States	1:47.45
Sochi[26]	Elana Meyers Lauryn Williams  United States	1:55.48	Kaillie Humphries Melissa Lotholz  Canada	1:56.09	Jamie Greubel Lauren Gibbs  United States	1:56.10

Standings

2-men

Pos.	Bobsledder [27]	LKP	CAL	ALT	KON	STM	LPL	IGL	SOC	Points
1	Oskars Melbārdis (LAT)	2	1	2	5	1	2	2	2	1684
2	Beat Hefti (SUI)	4	3	1	1	2	5	3	3	1636
3	Rico Peter (SUI)	5	6	4	9	7	3	4	1	1449
4	Francesco Friedrich (GER)	1	2	5	7	4	1	1	–	1429
5	Nico Walther (GER)	11	7	3	2	8	7	4	10	1378
6	Steven Holcomb (USA)	6	8	13	10	6	8	6	5	1296
7	Alexander Kasjanov (RUS)	10	4	6	14	15	4	7	7	1256
8	Justin Kripps (CAN)	7	9	9	3	18	10	8	4	1248
9	Nick Cunningham (USA)	3	13	15	13	20	11	13	9	1020
10	Codie Bascue (USA)	13	11	7	15	13	16	16	11	976
11	Won Yun-jong (KOR)	8	5	–	8	14	6	10	–	936
12	Oskars Ķibermanis (LAT)	12	14	8	11	11	13	12	–	920
13	Alexey Stulnev (RUS)	18	15	14	6	9	–	15	6	904
14	Chris Spring (CAN)	14	12	16	12	16	17	14	14	872
15	Johannes Lochner (GER)	–	–	–	–	5	9	5	8	680
16	Maxim Andrianov (RUS)	–	–	10	22	–	18	17	13	488
17	Nikita Zakharov (RUS)	15	17	–	–	10	15	–	–	440
18	Maximilian Arndt (GER)	8	10	–	–	–	–	–	12	432
19	Kim Dong-hyun (KOR)	17	16	–	–	19	24	23	–	353
20	Uģis Žaļims (LAT)	–	–	–	–	2	–	11	–	346

4-men

Pos.	Bobsledder [28]	LKP	CAL	ALT	KON	STM	LPL	IGL	SOC	Points
1	Oskars Melbārdis (LAT)	3	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	1735
2	Alexander Kasjanov (RUS)	2	8	5	6	9	2	4	2	1494
3	Maximilian Arndt (GER)	1	3	DNF	1	3	5	6	3	1410
4	Nico Walther (GER)	DNF	5	1	2	4	4	3	6	1379
5	Francesco Friedrich (GER)	14	2	6	4	2	3	2	–	1310
6	Rico Peter (SUI)	7	9	3	7	11	6	5	15	1288
7	Steven Holcomb (USA)	6	7	9	9	14	8	9	9	1224
8	Justin Kripps (CAN)	4	11	7	12	21	13	11	4	1134
9	Chris Spring (CAN)	10	10	10	14	16	12	13	10	1032
10	Oskars Ķibermanis (LAT)	10	DNF	4	5	7	7	8	–	1016
11	Nikita Zakharov (RUS)	8	4	–	–	6	11	9	5	1000
12	Nick Cunningham (USA)	5	12	16	13	15	19	15	7	978
13	Alexey Stulnev (RUS)	13	14	13	10	13	–	14	8	888
14	Codie Bascue (USA)	9	–	12	16	12	15	19	–	682
15	Lamin Deen (GBR)	12	5	–	11	23	–	7	–	666
16	Benjamin Maier (AUT)	–	–	15	8	8	9	17	–	664
17	Jan Vrba (CZE)	–	–	11	–	10	10	12	–	552
18	Kaillie Humphries (CAN)	–	15	-	18	19	20	24	14	483
19	Won Yun-jong (KOR)	–	13	-	20	16	18	21	–	426
20	Simone Bertazzo (ITA)	–	–	14	–	5	–	15	–	400

2-woman

Pos.	Bobsledder [29]	LKP	CAL	ALT	KON	STM	LPL	IGL	SOC	Points
1	Elana Meyers (USA)	1	1	1	6	4	1	1	1	1718
2	Kaillie Humphries (CAN)	5	3	3	5	7	3	6	2	1522
3	Jazmine Fenlator (USA)	2	4	9	4	8	4	4	5	1474
4	Elfje Willemsen (BEL)	6	6	2	2	5	8	9	4	1460
5	Anja Schneiderheinze (GER)	4	2	7	3	1	5	2	–	1389
6	Jamie Greubel (USA)	3	4	5	DNF	3	2	3	3	1386
7	Stefanie Szczurek (GER)	7	7	6	8	10	7	7	9	1304
8	Cathleen Martini (GER)	–	–	4	1	2	6	5	7	1155
9	Nadezhda Sergeeva (RUS)	10	10	13	12	13	11	13	8	1072
10	Mica McNeill (GBR)	9	9	12	11	12	–	10	–	840
11	Victoria Olaoye (GBR)	8	8	–	10	15	14	11	–	816
12	Christina Hengster (AUT)	–	–	10	7	9	9	8	–	776
13	Aleksandra Rodionova (RUS)	–	–	–	–	11	10	12	6	584
14	An Vannieuwenhuyse (BEL)	–	–	11	13	–	13	16	–	472
15	Marije van Huigenbosch (NED)	–	–	–	9	14	15	–	–	368
16	Maria Adela Constantin (ROU)	–	–	8	–	16	–	14	–	368
17	Edith Burkard (SUI)	–	–	–	–	6	12	–	–	304
18	Martina Fontanive (SUI)	–	–	–	–	17	–	15	–	192
19	Alysia Rissling (CAN)	–	11	–	–	–	–	–	–	136
20	Fabiana Santos (BRA)	11	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	136

References

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External links

• FIBT