Extended Start List Two Man Bob, run 1 Bib Name Nation Push athletes team Ergebnisse/Results 1 WALTHER, Nico GER Marko Hübenbecker Two-man 07.06.1990 - Freital Eric Franke OWG: - 187 cm - 95 kg Christian Poser WCh 2015: 10th JWCh 2014: Gold ECh 2016: Silver Overall WCup 2014-2015: 5 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 2 Four-man OWG: - WCh 2015: Silver was 2009 and 2010 Junior World ECh 2015: 4th Champion in luge (Doubles) Overall WCup 2014-2015: 4 Childhood hero: German soccer Overall WCup 2015-2016: 4 goalkeeper Oliver Kahn Star-Wars-Fan 2 MELBARDIS, Oskars LAT Daumants Dreiskens Two-man 16.02.1988 - Valmiera Arvis Vilkaste OWG 2014: 5th 190 cm - 98 kg Janis Strenga WCh 2015: Silver (tied with Johannes Lochner) ECh 2015: Silver Overall WCup 2014-2015: 1 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 4 Four-man OWG 2014: Silver WCh 2015: Bronze ECh 2015: Gold Overall WCup 2014-2015: 1 Former decathlon athlete Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 15 Loves Latvian food and holidays at Latvian lakes First Olympic medal and Overall World Cup trophys for Latvia 3 WON, Yunjong KOR Youngwoo Seo Two-man 17.06.1985 Junglin Jun OWG 2014: 18th 182 cm - 94 kg Jinsu Kim WCh 2015: 5th Jeahan Oh Overall WCup 2014-2015: 11 Kyunghyun Kim Overall WCup 2015-2016: 1 Four-man OWG 2014: 20th WCh 2015: 18th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 19 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 16 First Korean bobsleigh pilot to win an IBSF World Cup race (Jan 2016 in Whistler/2 Man) Bib Name Nation Push athletes team Ergebnisse/Results 4 ZALIMS, Ugis LAT Janis Jansons Two-man 19.02.1986 - Saldus Intars Dambis OWG: - 185 cm - 100 kg Davis Springis WCh 2015: 6th Raivis Zirups Overall WCup 2014-2015: 20 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 3 Four-man OWG: - WCh: - Best in WCup: 5th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 27 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 13 Finished second at his World Cup debut in St. Moritz last season. Firefighter Former sports: tug-of-war 5 KRIPPS, Justin CAN Joshua Kirkpatraick Two-man 06.01.1987 - Na'alehu, Hawaii Ben Coakwell OWG 2014: 6th 183 cm - 96 kg Alexander Kopacz WCh 2013: 12th Derek Plug Best in WCup: 1st (Jan 14, Königssee) Overall WCup 2014-2015: 8 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 9 Four-man OWG 2014: 29th Best in WCup: 3rd (Jan 16, Lake Placid) Overall WCup 2014-2015: 8 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 6 Born in Na'alehu, Hawaii, the most southern point of the USA Once named his sleds Pele+Poliahu (Hawaiian Gods of fire+ice) 6 PETER, Rico SUI Bror van der Zijde Two-man 13.09.1983 Thomas Amrhein OWG 2014: 10th Simon Friedli WCh 2015: 7th Fabio Badraun ECh 2014: Silver (2015: Bronze) Best in WCup: 1st( Feb 15, Sochi) Overall WCup 2014-2015: 3 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 5 Four-man WCh 2013, 2015: 6th ECh 2015: 6th Best in WCup: 3rd Works as truck driver for a Overall WCup 2014-2015: 6 landscape gardener in summer Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 3 Favourite athlete is Swiss Tennis player Roger Federer 7 ARNDT, Maximilian GER Kevin Kuske Two-man 23.07.1987, Suhl Kevin Korona OWG 2014: 15th 180 cm - 93 kg Ben Heber WCh 2012: Bronze Martin Putze ECh 2012: Silver Overall WCup 2014-2015: 18 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 6 Four-man OWG 2014: 6th WCh 2013, 2015: Gold (2012: Silver) ECh 2012, 2013: Gold Overall WCup 2013-2014: 1 Former luge athlete Overall WCup 2014-2015: 3 German Federal Police Overall WCup 2015-2016: 1 Defending World Champion in Four Man Bob Bib Name Nation Push athletes team Ergebnisse/Results 8 HOLCOMB, Steven USA Adrian Adams Two-man 14.04.1980 - Oakley James Reed OWG 2014: Bronze 178 cm - 91 kg Carlo Valdes WCh 2012: Gold Casey Wickline Overall WCup 2007, 2014: 1st Sam Michener Overall World Cup 2014-2015: 6 Nic Taylor Overall WCup 2015-2016: 7 Hakeem Adbul-Saboor Four-man Frank Del Duca OWG 2010: Gold (2014: Bronze) Austin Landis WCh 2009, 2012: Gold Samuel McGuffie Overall WCup 2010: 1st Evan Weinstock. Overall World Cup 2014-2015: 7 Suffered from Keratoconus, an Overall WCup 2015-2016: 11 eye desease. Nearly went blind a few years ago. Wrote a book about it: "But now I see" 9 KASJANOV, Alexander RUS Aleksei Pushkarev Two-man 30.09.1983 - Bratsk Dmitry Trunenkov OWG 2014: 4th 188 cm - 100 kg Vasiliy Kondratenko WCh 2015: 7th Ilvir Huzin JWCh 2008: Bronze Yuri Chubakov ECh 2015: 4th Kirill Antukh Overall World Cup 2014-2015: 7 Maxim Mokrousov Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 8 Roman Koshelev Four-man Maxim Belugin OWG 2014: 4th Pavel Utkin WCh 2015: 7th Ilfat Sadeev ECh 2015: Silver One of his coaches is Victor Ilya Malykh Best in WCup: 1st (Jan 16, Park City 1) Kneyb, two times Russian Luge Overall World Cup 2014-2015: 2 Olympian Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 5 Born in Bratsk - like Olympic Champion Alexander Zubkov 10 FRIEDRICH, Francesco GER Thorsten Margis Two-man 02.05.1990 - Pirna Martin Putze OWG 2014: 8th 183 cm - 92 kg Jannis Bäcker JWCh 2011, 2013: Gold Candy Bauer WCh 2013, 2015:Gold ECh 2015: Gold (2013: Bronze) Overall WCup 2014-2015: 4 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 10 Four-man OWG 2014: 10th JWCh 2013: Gold ECh 2015: Bronze Winning the 2013 World Overall WCup 2014-2015: 5 Championships , he became the Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 2 youngest World Champion ever in Two Man Bob (22 Years, 270 days) 11 SPRING, Chris CAN Derek Plug Two-man 06.03.1984 - Darwin, Australia Joshua Kirkpatrick OWG 2014: 7th 180 cm - 101 kg Lascelles Brown WCh 2013: 6th Samuel Giguere Best in WCup: 3rd (Dec13, Calgary) Overall WCup 2014-2015: 14 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 11 Four-man OWG 2014: 13th WCh 2015: 8th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 9 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 20 Born in Australia, swa Canadian Bobsleigh Championships while working in Calgary das was hooked. Started for AUS at 2010 OWG Bib Name Nation Push athletes team Ergebnisse/Results 12 CUNNINGHAM, Nick USA Adrian Adams James Reed Two-man 08.05.1985 - Monterey Carlo Valdes OWG 2014: 13 177 cm - 95 kg Casey Wickline WCh 2015: 12th Sam Michener Best in WCup: 2nd Nic Taylor Overall WCup 2014-2015: 9 Hakeem Adbul-Saboor Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 12 Frank Del Duca Four-man Austin Landis OWG 2014: 12th Sam McGuffie WCh 2015: 14th Evan Weinstock Best in WCup: 3rd (Nov '12, Lake Placid) Overall WCup 2014-2015: 12 Born in California Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 12 His dream was to be a racecar driver Has a degree in Communications 13 KIBERMANIS, Oskars LAT Vairis Leiboms Two-man 04.04.1993 - Valmiera Helvijs Lusis OWG 2014: 16th 186 cm - 92 kg Raivis Zirups JWCh 2012: Bronze Janis Jansons WCh 2015: 8th ECh 2015: 9th Best in WCup:6th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 12 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 14 Four-man OWG 2014: 14th JWCh 2012: Silver Former decathlon athlete WCh 2015: 15th Fan of AC/DC ECh 2015: 7th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 10 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 9 14 STULNEV, Alexey RUS Maxim Belugin Two-man 12.12.1987 - Pavlovsk Kirill Antukh OWG: - 188 cm - 98 kg Nikolai Gzendilov WCh 2015: 11th Maxim Mokrousov JWCh 2012: Silver Roman Koshelev Overall WCup 2014-2015: 14 Ilfat Sadeev Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 13 Four-man OWG: - WCh 2015: 11th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 13 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 7 Full time athlete 15 HEFTI, Beat SUI Alex Baumann Two-man 03.02.1978 - Schwellbrunn Sandro Ferrari OWG 2014: Silver 182 cm - 100 kg Andre Hoepli WCh 2013: Silver (2015: 4th) ECh 2010, 2013, 2014: Gold Overall WCup 2012: 1st Overall WCup 2014-2015: 2 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 18 Four-man OWG 2014: 8th WCh 2013: 4th as push athlete: OWG 2006- ECh 2013: Silver Bronze, WCh 2007 -Gold Overall WCup 2014-2015: 33 Overall WCup 2000-2002: 1st Overall World Cup 2015-2016: - Occupation: Carpenter Father of three daughters Bib Name Nation Push athletes team Ergebnisse/Results 16 LOCHNER, Johannes GER Joshua Bluhm Two-man 15.10.1990 - Berchtesgaden OWG 190 cm - 95 kg JWCh 2016: Gold WCh 2015: Silver (tied with Oskars Melbardis) Best in WCup: 5th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 15 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: - Four-man OWG WCh His uncle is Rudy Lochner, 1991 JWCh 2016: Gold (2014: Silver) World Champion and 1992 OWG Overall WCup 2014-2015: silver medallist. Overall World Cup 2015-2016: - Won a surprise silver medal at 2015 WCh 17 BERTAZZO, Simone ITA Francesco Costa Two-man 19.08.1982 - Tai di Cadore Simone Fontana OWG 2006: 9th 184 cm - 98 kg Costantino Ughi WCh 2007: Bronze Best in WCup: 1st (Dec. 10 Lake Placid, Feb 11 Cesana) Overall WCup 2010-2011: 3 Overall WCup 2014-2015: 21 Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 15 Four-man OWG 2010: 9th Best in WCup: 5th Overall WCup 2014-2015: 12 Carabinieri Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 10 His father also used to compete for Italy Sled build by Ferrari 18 KIM, Donghyun KOR Keunbo Kim Two-man 12.11.1987 - Seoul Junglin Jun OWG:- 185 cm - 80 kg Jinsu Kim WCh 2015: 31th Youngwoo Seo Overall WCup 2013-2014: 32 Overall WCup 2014-2015: 19 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 16 Four-man OWG 2014: 27th WCh:- Overall WCup 2013-2014: 30 Overall WCup 2014-2015: 32 The Korean team lost coach Overall WCup 2015-2016: - Malcolm "Gomer" Lloyd in January 2016 Since then, they race with his portrait on the sleds 19 RINALDI, Rudy MON Boris Vain Two-man 18.08.1993 - Monaco OWG YOG 2012: Bronze WCh 2015: 23th JWCH 2015: 4th ECh Overall WCup 2014-2015: - Overall World Cup 2015-2016: 22 Four-man OWG Won the first ever Olympic WCh Medal for Monaco (Bronze at ECh 2012 Youth Olympic Games, Overall WCup 2014-2015: - Innsbruck) Overall World Cup 2015-2016: - Prince Albert of Monaco was the Bib Name Nation Push athletes team Ergebnisse/Results 20 POLONIATO, Nick CAN Joshua Kirkpatrick Two-man 20.07.1987 - Hamilton Cameron Stones OWG 183 cm - 96 kg WCh Overall WCup 2014-2015: 23 Overall WCup 2015-2016: 39 Four-man OWG WCh Overall WCup 2014-2015: - Overall WCup 2015-2016: - Former Football player studied business (entrepreneurship, marketing) Hobbies : fishing, camping, canoeing, anything outdoors.