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Two, Women

Date18 – 19 February 2022
StatusOlympic
LocationYanqing National Sliding Centre, West Dazhuangke, Zhangshanying, Yanqing District
Participants40 from 12 countries
FormatFour runs, total time determined placement. Only the best 20 teams contest the final run.
DetailsCurves: 16
Length: 1,615 m
Start Altitude: 1,017 m
Vertical Drop: 121 m

Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi (Germany) won the two-woman bobsleigh comfortably, posting the best time in the first three runs, and winning by 0.77 seconds. Fellow Germans Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt took the silver medal, finishing with the fastest run of the final round. Burghardt was making her Winter Olympic début, but not her Olympic début, as she had been a sprinter in athletics at Tokyo 2020.

Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman (USA) came home for the bronze medal, placing third on all four runs. This was the first Olympic Winter Games for Nolte, although she did win a gold medal in monobob at the 2016 Youth Olympic Winter Games. Jamanka won her second consecutive medal in the event after winning gold at PyeongChang 2018 with Lisa Buckwitz. She immediately announced her retirement after the final run.

Meyers Taylor won her fourth medal in two-woman bobsleigh, which led the medal table in the event over Kaillie Humphries (Canada/USA), who finished seventh eventually. Meyers Taylor’s five bobsleigh medals were the most for any woman, ahead of Humphries with four.

After winning a silver medal in monobob, Meyers Taylor also became the first woman to win two bobsleigh medals at a single Olympics. She was 37 years, 132 days old at the time, making her the oldest female medallist in bobsleigh, surpassing Gerda Weissensteiner (Italy) who was 37 year 48 days in 2006.

PosPairNOCTimeRun #1Run #2Run #3Run #4
1Laura Nolte / Deborah LeviGER4:03.961:01.04 (1)1:01.01 (1)1:00.70 (1)1:01.21 (2)Gold
2Mariama Jamanka / Alexandra BurghardtGER4:04.731:01.10 (2)1:01.45 (2)1:00.98 (2)1:01.20 (1)Silver
3Elana Meyers Taylor / Sylvia HoffmanUSA4:05.481:01.41 (4)1:01.97 (9)1:01.75 (6)1:01.91 (8)Bronze
4Kim Kalicki / Lisa BuckwitzGER4:06.281:01.04 (1)1:01.01 (1)1:00.70 (1)1:01.21 (2)
5Christine de Bruin / Kristen BujnowskiCAN4:06.371:01.45 (5)1:01.76 (4)1:01.43 (5)1:01.73 (6)
6Melanie Hasler / Nadja PasternackSUI4:06.831:01.65 (7)1:01.85 (6)1:01.77 (7)1:01.56 (=3)
7Kaillie Humphries / Kaysha LoveUSA4:07.041:01.41 (4)1:01.97 (9)1:01.75 (6)1:01.91 (8)
8Cynthia Appiah / Dawn Richardson WilsonCAN4:07.521:01.75 (8)1:01.89 (7)1:01.95 (10)1:01.93 (9)
9Nadezhda Sergeyeva / Yuliya BelomestnykhROC4:08.111:02.04 (16)1:01.90 (8)1:02.34 (18)1:01.83 (7)
10Kati Beierl / Jennifer OnasanyaAUT4:08.241:01.91 (13)1:02.12 (=12)1:01.89 (9)1:02.32 (16)
11Huai Mingming / Wang XuanCHN4:08.261:01.88 (11)1:02.17 (14)1:02.11 (=12)1:02.10 (12)
12Melissa Lotholz / Sara VillaniCAN4:08.371:02.12 (18)1:02.09 (10)1:01.85 (8)1:02.31 (15)
13Margot Boch / Carla SenechalFRA4:08.391:01.90 (12)1:02.32 (17)1:02.20 (15)1:01.97 (10)
14Ying Qing / Du JianiCHN4:08.491:01.92 (14)1:02.19 (15)1:02.29 (17)1:02.09 (11)
15An Vannieuwenhuyse / Sara AertsBEL4:08.581:02.08 (17)1:02.12 (=12)1:02.11 (=12)1:02.27 (14)
16Breeana Walker / Kiara ReddingiusAUS4:08.641:01.98 (15)1:02.11 (11)1:02.04 (11)1:02.51 (20)
17Mica McNeill / Montell DouglasGBR4:08.851:02.19 (19)1:02.35 (=18)1:02.17 (14)1:02.14 (13)
18Andreea Grecu / Katharina WickROU4:08.981:01.82 (9)1:02.47 (20)1:02.25 (16)1:02.44 (18)
19Anastasiya Makarova / Yelena MamedovaROC4:09.091:01.83 (10)1:02.29 (16)1:02.48 (20)1:02.49 (19)
20Martina Fontanive / Irina StrebelSUI4:09.591:02.48 (20)1:02.35 (=18)1:02.35 (19)1:02.41 (17)