MOSCOW, Jan 8, Oleg Bogatov. Fourth place in the doubles competition at the stage The World Cup in Winterberg (Germany) is a good result, as he lost only to two German crews and a tandem led by Olympic champion 2018 Canadian Justin Cripps, said Russian bobsledder Rostislav Gaityukevich. Pilot Gaityukevich and overrun Alexander Efimov stopped in two races on Saturday. from the bronze medal. The stage was won by Germans Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schüller, showing a time of 1 minute 49.78 seconds. The second were their compatriots Johannes Lochner and Florian Bauer (+0.33), the third — Canadians Justin Cripps and Cam Stones (+0.85). Gaityukevich and Efimov lost 1.09 seconds to the winners. «We had a good run in both races,» Gaityukevich said. «Today we ran in the new technical characteristics of the bob, we hadn’t performed on this track before with such settings. Our spare accelerator was in the crew. I am very pleased with the start. , we showed the third and second times, respectively. There were, of course, some nuances. But they did not affect the result so much, because the opponents were wrong in the same way. » shameful, «the agency's interlocutor continued.» The Canadian also started a little earlier, and I was surrounded by German crews. Our starting position was generally good. But I think that for a few hundredths of a second or even one «ten» the ice had worsened by this time. Maybe this is not the case. «
