![]() The team also won bronze at the 2019 World Championships on home ice in Whistler. ![]() Ryan Sommer joined the program last year and now has five four-man podiums. Kripp’s crew was formed following the 2018 Games with Olympians Coakwell and Stones, who have both also been tapped to push the Canadian sled in two-man. After opening the season with back-to-back victories in the four-man sled in Lake Placid, Kripps also slid to the top of the four-man podium in Konigssee, Germany last weekend. It has been a stellar end to the World Cup four-man season for the Canadian team. On the finish straight away, I was thinking – ‘there is no way anyone is going this fast. “Everything was going really well, hitting good lines, and when we came out of horseshoe we were really moving. ![]() Once I jumped in, I just wanted to fix any skids. “I had tweaked my groin, so I was pretty taped up and honestly was just hoping not to slow the sled down on the push,” said Kripps. The Canadians were in second spot after the first heat, but a fourth-place start time in the final run provided the velocity Kripps needed to finish on top. drove to eighth place in the finale and finished the four-man season in fifth place overall. Lochner was second in the four-man standings this season and Kripps was third - the best finish by a Canadian sled since Pierre Lueders finished second overall in the 2005-06 season. Friedrich won the four-man title for the second consecutive year, clinching the championship despite finishing a season-worst fifth in the finale.
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