Walker & Reddingius start World Cup season with top-5 in Winterberg

2022 Olympians Bree Walker and Kiarra Reddingius have made a successful start in their first two-woman bobsleigh World Cup of the season, with a fifth place finish in Winterberg, Germany.
 
Walker focused on World Cup monobob events in December, and successfully at the European Cup level two-woman events pre-Christmas collecting gold and silver medals.
 
In Winterberg, the pair opened with the fourth fastest time in 57.48 seconds, and then the sixth fastest time of the second run in 57.29.
 
Their two-run time of 1:54.77 put them in fifth place overall, just 0;01 seconds off fourth place.
 
Germany clean swept the podium, Buckwitz/Lipperheide finished in first place in a time of 1:54.01, just 0.01 seconds ahead of Nolte/Levi in and Kalicki/Fiebig in third place, who were only 0.2 seconds behind first.

"Another close race, but very happy with fifth to start off our World Cup campaign in two-man" said Walker.

"We have a new sled this season we it’s about getting to know this sled and how it works and then building on performances.

Sarah Blizzard and Haley Silvester finished in 18th place and made the top twenty cut for a second run.
 
The World Cup tour now heads to the iconic hand cut ice Cresta Run track in St Moritz, Switzerland. The monobob race is on January 11 and the two-woman event on January 12.