Canada’s Chris Spring and Neville Wright win silver at bobsled World Cup
WINTERBERG, Germany — Canada’s Chris Spring and Neville Wright earned silver in the two-man bobsled on Saturday in a World Cup race in Winterberg, Germany.
The newly formed duo, who won the gold medal two weeks ago at the Whistler Sliding Centre in B.C., in their first race together, captured their first World Cup medal outside of North America. They led all three Canadian men’s sleds into the top-five on a snowy and cold day in Germany. Canada’s Kaillie Humphries and Mellisa Lotholz also finished fourth in the women’s race.
“It is always great to be on the podium and Neville has been an amazing teammate. Not only is he pushing great, but he is giving me lots of confidence in my driving, and that’s what I need,” said the 33-year-old Spring. “I’m a mojo guy and when I have good mojo then the sled starts to get moving. It’s the X factor I always look for.”
Calgary’s Spring and Edmonton’s Wright climbed two spots in their final run to chalk up a combined-run time of one minutes 51.76 seconds on the 1,330-metre track to finish in a tie for second place with the German team of Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis.