2017–18 IBSF Bobsleigh North American Cup

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2017–18 IBSF Bobsleigh North American Cup

Winners
Two-man	Geoffrey Gadbois
Four-man	Edson Bindilatti
Two-woman	Kim Yoo-ran
Competitions
Venues	4 (8 events)
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The 2017–18 IBSF Bobsleigh North American Cup was a multi-race series over a season for bobsleigh. The season started on 5 November 2017 in Whistler, Canada and ended on 14 January 2018 in Lake Placid, USA. The North American Cup is organised by the IBSF (formerly the FIBT) as a second tier of bobsleigh competitions ranking below the World Cup.

Calendar[]

Note: Double races were held at each round for all disciplines.

Venue	Date	Details
Whistler	5–7 November	First races were shortened to one run
Calgary	14–17 November
Park City	28 November–1 December
Lake Placid	11–14 January

Results[]

Two-man[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Whistler 1	Suk Young-jin  South Korea	52.11	Keefer Joyce  Canada	52.19	Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	52.34
Whistler 2	Taylor Austin Ryan Sommer  Canada	1:44.04 (52.14 / 51.90)	Suk Young-jin  South Korea	1:44.31 (51.99 / 52.32)	Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	1:44.83 (52.42 / 52.41)
Calgary 1	Geoffrey Gadbois  United States	1:51.97 (55.80 / 56.17)	Rudy Rinaldi Boris Vain  Monaco	1:52.11 (55.92 / 56.19)	Suk Young-jin  South Korea	1:52.25 (55.99 / 52.26)
Calgary 2	Geoffrey Gadbois  United States	1:52.12 (56.07 / 56.05)	Rudy Rinaldi Boris Vain  Monaco	1:52.22 (56.12 / 56.10)	Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	1:52.35 (56.11 / 56.24)
Park City 1	Nick Cunningham Christopher Kinney  United States	1:37.37 (48.43 / 48.94)	Justin Olsen Chris Fogt  United States	1:37.72 (48.75 / 48.97)	Geoffrey Gadbois  United States	1:37.96 (48.77 / 49.19)
Park City 2	Justin Olsen Steve Langton  United States	1:37.88 (48.76 / 49.12)	Nick Cunningham Nate Weber  United States	1:38.13 (48.94 / 49.19)	Rudy Rinaldi Boris Vain  Monaco	1:38.17 (49.00 / 49.17)
Lake Placid 1	Geoffrey Gadbois  United States	1:54.07 (56.83 / 57.24)	Li Chunjian Wang Sidong  China	1:54.38 (56.92 / 57.46)	United States	1:54.66 (57.14 / 57.52)
Lake Placid 2	Geoffrey Gadbois  United States	1:58.25 (58.95 / 59.3)	United States	1:58.40 (59.22 / 59.18)	Edson Bindilatti Edson Ricardo Martins  Brazil	1:58.74 (58.93 / 59.81)

Four-man[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Whistler 1	Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	51.50	Switzerland	51.80	Taylor Austin Ryan Sommer Keefer Joyce  Canada	52.13
Whistler 2	Edson Bindilatti Odirlei Pessoni Edson Ricardo Martins Rafael Souza da Silva  Brazil	1:43.38 (51.73 / 51.65)	Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	1:43.39 (51.58 / 51.81)	Switzerland	1:43.51 (51.84 / 51.67)
Calgary 1	Geoffrey Gadbois  United States	1:50.24 (55.05 / 55.19)	Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	1:50.4 (55.27 / 55.13)	Suk Young-jin  South Korea	1:50.55 (55.24 / 55.31)
2	Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	1:50.34 (55.32 / 55.02)	Geoffrey Gadbois  United States	1:50.49 (55.35 / 55.14)	Suk Young-jin  South Korea	1:50.53 (55.31 / 55.22)
Park City 1	Justin Olsen Evan Weinstock Steve Langton Chris Fogt  United States	1:36.55 (48.15 / 48.4)	Nick Cunningham Ryan Bailey Chris Kinney Sam Michener Carlo Valdes  United States	1:36.65 (48.05 / 48.6)	Edson Bindilatti Odirlei Pessoni Edson Ricardo Martins Rafael Souza da Silva  Brazil	1:46.11 (48.57 / 57.54)
Park City 2	Nick Cunningham Sam Michener Chris Kinney Hakeem Abdul-Saboor  United States	1:37.02 (48.43 / 48.59)	Justin Olsen Evan Weinstock Steve Langton Chris Fogt  United States	1:37.29 (48.52 / 48.77)	Edson Bindilatti Odirlei Pessoni Edson Ricardo Martins Rafael Souza da Silva  Brazil	1:37.79 (48.9 / 48.89)
Lake Placid 1	Nick Cunningham Hakeem Abdul-Saboor Chris Kinney Sam Michener  United States	1:50.13 (55 / 55.13)	United States	1:51.14 (55.47 / 55.67)	Edson Bindilatti Odirlei Pessoni Rafael Souza da Silva  Brazil	1:51.29 (55.5 / 55.79)
Lake Placid 2	Sam Michener  United States	1:49.58 (54.66 / 54.92)	Nick Cunningham Hakeem Abdul-Saboor Chris Kinney  United States	1:50.61 (56.08 / 54.53)	Jin Jian Wang Sidong  China	1:50.73 (55.42 / 55.31)

Two-woman[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Whistler 1	Kim Yoo-ran Kim Min-seong  South Korea	53.47	South Korea	53.48	China	53.53
Whistler 2	Canada	1:46.83 (53.17 / 53.66)	Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian Carrie Russell  Jamaica	1:47.03 (53.43 / 53.60)	South Korea	1:47.15 (53.62 / 53.53)
Calgary 1	China	1:55.63 (57.82 / 57.81)	Lake Kwaza  United States	1:55.88 (57.85 / 58.03)	Kim Yoo-ran Kim Min-seong  South Korea	1:56.08 (58.24 / 57.84)
Calgary 2	United States	1:54.86 (57.46 / 57.4)	Kim Yoo-ran Kim Min-seong  South Korea	1:55.74 (57.81 / 57.93)	China	1:56.14 (57.97 / 58.17)
Park City 1	Elana Meyers Taylor  United States	1:39.09 (49.29 / 49.80)	United States	1:39.82 (49.70 / 50.12)	Brittany Reinbolt Kehri Jones  United States	1:39.90 (49.70 / 50.20)
Park City 2	United States	1:40.28 (50.01 / 50.27)	Jamie Greubel Poser Lolo Jones  United States	1:40.47 (49.88 / 50.59)	Brittany Reinbolt  United States	1:40.49 (50.18 / 50.31)
Lake Placid 1	United States	1:56.22 (58.02 / 58.2)	United States	1:56.33 (58.02 / 58.31)	Kim Yoo-ran Kim Min-seong  South Korea	1:57.09 (58.36 / 58.73)
Lake Placid 2	United States	2:01.87 (60.54 / 61.33)	Kim Yoo-ran  South Korea	2:02.34 (60.92 / 61.42)	Kim Min-seong  South Korea	2:02.45 (61.07 / 61.38)

Standings[]

Two-man[]

(J) – Junior competitor.^[1]

Pos.	Racer	WHI1	WHI2	CAL1	CAL2	PAC1	PAC2	LPL1	LPL2	Points
1	Geoffrey Gadbois (USA) (J)	DNF	5	1	1	3	4	1	1	770
2	Taylor Austin (CAN)	4	1	5	9	8	6	7	7	720
3	Shao Yijun (CHN) (J)	13	9	4	5	9	5	6	6	668
4	Li Chunjian (CHN) (J)	9	7	10	10	10	10	2	5	650
5	Jin Jian (CHN) (J)	6	4	12	11	12	11	5	4	636
6	(USA) (J)	3	3	9	3	–	–	3	2	594
7	Edson Bindilatti (BRA)	7	DNS	11	13	6	9	4	3	574
8	(CAN) (J)	2	12	14	12	15	14	11	8	550
9	Dražen Silić (CRO)	8	6	15	15	13	13	10	9	540
10	(JAM) (J)	15	10	13	16	7	16	8	10	516
11	Cristiano Rogerio Paes (BRA)	12	DNS	7	8	5	7	9	DNF	480
12	Suk Young-jin (KOR)	1	2	3	4	DNS	DNS	–	–	428
13	Rudy Rinaldi (MON) (J)	–	–	2	2	4	3	–	–	418
14	Lucas Mata (AUS)	5	DNF	6	7	11	8	–	–	412
15	(SUI)	11	11	8	6	–	–	–	–	304
16	(CHN)	10	8	16	–	14	–	–	–	256
17	Justin Olsen (USA)	–	–	–	–	2	1	–	–	230
18	Nick Cunningham (USA)	–	–	–	–	1	2	–	–	230
19	(USA)	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	11	132
20	(USA) (J)	–	–	–	–	–	–	13	12	124
21	(CHN) (J)	–	–	–	14	–	12	–	–	120
22	(CAN) (J)	14	13	–	–	–	–	–	–	116
23	(KOR) (J)	–	–	–	–	16	15	–	–	100
24	(KOR) (J)	–	–	–	–	17	17	–	–	88
–	(CAN) (J)	–	–	DSQ	DNS	–	–	–	–	0

Four-man[]

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Two-woman[]

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References[]

External links[]

• IBSF Website^{[permanent dead link]}