Mariama Jamanka from Oberhof, the second German driver after Sandra Kiriasis, won the Olympic gold medal in two-man bobsleigh at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. After four runs on the track at the Olympic Sliding Centre, the 27-year-old former European champion had an advantage of seven hundredths of a second over world champion Elana Meyers Taylor from the USA, who won silver as she did four years ago.
Bronze, 0.44 seconds behind Jamanka, went to Canada’s Kaillie Humphries, who had triumphed in Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014.
Stephanie Schneider/Annika Drazek (Oberbärenburg/Winterberg) took fourth place. Sandra Kiriasis from Winterberg was the first German to be successful in Turin in 2006.
Jamanka thus won the twelfth German gold medal at the games in South Korea for the German team, which thus broke its 1998 victory record in Nagano and 2002 in Salt Lake City.
Germany has four more gold medals in the biathlon (both relay races), in the Nordic combination (team) and in the four-man bobsleigh.