Canada’s Melissa Lotholz and Skylar Sieben claimed bronze of their two-woman bobsled race at the ultimate World Cup event of the season on Sunday.
The result got here after a last-minute decision to insert Sieben for Leah Walkeden because the brakewoman in Lotholz’s sled. Walkeden decided to withdraw Sunday after battling illness all week.
Lotholz, a two-time Olympian from Barrhead, Alta., earned her first podium in 20 World Cup starts as a pilot. She has 19 World Cup and world championship medals as a brakewoman.
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Lotholz and Sieben, of Cochrane, Alta., finished 0.96 seconds behind gold medallists Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi of Germany, who also topped the rostrum on the 2022 Olympics.
Fellow Germans Lisa Buckwitz and Neele Schuten were 0.20 seconds back of the lead in second.
Nolte is the general World Cup winner in two-woman bobsled for a 3rd consecutive season.
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