Cdns pick up first bobsled win of season
Posted February 5, 2011 3:55 pm.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
CESANA, Italy — Helen Upperton of Calgary and Shelly-Ann Brown of Toronto won a women’s two-man bobsled World Cup event Saturday for their first victory of the season.
Upperton piloted the Canada 2 sled to a combined two-run time of one minute 54.21 seconds.
Esme Kamphuis and Judith Vis of the Netherlands were second in 1:54.50 while the Germany 1 sled of Sandra Kiriasis and Stephanie Schneider was third in 1:54.52.
Olympic champions Kaillie Humphries of Calgary and Heather Moyse of Summerside, P.E.I., were fifth in the Canada 1 sled.
Upperton and Moyse, the Olympic silver medallists, picked up their third podium finish of the season, to go with a pair of thirds earlier.
