Jamaica’s women’s bobsleigh team of driver Jazmine Finlator- Victorian and Carrie Russell ended their historic campaign at the winter Olympics in Pyenogchang South Korea finishing in 19th position in the two member team competition today.
Starting the day in 18th place the Jamaicans first produce a time of 51.83 seconds in the third round before improving to 51.32 seconds in the fourth and final round.
They finished with cumulative score of 3 minutes 25.94 seconds which placed them ahead of Nigeria
Yesterday the pair clocked 51.50 seconds in heat two inside the olympic sliding centre, following their 17th place finish in heat one where they were timed at 51.29 seconds for a cumulative score of 1 minute 42.79 seconds.
Meanwhile Germany’s Mariama Jamanka and Lisa Buckwitz struck gold by beating USA by seven-hundredths of a second.
Germany, with a cumulative winning time of 3min 22.45sec, pocketed their fourth olympic title in women’s bobsleigh to gain on the USA’s total of five.