Take the season’s biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsled, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world championships, and there have been 59 instances of sliders from one place sweeping the podium.

German sits in gold and silver positions midway through the four-man bobsled event.

With Francesco Friedrich's two-man bobsled victory, Germany has now won seven of the eight sliding sport events contested at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

With Francesco Friedrich first and Johannes Lochner second at the midpoint, Germany is in position to add to its sliding sport gold haul at the 2022 Olympics.

Germany's Francesco Friedrich looks to earn his country a seventh sliding sport gold medal at the 2022 Winter Games.