The duo erupted into excited cheers after driving Canada into gold with 53.23 seconds in their final run. Earlier in third run, the pair broke the track record with a time of 52.85 seconds.
While Humphries, 24, and Moyse, 31, made Canadians proud, their teammates Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown received a silver medal for Canada with a total time of 3:33.13 seconds.
Canada won it’s 14th and 15th medals, placing fourth overall, in the medal standings.
American racers Erin Pac and Elana Meyers steered to bronze medal with a time of 3:33.40 seconds, 1.12 seconds behind the gold medalists.
In Olympic bobsleigh, four heats are held over the course of two days.
Like luge and skeleton, bobsleigh grew out of sledding. Yet today’s competitive bobsleigh is more state-of-the-art. The Olympic bobsleigh is built with a rounded fiberglass nose and four highly polished steel runners.
The two-person bobsleigh event joined the Olympic Games program in 1932. Women started to compete in bobsleigh in 2002 at Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
After pushing the bobsleigh as fast as possible for about 50 meters, the racers would jump into the bobsleigh for a seated fast drive down the track.
