Kripps and four-times world champion Friedrich both finished with identical times of three minutes 16.86 seconds. Latvia's Oskars Melbardis took bronze.
It was the first dead-heat in the Olympic two-man bobsleigh competition since Nagano in 1998.
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(Reporting by James Pearson, editing by Ed Osmond)
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