For the second time in 20 years, Canada has tied for a gold medal in the two-man bobsleigh competition at the Winter Games.

Justin Kripps and Alex Kopacz matched the German team of Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis with a time of 3:16:86 after four runs.

It means both pairs have reached the top of the Olympic podium.

Back in 1998 at Nagano, Japan, the Candian team of Pierre Lueders and Dave MacEachern also won gold after tying a team from Italy.

The success of the bobsleigh team is one of several highlights for Canada at the Olympics over the past day.

Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a world record in the short program, leaving them well-positioned to win gold after the free skate.

Their chief competition is the French team of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, who are just 1.74 points behind. They were hampered in by a distracting wardrobe malfunction with Papadakis's flowing costume when they were on the ice.

Virtue and Moir were Canada's Olympic flag bearers and they have already won two Olympic gold medals: once in Vancouver in 2010 and then at Pyeongchang in the team figure-skating event.

Team Canada's women's hockey team has also brought pride to the country by trouncing Olympic athletes from Russia by a 5-0 score in the semi-final match. Goalie Shannan Szabados only had to turn aside 14 shots to post the shutout.

This moves Team Canada to its sixth straight Olympic gold-medal final. They're hoping to win the tournament for the fifth straight time.

So far, Canada has six gold medals, five silvers, and six bronzes.