American sliders Noelle Pikus-Pace and Katie Uhleander talk about their 1-2 podium finish.
Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA) gets the win in the last race of the season and on the future Olympic track by .11 seconds, she finishs the season ranked 11th.
In the last race of the season Marion Thees (GER) finishes .19 second off the podium, but scores enough points to win the World Cup by only four points.
Katie Uhlander (USA) slips .11 second behind her teammate Pikus-Pace to get 2nd, it’s her 4th podium of the season in which she finishes in 3rd.
In the last heat of the season, John Daly (USA), finished the WC season strong with a time of 155.59, just .07 seconds off the podium. Daly was 4th after the first run and but failed to gain any ground on the top 3 spots in his 2nd run.
In the last heat of the season, Martins Dukurs (LAT) showed his dominance once again, finishing with a time of 1:54.12. Dukurs won an astounding 8 out of 9 WC races this season and picked up his 25th career WC win.
Alexander Tretiakov (RUS) finished with total time of 4:32.35, beating defending champ Martins Dukurs (LAT) by .03 seconds. Tretiakov had the best times in 3 out of the 4 runs.
Commentators, Martin Haven and John Morgan talk about the history of bobsled and skeleton at St. Moritz, Switzerland, along with the course.
The 31 year old Shelley Rudman became the first British women to win the Skeleton World championships, finishing with a time of 4:38.6. Rudman was a silver medalist at the 2006 Olympic games and is the current overall WC champion.
For the fourth year in a row, Martins Dukurs is the European Skeleton champion, winning by .75 seconds.
Alexander Tretjyakov (RUS) gets 2nd place, .75 seconds back, as well as landing 2nd in the Europeon championship.
John Daly leads the Americans with a 16th place finish, recovering a from a weak first run, 1.59 seconds off the podium.
In her first year in the World Cup, 20-year-old Elena Nikitina (RUS) gets the win by .27 seconds in just her third race.
Several racers have trouble managing the extra speed on the Igls finish, all but wiping out.
Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA) climbs on the podium for the 4th straight time this season, getting her first second place finish, just .27 seconds behind.
Katie Uhlaender (USA) comes up short, finishing .42 seconds off the podium; she currently ranks 5th in the World Cup.
The 30 year old American Noelle Pikus-Pace finished with a time of 1:47.51, winning her 1st WC gold medal since 2004. Pikus-Pace also finished on the podium last week when she came in 3rd place at Altonburg.
Huber (GER) finished with a time of 1:48.03, .52 seconds behind 2nd place Thees (GER). A win here could have been huge for Huber, as she sits in 2nd place behind Thees in the WC standings by 94 points.
Thees (GER) was 4th after the first run and improved to 2nd in the final run, finishing with a total time of 1:47.92. Thees was .41 seconds behind winner Pikus-Pace (USA) but still is the overall WC leader with 1400 points.
Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA) took third with a time of 2:02.87, just .28 seconds out of second place. Pikus-Pace was 4th after the first run, but was able to climb up third with the second run.
Katie Uhlaender (USA) finished with a time of 2:02.60, just .01 seconds out of first place. Uhlaender lead after the first run, but lost time in her second run. Uhlaender won the previous WC skeleton race at La Plagne.
Marion Thees (GER) won the skeleton in front of her home crowd, finishing with a time of 2:02.59. Thees was third after the first run, but managed to put together an impressive second run to beat out Katie Uhlaender.
Points leader Marion Thees (GER) tied with second place finisher Sarah Reid (CAN). Thees and Reid finished with a time of 2:08.71 and are separated by 16 World Cup points.
The first two-time winner of the WC this year, Katie Ulaender (USA) finished with a time of 2:08.22. Uhlaender sits 7th in the overall standings as Marion Thees (GER) remains in first.
Mr. Superman, Martins Dukurs, took flight leaving everyone in the dust with a time of 2:02.00. This is Dukurs second consecutive victory, and he has won 4 out of the 5 skeleton events so far this season.
Matthew Antoine (USA) lead the way for Americans, finishing 7th with a time 2:03.91. Antoine was .83 seconds off the podium and is trying to make his comeback after undergoing knee surgery.
After a three year draught, Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA) gets back on the podium in third place, 1.10 seconds out of first.
The current European champion Shelley Rudman (GBR) wins again in Winterberg, by nearly a full second.
Martins Dukurs finished second with a time of 1:47.40, .21 seconds behind Frank Rommel. Dukurs’ error came in curve 6, leading into turn 7, where he tapped the wall. Dukurs is still the overall leader.
Frank Rommel (GER) finished with a time of 1:47.19, beating Martins Dukurs by .21 seconds. Rommel had a close race with Dukurs at Lake Placid, but was disqualified when his sled weighed 100 grams outside the legal limits.
Marion Thees (GER) received her first win of the WC season finishing with a time of 1:50.92. Thees led after the first run and was able to hold onto the lead to pull out a victory.
Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA) finished 6th with a time of 1:51.37, just .18 seconds off the podium. Fellow American Katie Uhlaender took 7th place.
John Daly finished with a time of 1:40.38, only .56 seconds off of the podium. Daly also finished 4th during last week’s event in Lake Placid.
Dukurs (LAR) finished with a time of 1:39.71, beatin out 2nd place Kroeckel (GER) by .05 seconds. Dukurs also won gold during last week’s event in Lake Placid.
Elizabeth Yarnold’s (GBR) first trip to Park City almost ended in victory as the young athlete finished with a time of 1:40.94, losing to Ulaender (USA) by a 100th of a second. Had she won the Cup, she would have earned her 3rd career gold medal.
Uhlaender (USA) finished with a total time of 1:40.93, beating out Yarnold (GBR) by 100th of a second. Uhlaender won gold earlier this season at Lake Placid.
World Champion Katie Uhlaender (USA) comes up .38 second short, falling off the podium.
Sarah Reid (CAN) gets her first podium win during the season opener, trumping her country woman Melissa Mollingsworth by .03 seconds.
Last seasons World Champ and World Cup winner, Martin Dukurs (LAT) wins the first race of the new season by .08 seconds.
John Daly (USA) finishes 1.31 seconds off the podium, with his highest World Cup finish in 4th.
The United States’ bobsled and skeleton teams will try to get off to fast starts when the eight-race 2012-13 Viessman World Cup bobsled and skeleton series opens on the Olympic Sports Complex track, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg, in Lake Placid, N.Y.
This season’s national women’s bobsled team is a mix of rookies and veterans. World Championship bronze medalist Elana Meyers will pilot USA I, Jamie Greubel will pilot USA II, while Jazmine Fenlator was named to USA III. The six women’s bobsled push athletes named to the national team includes: World Indoor Champion and American record […]
IGLS, Austria (Jan. 18, 2013)-Women’s skeleton competitor Noelle Pikus-Pace (Orem, Utah) followed up her win last week with a silver medal performance in Igls, Austria this morning. The last time Pikus-Pace medaled in Igls was six years ago in the January 2007 World Cup, where she also finished second. “It’s still just as exciting as […]
Winner Noelle Pikus-Pace from the United States celebrates after the women’s Skeleton World Cup race in Koenigssee, Germany, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson) Courtesy of teamusa.org Koenigssee, Germany (Jan. 11, 2013) – Noelle Pikus-Pace (Orem, Utah) captured her first World Cup gold medal since 2004 in Koenigssee’s women’s skeleton race today. The last […]
ALTENBERG, Germany (Jan. 4, 2013)-The U.S. women’s skeleton team kicked off the New Year with silver and bronze medal performances in the Altenberg, Germany World Cup event today. Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colo.) finished just 0.01 seconds shy of gold in second place, while Noelle Pikus-Pace (Orem, Utah) moved up in the final run to claim […]
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LA PLAGNE, France (Dec. 15, 2012) – Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colo.) won the La Plagne women’s skeleton World Cup event today to become the first female slider to win two World Cup races this season. Uhlaender took her first season victory in Park City, Utah three weeks ago, and was determined to climb the medal […]
LA PLAGNE, France (Dec. 11, 2012)-The World Cup tour stops this week in the mountains of La Plagne, France for the final event before the holiday break. The La Plagne track was the sliding venue for the 1992 Winter Olympics, whose host city was neighboring Albertville. This is the second season in a row that […]
WINTERBERG, Germany (Dec. 8, 2012)- Three North American sleds finished in the top four in this morning’s women’s bobsled World Cup race in Winterberg, and two were U.S. teams. Elana Meyers (Douglasville, Ga.) and Katie Eberling (Palos Hills, Ill.) slid a silver medal performance, while Jamie Greubel (Newtown, Pa.) and Emily Azevedo (Chico, Calif.) were […]
WINTERBERG, Germany (Dec. 7, 2012)- When Noelle Pikus-Pace (Orem, Utah) decided to make a comeback she thought she would ease back into the sport and wasn’t sure what to expect going into the season. That all changed today when she raced to a bronze medal finish in Winterberg’s women’s skeleton race to earn her first […]
WINTERBERG, Germany (Dec. 4, 2012)- After a one-week hiatus following the North American portion of the tour, the World Cup circuit will continue in Winterberg, Germany this week. Races will take place from Dec. 7-9, and will include the first team event of the season. The detailed schedule is as follows, with all times listed […]
WHISTLER, British Columbia (Nov. 23, 2012)- The U.S. women’s bobsled team finished 9-10-11 in their first event together on the challenging 2010 Olympic course. Jazmine Fenlator (Wayne, N.J.) and Katie Eberling (Palos Hills, Ill.) were the top U.S. finishers in their first competitive event at the Whistler Sliding Centre, while Elana Meyers (Douglasville, Ga.) and […]
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PARK CITY, Utah (Nov. 16, 2012)- The U.S. women’s bobsled team put together another solid day of results in the second World Cup competition of the season today. Jamie Greubel (Newtown, Pa.) and Katie Eberling (Palos Hills, Ill.) were on the cusp of medaling in fourth place, while Jazmine Fenlator (Wayne, N.J.) and Emily Azevedo […]
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (Nov. 8, 2012)- The U.S. women’s bobsled team has a goal of finishing 1-2-3 at the 2014 Sochi Games, and the talented squad proved they are on track by earning silver and bronze in today’s World Cup season opener at Mount Van Hoevenberg. Jazmine Fenlator (Wayne, N.J.) and Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones […]
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