2016/2017 IBSF North American Cup – Men’s Skeleton – Race 7

January 19, 2017 ken News, Skeleton News 0

From Lake Placid, USA

Results from the seventh IBSF North American Cup men’s skeleton race of the 2016/2017 season, held January 19, 2017.

Russian Pavel Kulikov edged American John Daly to take gold in Lake Placid in a race 39 men deep.

Daly came into the second run .16 ahead of Kulikov, but the Russian put down a better second trip down Mt. Van Hoevenberg to seal gold. Daly held on for silver, a tenth ahead of British slider Jeremy Rice, who finished with a bronze.

Australian John Farrow finished fourth to hold onto his North American Cup lead with one race to go, while Austrian Alexander Auer finished fifth and Vladislav Marchenkov finished sixth.

American Kyle Brown tied with British slider Kenny Howard for ninth, with American teammates Allen Blackwell and Andrew Blaser finishing 15th and 23rd respectively.

Andy White led the way for Canada with a 17th place finish, one spot ahead of teammate Mark Lynch. Kyle Murray and Taylor Purdy finished 20th and 28th, respectively.

Adam Edelman was the top-scoring slider from Israel with a 19th place finish, picking up one spot on his second run.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Pavel Kulikov RUS 5.00 4.97 55.34 55.30 1:50.64
2 John Daly USA 5.05 5.04 55.18 55.61 1:50.79
3 Jeremy Rice GBR 5.02 4.96 55.61 55.28 1:50.89
4 John Farrow AUS 5.26 5.29 55.51 55.64 1:51.15
5 Alexander Auer AUT 5.11 5.14 55.39 55.85 1:51.24
6 Vladislav Marchenkov RUS 5.26 5.10 55.95 55.35 1:51.30
7 Joseph Luke Cecchini ITA 5.03 5.05 55.52 55.80 1:51.32
8 Junhyeon Kim KOR 4.95 4.93 55.66 55.76 1:51.42
9 Kyle Brown USA 4.99 5.02 55.48 56.04 1:51.52
9 Kenny Howard GBR 4.92 4.95 55.67 55.86 1:51.52
11 Nicholas Timmings AUS 5.08 5.04 55.92 56.25 1:52.17
12 Seunggi Jung KOR 4.99 4.94 55.82 56.43 1:52.25
13 Jisoo Kim KOR 4.85 4.83 55.83 56.47 1:52.30
14 Wenqiang Geng CHN 5.13 5.06 56.18 56.13 1:52.31
15 Allen Blackwell USA 5.28 5.32 56.19 56.24 1:52.43
16 Alex Hanssen NOR 4.96 4.94 56.98 56.05 1:53.03
17 Andy White CAN 4.89 4.89 55.82 57.42 1:53.24
18 Mark Lynch CAN 5.12 5.13 56.70 57.15 1:53.85
19 Adam Edelman ISR 5.22 5.29 56.84 58.05 1:54.89
20 Kyle Murray CAN 5.00 5.07 56.64 58.28 1:54.92
21 Wenhao Chen CHN 5.05 57.13
21 Joel Seligstein ISR 5.34 57.13
23 Andrew Blaser USA 5.05 57.14
24 Dean Timmings AUS 5.18 57.19
25 Kang Yang CHN 5.01 57.25
25 Seunghyeok Nam KOR 5.22 57.64
27 Nicholas Rettenmyer ITA 5.26 57.70
28 Taylor Purdy CAN 5.18 57.72
29 Toshiki Kuroiwa JPN 5.06 58.01
30 Tatsuro Matsubara JPN 5.51 58.04
31 Husileng Mr CHN 5.44 58.08
32 Lawrence Sidney ISR 5.44 58.14
33 Marin Bangiev BUL 5.51 58.16
34 Jeff Bauer LUX 5.35 58.49
35 Peter Makrides AUS 5.39 58.86
36 Anthony Watson JAM 5.20 59.01
37 Akwasi Frimpong GHA 5.16 59.24
38 Brendan Doyle IRL 5.06 59.28
39 Sebastian Uprimny COL 5.42 60.44