2016/2017 IBSF North American Cup – Men’s Skeleton – Race 8

January 20, 2017 ken News, Skeleton News 0

From Lake Placid, USA

Results from the eighth and final IBSF North American Cup men’s skeleton race of the 2016/2017 season, held January 20, 2017.

John Daly once again took gold in the North American Cup. The American Olympian was fastest in both runs, cruising to a .77 victory over Race 7 winner Pavel Kulikov of Russia.

Joseph Luke Cecchini finished a season-best third, .27 ahead of Alexander Auer of Austria.

John Farrow finished fifth, which was enough to win the overall North American Cup title.

Kyle Brown made it two Americans in the top ten, tying for eighth with Korean Seunggi Jung. Allen Blackwell finished 12th and Andrew Blaser 16th to round out the American effort.

Andy White was the top scoring Canadian in tenth place. Kyle Murray finished 18th, Mark Lynch 20th, and Taylor Purdy 27th in the 37 sled field.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 John Daly USA 5.03 4.99 54.25 54.31 1:48.56
2 Pavel Kulikov RUS 4.95 4.93 54.41 54.92 1:49.33
3 Joseph Luke Cecchini ITA 5.00 5.01 54.46 54.94 1:49.40
4 Alexander Auer AUT 5.10 5.09 54.54 55.13 1:49.67
5 John Farrow AUS 5.24 5.19 54.92 54.90 1:49.82
6 Vladislav Marchenkov RUS 5.09 5.08 55.23 54.65 1:49.88
7 Marcus Wyatt GBR 4.95 4.98 54.87 55.28 1:50.15
8 Kyle Brown USA 4.96 5.04 54.43 55.82 1:50.25
8 Seunggi Jung KOR 4.95 4.96 54.95 55.30 1:50.25
10 Andy White CAN 4.84 4.86 54.87 55.40 1:50.27
11 Nicholas Timmings AUS 5.02 5.04 55.08 55.60 1:50.68
12 Allen Blackwell USA 5.27 5.27 55.27 55.54 1:50.81
13 Junhyeon Kim KOR 4.91 4.94 55.18 55.93 1:51.11
14 Wenqiang Geng CHN 5.04 5.01 55.74 55.52 1:51.26
15 Jisoo Kim KOR 4.89 4.89 55.76 55.67 1:51.43
16 Andrew Blaser USA 5.06 4.99 55.81 55.72 1:51.53
17 Adam Edelman ISR 5.26 5.20 56.09 55.62 1:51.71
18 Kyle Murray CAN 4.99 4.95 55.52 56.36 1:51.88
19 Nicholas Rettenmyer ITA 5.29 5.26 55.78 56.20 1:51.98
20 Mark Lynch CAN 5.08 5.06 55.69 56.56 1:52.25
21 Wenhao Chen CHN 5.05 56.17
21 Dean Timmings AUS 5.22 56.29
23 Toshiki Kuroiwa JPN 5.06 56.34
24 Jeff Bauer LUX 5.37 56.61
25 Kang Yang CHN 5.01 56.64
25 Seunghyeok Nam KOR 5.14 56.67
27 Taylor Purdy CAN 5.20 56.92
28 Lawrence Sidney ISR 5.50 57.06
29 Husileng Mr CHN 5.52 57.11
30 Tatsuro Matsubara JPN 5.46 57.33
31 Peter Makrides AUS 5.47 57.38
32 Anthony Watson JAM 5.12 57.55
33 Joel Seligstein ISR 5.33 57.60
34 Marin Bangiev BUL 5.56 57.95
35 Brendan Doyle IRL 5.06 58.67
36 Akwasi Frimpong GHA 5.21 59.94
37 Sebastian Uprimny COL 5.45 60.22
DNS Kenny Howard GBR DNS
DNS Alex Hanssen NOR DNS