Wengang Yan Wins First IBSF Gold

December 7, 2018 ken Skeleton News 0

From Königssee, GER

(Dec. 7, 2018) – Wengang Yan won China’s first European Cup gold medal, beating out EC point leader Fabian Küchler to win.

Küchler was the quickest in the first heat in Königssee, and put down a good second run. Yan, however, had the quickest run of the race and it was enough to edge Küchler by .07 seconds and win gold.

German Cedric Renner finished third, with Lukas Nydegger, Vladislav Semenov and Artem Drozdov rounding out the top six.

Americans Austin Florian and Mike Rogals finished eighth and 17th, respectively.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Wengang Yan CHN 4.75 4.68 51.58 51.27 1:42.85
2 Fabian Küchler GER 4.63 4.63 51.39 51.53 1:42.92
3 Cedric Renner GER 4.90 4.85 51.62 51.72 1:43.34
4 Lukas Nydegger GER 4.90 4.92 51.85 51.85 1:43.70
5 Vladislav Semenov RUS 4.72 4.70 51.88 51.91 1:43.79
6 Artem Drozdov RUS 4.82 4.76 52.32 51.69 1:44.01
7 Evgeniy Rukosuev RUS 4.76 4.76 51.53 52.52 1:44.05
8 Austin Florian USA 4.82 4.76 52.18 51.98 1:44.16
9 Wenhao Chen CHN 4.70 4.68 52.19 51.99 1:44.18
10 Samuel Maier AUT 4.92 4.89 51.63 52.56 1:44.19
11 Krists Netlaus LAT 4.76 4.72 52.14 52.09 1:44.23
12 Basil Sieber SUI 4.95 4.91 52.16 52.45 1:44.61
13 Kirill Valentovich RUS 4.96 4.94 52.34 52.38 1:44.72
14 Manuel Schwärzer ITA 4.85 4.85 52.19 52.66 1:44.85
14 Mihai Pacioianu ROU 4.69 4.65 52.55 52.30 1:44.85
16 Michal Jakobczyk POL 4.76 4.75 52.47 42.79 1:45.26
17 Mike Rogals USA 4.90 4.91 53.03 52.27 1:45.30
18 Stefan Squire GBR 4.81 4.83 52.89 42.56 1:45.45
19 Mihail Enache ROU 4.91 4.89 52.47 53.09 1:45.56
20 Alexander Schlinter AUT 4.77 4.81 53.15 52.83 1:45.98
21 Vladyslav Polvach POL 4.98 53.20
22 Lucas Defayet FRA 4.89 53.25
23 Philipp Moelter CZE 5.12 53.32
24 Elvis Veinbergs LAT 4.98 53.42
25 Samuel Keiser SUI 4.88 53.64
26 Bram Zeegers NED 5.11 54.29
27 Peter Makrides AUS 4.87 54.35
28 Nathan Jackson AUS 5.22 55.48
29 Amedeo Bagnis ITA 4.82 55.90
30 Gabriele Marchenino ITA 4.92 56.44
31 Denis Lorenčič SLO 5.15 57.10
32 Timon Drahonovsky CZE 5.32 57.51
33 Hubert Licman SLO 5.55 58.60
DNS Robin Schneider GER DNS