Bagnis Wins Skeleton Gold for Italy

December 15, 2019 ken Skeleton News 0

From Königssee, GER

Dec. 15, 2019 – Amedeo Bagnis became the first Italian to win men’s skeleton gold in European Cup in over a half a decade, beating a massive field in Königssee.

Bagnis was the quickest off the top in both heats, and held a .37 second lead over Russian Vladislav Semenov going into the second heat of competition. On that second run both Bagnis and Semenov failed to match their first run efforts, but Bagnis carried enough of a lead to hold off Germany’s Cedric Renner by .13 to win gold.

Bagnis had never finished in the top ten in any IBSF competition since his first race in November of 2018, with a career best of 11th in Winterberg to start the 2019/2020 season.

Krists Netlaus jumped up from fifth to win bronze for Latvia, edging out Germany’s Felix Seibel by .02 for the spot. Seibel’s second heat run tied for the fastest of the competition with Bagnis’ first run.

Lukas Nydegger finished fifth for Germany, while Vladislav Semenov fell from second to sixth in the second heat.

The United States’ Austin McCrary was the lone American in the field, he moved up from 13th to finish 12th in the 41 sled field.

Ben Fulker led the way for Great Britain with a 13th place run, jumping up from 15th. Matt Weston and Laurence Bostock finished 21st and 23rd to round out the British effort.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Amedeo Bagnis ITA 13 4.58 4.56 50.97 51.38 1:42.35
2 Cedric Renner GER 19 4.88 4.87 51.35 51.13 1:42.48
3 Krists Netlaus LAT 5 4.70 4.66 51.44 51.06 1:42.50
4 Felix Seibel GER 6 4.85 4.79 51.55 50.97 1:42.52
5 Lukas Nydegger GER 9 4.83 4.83 51.40 51.15 1:42.55
6 Vladislav Semenov RUS 10 4.70 4.66 51.34 51.27 1:42.61
7 Mattia Gaspari ITA 16 4.81 4.79 51.74 51.42 1:43.16
8 Mihail Enache ROU 4 4.79 4.74 51.87 51.31 1:43.18
9 Ludwig Mannhardt GER 20 4.94 4.91 51.77 51.49 1:43.26
10 Alexander Schlintner AUT 12 4.83 4.80 51.62 51.78 1:43.40
11 Hiroatsu Takahashi JPN 15 4.80 4.74 51.85 51.76 1:43.61
12 Austin McCrary USA 21 5.05 5.04 52.02 51.83 1:43.85
13 Ben Fulker GBR 25 4.73 4.75 52.18 51.72 1:43.90
14 Dmitriy Gizitdinov RUS 14 4.78 4.74 52.15 51.87 1:44.02
15 Ronald Auderset SUI 7 4.75 4.73 52.81 51.61 1:44.42
16 Philipp Moelter CZE 30 5.04 5.10 52.51 52.03 1:44.54
16 Elvis Veinbergs LAT 17 4.88 4.84 52.74 51.80 1;44.54
18 Artem Drozdov RUS 18 4.80 4.80 52.25 52.42 1:44.67
19 Jean Buff SUI 29 5.02 5.01 52.69 52.19 1:44.88
20 Vladyslav Polyvach POL 22 5.00 52.82
21 Vladislav Marchenkov RUS 8 4.87 52.99
21 Matt Weston GBR 24 4.69 52.99
23 Laurence Bostock GBR 23 4.79 53.02
24 Toshiki Kuroiwa JPN 31 4.85 53.21
25 Ludvig Sahlin SWE 26 5.04 53.30
26 Martins uiznieks LAT 27 4.82 53.34
27 Gabriel Marenchino ITA 28 4.76 53.66
28 Kevin Akeret SUI 36 5.15 53.78
29 Maximilian Goldmann SUI 1 5.12 54.02
30 Wicher Nijkamp NED 32 4.88 54.15
30 Rasmus ohansen DEN 3 5.01 54.15
32 Sandro Mai AUT 35 4.96 54.33
33 Gregory Martin RSA 2 5.07 54.51
34 Nathan Jackson AUS 33 5.26 54.71
35 Pietro Drovanti ITA 34 4.93 54.78
36 Denis Lorencic SLO 41 5.20 54.79
37 Timo n Drahonovsky CZE 40 5.40 56.82
38 Christofer Eriksson SWE 38 4.76 57.04
39 Amadou Krubally GAM 37 4.77 58.25
40 Roberth Klarqvist SWE 39 5.23 66.64
DNF Lucas Defayet FRA 11 4.86 4.83 51.93 DNF