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Jan. 8, 2020 – The North American Cup finished up it’s relatively quick season with three races in Lake Placid, ending with 4-man on January 8, 2020. Below are the results of each discipline.
Men’s Skeleton
Ander Mirambell won his second North American Cup men’s skeleton title of his career. Though the Spanish slider only medaled once (Race 6 in Lake Placid), he never finished out of the top six, finishing fifth five times to start the season.
American Chris Strup finished second, 24 points behind Mirambell. Strump started his season slow, but finished strong with two silver medals in Lake Placid to finish one point ahead of American Samoa’s Nathan Crumpton.
Crumpton won three gold medals in the five races he entered on his way to third overall.
China’s Zheng Yin finished the year in fourth, with Rin Kinoshita fifth as the top junior on tour. Dean Timmings finished the season sixth in points.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Starts | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
| 1 | Ander Mirambell | ESP | 8 | 3 (Lake Placid) | 6 (Lake Placid) | 370 |
| 2 | Chris Strup | USA | 8 | 2 (Lake Placid x2) | 13 (Lake Placid) | 346 |
| 3 | Nathan Crumpton | ASA | 5 | 1 (Park City x3) | 3 (Lake Placid) | 345 |
| 4 | Zheng Yin | CHN | 7 | 2 (Park City) | 8 (Lake Placid x2) | 272 |
| 5 | Rin Kinoshita (J) | JPN | 8 | 4 (Park City) | 22 (Lake Placid) | 255 |
| 6 | Dean Timmings | AUS | 8 | 7 (Park City) | 14 (Park City) | 250 |
| 7 | Daniel Barefoot | USA | 5 | 2 (Lake Placid) | 7 (Lake Placid) | 248 |
| 8 | Wenhao Chen (J) | CHN | 3 | 1 (Lake Placid) | 1 (Lake Placid) | 225 |
| 9 | Peter Makrides | AUS | 8 | 7 (Park City) | 16 (Lake Placid x2) | 224 |
| 10 | Zilong Zhu (J) | CHN | 5 | 3 (Lake Placid x2) | 13 (Lake Placid) | 214 |
Women’s Skeleton
Korea’s Eunji Kim won her first North American Cup title, beating Brazil’s Nicole Silveira by 72 points to take top honors.
Kim finished the season with five straight medals (two silver, three bronze), her best five finishes of her career..
Silveira’s three top six finishes in Park City led to her second place overall finish, while the United States’ Mystique Ro won two gold medals in five races on her way third.
Americans Lauren McDonald and Michelle Toukan finished fourth and fifth overall, while the US Virgin Islands’ Katie Tannenbaum finished sixth overall despite missing the first two races of the season.
Jeonghyeok Lee was the top finishing junior in seventh.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Starts | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
| 1 | Eunji Kim | KOR | 8 | 2 (LP, PC) | 18 (Lake Placid) | 373 |
| 2 | Nicole Silveira | BRA | 8 | 4 (Park City) | 13 (Lake Placid) | 301 |
| 3 | Mystique Ro | USA | 5 | 1 (Lake Placid x2) | 6 (Lake Placid) | 290 |
| 4 | Lauren McDonald | USA | 8 | 3 (Park City) | 12 (Lake Placid x2) | 287 |
| 5 | Michelle Toukan | USA | 8 | 3 (Park City) | 20 (Lake Placid) | 271 |
| 6 | Katie Tannenbaum | ISV | 6 | 2 (Park City) | 11 (Park City) | 264 |
| 7 | Jeonghyeok Lee (J) | KOR | 8 | 2 (Park City) | 21 (Lake Placid) | 259 |
| 8 | Yaingqi Zhu(J) | CHN | 4 | 1 (Park City x3) | 11 (Lake Placid) | 255 |
| 9 | Kellie Delka | PUR | 5 | 1 (Lake Placid) | 9 (Lake Placid) | 230 |
| 10 | Xiaojiao Du (J) | CHN | 7 | 5 (Park City) | 15 (Lake Placid) | 225 |
2-man Bobsled
Canadian Taylor Austin was the class of the North American Cup men’s bobsled field over the course of the 2019/2020 season. In 2-man, he won five straight races (three in Park City and two in Lake Placid) on his way to an over 200 point victory over teammate Patrick Norton.
Norton’s season started slow, but six straight top six finishes was enough to catapult him to second overall, just 28 points ahead of the United States’ Nick Cunningham.
Cunningham, making his first starts since the 2018 Olympic Games, won one gold and four medals overall in six races.
Cunningham held the tiebreaker between himself and top junior Jeff McKeen, who finished fourth overall. Great Britain’s James Brown finished fifth on the season, while Geoff Gadbois finished sixth despite only starting five races.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Starts | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
| 1 | Taylor Austin | CAN | 8 | 1 (PC x3, LP x2) | 7 (Lake Placid) | 878 |
| 2 | Patrick Norton | CAN | 8 | 3 (Lake Placid) | 16 (Lake Placid) | 658 |
| 3 | Nick Cunningham | USA | 6 | 1 (Lake Placid) | 5 (Park City) | 630 |
| 4 | Jeff McKeen (J) | CAN | 7 | 2 (Park City) | 15 (Lake Placid) | 630 |
| 5 | James Brown | GBR | 8 | 8 (Lake Placid) | 18 (Lake Placid x2) | 536 |
| 6 | Geoff Gadbois (J) | USA | 5 | 2 (Lake Placid x3) | 4 (Lake Placid) | 528 |
| 7 | Ji Hoon (J) | KOR | 5 | 4 (Park City x3) | 17 (Lake Placid) | 380 |
| 8 | Marley Linhares (J) | BRA | 4 | 3 (Park City) | 17 (Lake Placid) | 334 |
| 9 | Andrew Williams | NZL | 5 | 7 (Lake Placid x2) | 19 (Lake Placid x2) | 318 |
| 10 | Frank Del Duca | USA | 3 | 5 (Lake Placid x3) | 5 (Lake Placid x3) | 276 |
4-man Bobsled
Much like in 2-man bobsled, Taylor Austin dominated the bulk of the 2019/2020 North American Cup season. The Canadian swept both the Park City stop and the second Lake Placid stop on his way to a 200 point advantage over teammate Jeff McKeen.
McKeen, the tour’s top junior in 4-man, scored four bronze medals in his last six races.
Nick Cunningham finished third overall, finishing with a silver medal in all six 4-man races he entered.
Patrick Norton finished fourth overall, with Geoff Gadbois fifth and Bryan Berghorn sixth.
Austin also finished as the combined 2-man and 4-man champion, ahead of McKeen and Cunningham.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Starts | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
| 1 | Taylor Austin | CAN | 8 | 1 (PC x3, LP x3) | 5 (Lake Placid x2) | 904 |
| 2 | Jeff McKeen (J) | CAN | 8 | 3 (PC x3, LP) | 14 (Lake Placid x2) | 704 |
| 3 | Nick Cunningham | USA | 6 | 2 (PC x3, LP x3) | 2 (PC x3, LP x3) | 660 |
| 4 | Patrick Norton | CAN | 6 | 4 (Park City x3) | 5 (Lake Placid) | 380 |
| 5 | Geoff Gadbois (J) | USA | 4 | 3 (Lake Placid x2) | 13 (Lake Placid) | 336 |
| 6 | Bryan Berghorn | USA | 3 | 4 (Lake Placid x3) | 4 (Lake Placid x3) | 288 |
| 7 | Derek van den Brink | CAN | 3 | 5 (Park City x3) | 5 (Park City x3) | 276 |
| 8 | Shanwayne Stephsn | JAM | 3 | 6 (Park City x2) | 7 (Park City) | 260 |
| 9 | Dave Nicholls | ISR | 3 | 6 (Park City) | 7 (Park City x2) | 256 |
| 10 | Justin Kripps | CAN | 2 | 1 (Lake Placid x2) | 1 (Lake Placid x2) | 240 |
Women’s Bobsled
Canadian Kori Hol edged out American Kristi Koplin for top honors in North American Cup women bobsled. Koplin held the top spot for the majority of the season, but a bad race in the season finale for Koplin catapulted Hol to the season championship.
Koplin finished second overall, ahead of teammate Shelby Williamson, who finished third.
Melissa Lotholz finished fourth on the season, ahead of teammates Bianca Ribi and Cynthia Appiah, who finished fifth and sixth, respectively.
Ribi was the top junior on tour.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Starts | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
| 1 | Kori Hol | CAN | 8 | 2 (LP, PC x3) | 8 (Lake Placid) | 808 |
| 2 | Kristi Koplin | USA | 7 | 1 (Park City x3) | 5 (Lake Placid) | 768 |
| 3 | Shelby Williamson | USA | 8 | 4 (Lake Placid x2) | 11 (Lake Placid x2) | 688 |
| 4 | Melissa Lotholz | CAN | 7 | 3 (Park City x3) | 6 (Lake Placid x2) | 654 |
| 5 | Bianca Ribi (J) | CAN | 5 | 5 (PC x2, LP x2) | 6 (PC, LP) | 544 |
| 6 | Cynthia Appiah | CAN | 4 | 3 (Lake Placid) | 4 (Park City x3) | 390 |
| 7 | Nicole Vogt | USA | 3 | 1 (Lake Placid x3) | 1 (Lake Placid x3) | 360 |
| 8 | Ashleigh Werner | AUS | 4 | 7 (Park City x2) | 12 (Lake Placid x2) | 296 |
| 9 | Yooran Kim | KOR | 3 | 7 (Park City) | 8 (Park City x2) | 244 |
| 10 | Kaillie Humphries | USA | 2 | 1 (Lake Placid) | 2 (Lake Placid) | 230 |
