Röttig Leads German 1-2 in Bludenz

December 3, 2022 ken European Cup News, Skeleton News 0

From Bludenz, AUT

(December 3, 2022) – Germany’s Stefan Röttig held off Ludwig Mannhardt and Daniel Barefoot to win his second straight race in Bludenz.

Röttig entered the second heat in a tie with USA’s Daniel Barefoot. While Röttig had the biggest two pushes of the competition, Barefoot drove his way into the tie for the lead from .12 back off the top.

On the second run, Germany’s Ludwig Mannhardt put down a strong second run to move into the lead with Barefoot and Röttig to go. Barefoot was next, and had another solid run going, but some late trouble placed him just .03 behind Mannhardt and in the medals, but out of contention for gold.

That left Röttig, whose 4.17 start was the fastest of the race. He was the quickest at every split in the second run and finished a commanding .47 ahead of Mannhardt for his second straight gold.

The gold was the fourth European Cup gold for Röttig in his career, while the silver for Mannhardt was the first of his career despite ten straight races with a top six finish.

For Daniel Barefoot, the bronze was his second medal on the European Cup season and third top four.

Manuel Schwärzer finished fourth for Italy, .1 off of the podium. Germany’s Cedric Renner finished fifth, tying Swiss slider Vinzenz Buff.

Great Britain entered three sliders in the race, and placed all three in the back half of the top 20. Ronnie Wells and Patrick Atkin tied for 12th, while Kane Densley finished 18th.

USA’s Hunter Williams missed out on a second run in 24th.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Finish
1 Stefan Röttig GER 4 4.19 4.17 31.94 31.72 1:03.66
2 Ludwig Mannhardt GER 10 4.30 4.30 32.11 32.02 1:04.13
3 Daniel Barefoot USA 5 4.31 4.30 31.94 32.22 1:04.16
4 Manuel Schwärzer ITA 8 4.27 4.26 32.11 32.15 1:04.26
5 Cedric Renner GER 13 4.34 4.36 32.11 32.21 1:04.32
5 Vinzenz Buff SUI 14 4.40 4.38 32.17 32.15 1:04.32
7 Jean Jacques Buff LIE 6 4.43 4.42 32.24 32.22 1:04.46
8 Haifeng Zhu CHN 9 4.28 4.29 32.23 32.30 1:04.53
9 Giovanni Marchetti ITA 15 4.27 4.29 32.51 32.05 1:04.56
10 Samuel Keiser SUI 18 4.33 4.35 32.32 32.29 1:04.61
11 Marvin Moscara ITA 16 4.23 4.20 32.37 32.31 1:04.68
12 Ronnie Wells GBR 1 4.27 4.24 32.35 32.46 1:04.81
12 Patrick Atkin GBR 23 4.25 4.24 32.54 32.27 1:04.81
14 Pietro Drovanti ITA 17 4.31 4.29 32.52 32.41 1:04.93
15 Timm Beiwinkler GER 22 4.35 4.38 32.54 32.54 1:05.08
16 Qinwei Lin CHN 19 4.22 4.28 32.75 32.36 1:05.11
17 Timon Drahonovsky CZE 7 4.43 4.39 32.68 32.52 1:05.20
18 Lars Rumo SUI 25 4.43 4.40 32.60 32.71 1:05.31
19 Kane Densley GBR 20 4.26 4.33 32.93 32.51 1:05.44
20 Guido Persoon NED 29 4.26 4.25 32.68 32.88 1:05.56
21 Adrian Rodriguez ESP 11 4.37 32.94
22 Eloy Fernandez ESP 21 4.45 32.94
23 Roman Tanzer AUT 3 4.39 33.04
24 Hunter Williams USA 12 4.38 33.10
25 Joeri Van Kuppeveld NED 26 4.29 33.12
26 Bor Van Den Berg NED 33 4.52 33.57
27 Gidon Bante NED 27 4.52 33.59
28 Theodor Buligescu ROU 28 4.53 33.69
28 Maxime Mingeon FRA 2 4.52 33.69
30 Gabriel Berger AUS 24 4.78 33.76
31 Luca Ungureanu ROU 30 4.62 33.91
32 Javier Basas ESP 35 4.47 34.16
33 Lazar Mikic SRB 32 4.68 34.66
34 Marko Stipanovic CRO 34 4.63 34.98
DNS Peter Jedinak SVK 36 DNS
DNS Marin Bangiev BUL 31 DNS