Röttig Leads German 1-2 in Bludenz

From Bludenz, AUT

(December 1, 2023) – Germany’s Stefan Röttig edged out teammate Cedric Renner to win the IBSF Europe Cup skeleton opener in Bludenz.

Röttig trailed Renner by .04 after the first heat despite out-starting his teammate by .08, with Great Britain’s Laurence Bostock in third only .05 back.

In the second heat Bostock had trouble on the back half of the 700 meter track and fell well out of medal contention, leaving the battle for gold between Röttig and Renner.

Röttig’s second effort was quicker than his first, and enough to take the lead by nearly .2 over China’s Wenqiang Geng. That left Renner between Röttig and gold.

Renner’s start matched his first and his splits were close to his first but he just wasn’t quite able to keep pace with Röttig as Röttig tolk gold by .05 over Renner.

Geng leaped up from fourth to win bronze, while Pietro Drovanti scored a career-best finish in fourth.

Great Britain’s Kane Densley and Germany’s Lukas Nydegger rounded out the top six.

Bostock fell back to ninth after issues in his second heat.

America’s Nick Tucker finished 17th in his first start outside of North America, while teammate Hunter Williams finished three spots back in 20th.

Results:

Pos	Name	Nation	Bib	Start 1	Start 2	Run 1	Run 2	Finish
1	Stefan Röttig	GER	1	4.24	4.26	32.16	32.13	1:04.29
2	Cedric Renner	GER	26	4.32	4.32	32.12	32.22	1:04.34
3	Wenqiang Geng	CHN	25	4.32	4.33	32.19	32.29	1:04.48
4	Pietro Drovanti	ITA	15	4.21	4.23	32.27	32.27	1:04.54
5	Kane Densley	GBR	28	4.24	4.29	32.34	32.32	1:04.66
6	Lukas Nydegger	GER	21	4.37	4.42	32.37	32.41	1:04.78
7	Joeri van Kuppeveld	NED	2	4.20	4.21	32.43	32.38	1:04.81
8	Timm Beiwinkler	GER	4	4.37	4.36	32.41	32.42	1:04.83
9	Laurence Bostock	GBR	24	4.24	4.27	32.17	32.67	1:04.84
10	Edrik Langer	GER	17	4.36	4.34	32.55	32.33	1:04.88
11	Qinwei Lin	CHN	27	4.23	4.21	32.77	32.13	1:04.90
12	Niels Sommer	GER	16	4.42	4.38	32.58	32.49	1:05.07
13	Basil Sieber	SUI	31	4.42	4.44	32.58	32.52	1:05.10
14	Giovanni Marchetti	ITA	6	4.25	4.27	32.32	32.92	1:05.24
15	Yaroslav Lavreniuk	UKR	19	4.45	4.41	32.77	32.63	1:05.40
16	Guido Persoon	nED	20	4.26	4.25	32.81	32.79	1:05.60
17	Nicholas Tucker	USA	11	4.33	4.32	32.73	32.88	1:05.61
18	Gabriele Marenchino	ITA	35	4.26	4.28	32.65	33.01	1:05.66
19	Lars Rumo	SUI	22	4.42	4.44	33.08	32.72	1:05.80
20	Hunter Williams	USA	5	4.31	4.27	32.95	32.92	1:05.87
21	Bor van den Berg	NED	32	4.31	4.35	33.11	32.83	1:05.94
22	Chun-Hung Chiang	TPE	9	4.43	4.57	32.90	33.16	1:06.06
23	Gidon Bante	NED	13	4.40	4.44	32.99	33.23	1:06.22
24	Roman Tanzer	AUT	18	4.30	4.32	32.96	33.30	1:06.26
25	Eloy Fernandez	ESP	23	4.45	4.44	32.96	33.43	1:06.39
26	Maxime Mingeon	FRA	8	4.48		33.28
27	Peter Jedinak	SVK	30	4.58		33.52
28	Felix de Wit	NED	7	4.60		33.86
29	Marko Vincic	SRB	14	4.72		34.02
30	Javier Basas	ESP	29	4.53		34.08
31	Ezra Verboom	NED	36	4.34		34.16
32	Vladyslav Klymenko	UKR	33	4.51		34.19
33	Lorenzo Conti	ITA	12	4.34		34.26
34	Leonik Tkachuk	UKR	10	4.87		35.27
35	Kostiantyn Dziuba	UKR	3	4.95		36.88
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