Nydegger Cruises to Lillehammer Gold

January 12, 2024 ken European Cup News, Skeleton News 0

From Lillehammer, NOR

(January 12, 2024) – Lukas Nydegger continued a podium streak on Friday as he took gold on the 1994 Olympic track in Lillehammer.

Nydegger took a sizeable early lead over teammate Cedric Renner into the second heat, with a handful of sliders all in contention for medals behind them.

In the second heat Laurence Bostock threw down the second best run of the second heat, and that was enough to catapult the British slider from fourth to no worse than second with Nydegger still to come.

Nydegger’s second slide was as good as his first, and his two downtimes were the two quickest of the race on his way to a .7 second victory over Bostock.

The German’s win was his fifth straight medal in six Europe Cup races.

Bostock took silver, while Wenqiang Geng finished third, edging out Renner by .04 for the final podium spot.

Renner finished fourth, Germany’s Stefan Röttig finished fifth, while China’s Haifeng Zhu took sixth.

Kane Densley and Patrick Atkin finished 14th and 15th to complete the British effort.

For the United States, Bradley Nicol took the top spot for the three athletes entered with a 20th place finish. Nick Tucker finished three spots back in 23rd, while Darryl Payne struggled to match his previous day’s effort and finished 27th.

Allen Blackwell, making his second start of the season, finished 31st, while Jonathan Yaw continued a solid season for Malaysia in 16th.

With two races to go in the 2023/2024 Europe Cup men’s skeleton season, Cedric Renner leads Lukas Nydegger by two points. Stefan Röttig is third, 48 points out of the lead and contending for a German sweep of the top three spots. Wenqiang Geng and Laurence Bostock are fourth and fifth, respectively.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Finish
1 Lukas Nydegger GER 9 4.87 4.85 51.30 51.53 1:42.83
2 Laurence Bostock GBR 10 4.76 4.72 51.72 51.81 1:43.53
3 Wenqiang Geng CHN 11 4.83 4.83 51.67 52.02 1:43.69
4 Cedric Renner GER 4 4.92 4.90 51.62 52.11 1:43.73
5 Stefan Röttig GER 6 4.74 4.73 51.83 51.95 1:43.78
6 Haifeng Zhu CHN 15 4.80 4.76 51.77 52.08 1:43.85
7 Qinwei Lin CHN 13 4.70 4.73 51.92 51.94 1:43.86
8 Ludwig Mannhardt GER 19 4.92 4.87 51.97 51.98 1:43.95
9 Timm Beiwlinker GER 7 4.94 4.95 52.00 52.15 1:44.15
10 Giovanni Marchetti ITA 12 4.82 4.80 52.29 52.29 1:44.58
11 Cedrik Langer GER 8 4.92 4.87 52.25 52.57 1:44.82
12 Pietro Drovanti ITA 5 4.70 4.72 52.31 52.52 1:44.83
13 Timon Drahonovsky CZE 22 5.06 5.12 52.49 52.64 1:45.13
14 Kane Densley GBR 14 4.78 4.78 52.95 52.36 1:45.31
15 Patrick Atkin GBR 23 4.81 4.78 52.85 52.55 1:45.40
16 Jonathan Yaw MAS 32 4.97 4.98 53.25 52.62 1:45.87
17 Gabriele Marenchino ITA 21 4.84 4.78 53.00 53.11 1:46.11
18 Lars Rumo SUI 17 5.07 5.05 52.76 53.42 1:46.18
19 Nicholas Timmings AUS 30 5.01 5.02 53.20 53.00 1:46.20
20 Bradley Nicol USA 1 4.86 4.82 52.96 53.32 1:46.28
21 Vladyslav Polyvach POL 29 5.00 4.96 53.14 53.18 1:46.32
22 Joeri van Kuppeveld NED 18 4.74 4.74 53.27 53.27 1:46.54
23 Nicholas Tucker USA 16 4.91 4.89 53.30 53.26 1:46.56
24 Maxime Mingeon FRA 27 5.07 5.01 53.32 53.26 1:46.58
24 Roman Tanzer AUT 25 4.92 4.89 53.38 53.20 1:46.58
26 Andrea Monti ITA 24 4.84 53.40
27 Darryl Payne USA 31 4.98 53.46
28 Lin-Wei Peng TPE 33 5.02 53.55
29 Eloy Fernandez ESP 3 5.06 53.63
30 Lorenzo Conti ITA 28 4.96 53.86
31 Allen Blackwell FRA 2 5.35 53.97
32 Bor van den Berg NED 26 4.91 54.24
33 Guido Persoon NED 20 5.16 54.79
34 Leonid Tkachuk UKR 35 5.65 57.32
35 Dostiantyn Dzuba UKR 34 5.72 57.68
DNS Yaroslav Lavreniuk UKR 38 DNS
DNS Vladyslav Klymenko UKR 39 DNS
DNS Sander de Haan NED 36 DNS
DNS Felix de Wit NED 37 DNS