From Lillehammer, NOR
(December 8, 2024) – Wengang Yan took the lead from the tenth starting spot and went unchallenged throughout the remainder of the 47 slider field in Lillehammer as he took gold in the third Europe Cup race of the season.
In a one-heat race due to issues with the start grooves, Yan picked off Germany’s Felix Siebel by .01 to take the lead. Those were well ahead of everyone else as Yan took his second gold and third medal overall on the Europe Cup tour this season.
Siebel’s the only other winner in three races this year.
Austria’s Florian Auer won bronze from the second spot on the start list.
Germany’s Ludwig Mannhardt finished fourth, a hundredth ahead of Great Britain’s Laurence Bostock, and two hundredths ahead of Bostock’s teammate Jacob Salisbury, who rounded out the top six.
Behind Bostock and Salisbury, Great Britain placed four sliders in the top 25, with Kane Densley tied for 13th with Renars Jumikis on the strength of the quickest push of the race, and Matthew Alvarez in 21st with the ninth quickest start time.
Christopher Charles and Alexander Wilson finished 35th and 38th, respectively, to round out the British effort.
Fresh off a top ten finish in he previous day’s event, Nick Tucker finished 15th on Sunday. Darryl Payne finished one spot up from Saturday’s race in a tie for 25th with Germany’s Moritz Menning, while Sam Allred finished 44th.
After three races in the Europe Cup tour, Wengang Yan holds a ten point advantage over Felix Seibel. Laurence Bostock and Jacob Salisbury are third and fourth, with Ludwig Mannhardt fifth.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start | Finish |
| 1 | Wengang Yan | CHN | 10 | 4.81 | 51.49 |
| 2 | Felix Seibel | GER | 6 | 4.95 | 51.50 |
| 3 | Florian Auer | AUT | 2 | 4.93 | 51.83 |
| 4 | Ludwig Mannhardt | GER | 1 | 4.95 | 51.91 |
| 5 | Laurence Bostock | GBR | 3 | 4.77 | 51.92 |
| 6 | Jacob Salisburg | GBR | 9 | 4.76 | 51.93 |
| 7 | Stefan Röttig | GER | 4 | 4.77 | 52.02 |
| 8 | Davis Valdovskis | LAT | 19 | 4.86 | 52.11 |
| 9 | Timm Beiwinkler | GER | 14 | 4.91 | 52.12 |
| 10 | Pietro Drovanti | ITA | 12 | 4.77 | 52.44 |
| 11 | Manuel Schwärzer | ITA | 22 | 4.92 | 52.49 |
| 12 | Roujun Zheng | CHN | 7 | 4.91 | 52.60 |
| 13 | Kane Densley | GBR | 20 | 4.71 | 52.63 |
| 13 | Renars Jumikis | LAT | 15 | 4.94 | 52.63 |
| 15 | Nicholas Tucker | USA | 11 | 4.88 | 62.69 |
| 16 | Vladyslav Polyvach | POL | 16 | 4.97 | 52.70 |
| 17 | Zhongxu Lin | CHN | 5 | 4.91 | 52.72 |
| 18 | Valentino Buff | SUI | 41 | 5.19 | 52.77 |
| 19 | Joeri van Kuppeveld | NED | 13 | 4.83 | 52.84 |
| 20 | Michal Jakobczyk | POL | 24 | 4.92 | 52.85 |
| 21 | Matthew Alvarez | GBR | 17 | 4.84 | 52.90 |
| 22 | Lars Rumo | SUI | 39 | 5.14 | 52.93 |
| 22 | Hayato Kawano | JPN | 27 | 4.88 | 52.93 |
| 24 | Niels Sommer | GER | 18 | 4.94 | 52.99 |
| 25 | Moritz Menning | GER | 30 | 5.21 | 53.02 |
| 25 | Darryl Payne | USA | 29 | 4.84 | 53.02 |
| 27 | Guoqing Yu | CHN | 8 | 4.97 | 53.10 |
| 28 | Lorenzo Conti | ITA | 40 | 4.87 | 53.12 |
| 29 | Krists Turauskis | LAT | 33 | 4.94 | 53.19 |
| 30 | Theodor Bulgescu | ROU | 42 | 4.94 | 53.26 |
| 31 | Roman Tanzer | AUT | 34 | 4.96 | 53.32 |
| 32 | Maxime Mingeon | FRA | 32 | 5.11 | 53.46 |
| 33 | Guido Persoon | NED | 37 | 4.80 | 53.54 |
| 34 | Luca Ungureanu | ROU | 26 | 5.17 | 53.61 |
| 35 | Christopher Charles | GBR | 28 | 4.99 | 53.63 |
| 36 | Bor van den Berg | NED | 38 | 4.95 | 53.93 |
| 37 | Peter Jedinak | SVK | 44 | 5.20 | 53.95 |
| 38 | Alexander Wilson | GBR | 31 | 4.91 | 54.02 |
| 39 | Sander de Haan | NED | 35 | 5.00 | 54.11 |
| 40 | Lazar Mikic | SRB | 48 | 5.28 | 54.42 |
| 41 | Gidon Bante | NED | 23 | 4.94 | 54.58 |
| 42 | Anton Bergström | SWE | 36 | 5.19 | 54.79 |
| 43 | Leonid Tkachuk | UKR | 46 | 5.33 | 55.02 |
| 44 | Sam Allred | USA | 43 | 5.14 | 55.32 |
| 45 | Bogdan Despotovic | SRB | 47 | 5.45 | 56.42 |
| 46 | Anton Kovalchuk | UKR | 45 | 5.56 | 56.89 |
| 47 | Maksyn Churylovych | UKR | 49 | 5.57 | 57.84 |
| DNS | Taido Nagao | JPN | 25 | DNS | |
| DNS | Vladyslav Klymenko | UKR | 21 | DNS |