From Durham, USA
(December 2, 2024) – The Asian Cup wrapped up its relatively short season at the beginning of December with the fourth race in Yanqing. Below are the season’s top five in both men’s and women’s skeleton.
Men’s Skeleton
The Asian Cup kicked off with large fields in the first two races of men’s skeleton, with the bulk of World Cup athletes competing in Pyeongchang’s Asian Cup events as a warmup to their first two World Cup races. The end result was a high point total for two races and lower points for the remainder of the tour.
Chanhyuk, both the top point-getter and the top junior on the season, scored 110 points with a silver medal in the season opener and won one of the two races without World Cup athletes to take a point lead at the halfway point of the season that held throughout the remainder of the four races in Yanqing.
Zhongxu Lin finished third in all three races in Yanqing to make up ground after a disappointing 29th place finish in both of the two opening rounds in Pyeongchang, but couldn’t close the gap on his Korean counterpart and finished second. Teammate Wengang Yan, the Olympic bronze medalist in Yanqing, won three of his six races on the season to finished third overall.
Taiwan’s Chun-Hung Chiang and China’s Guoqing Yu rounded out the top five. Yu finished in second in all four races he competed in to tie with Yeonsu Shin of Korea, but held the “best final race” tiebreaker.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Points | Starts | Best Finish | Worst Finish |
| 1 | Chanhyuk Yeo (J) | KOR | 387 | 8 | 1 (Pyeongchang 4) | 13 (Yanqing 1) |
| 2 | Zhongxu Lin (J) | CHN | 341 | 8 | 3 (Yanqing x4) | 29 (Pyeongchang x2) |
| 3 | Wengang Yan | CHN | 317 | 6 | 1 (Ya x2 / Py 3) | 18 (Pyeongchang 2) |
| 4 | Chun-Hung Chiang | TPE | 249 | 8 | 4 (Yanqing 3) | 36 (Pyeongchang 1) |
| 5 | Guoqing Yu (J) | CHN | 248 | 4 | 2 (Yanqing x4) | 2 (Yanqing x4) |
| 6 | Yeonsu Shin (J) | KOR | 248 | 8 | 2 (Pyeongchang 3) | 28 (Pyeongchang 1) |
| 7 | Christopher Grotheer | GER | 240 | 2 | 1 (Pyeongchang x2) | 1 (Pyeongchang x2) |
| 8 | Lin-Wei Peng | TPE | 240 | 8 | 5 (Pyeongchang x2) | 25 (Pyeongchang 2) |
| 9 | Ruojun Zheng (J) | CHN | 235 | 4 | 1 (Yanqing x2) | 4 (Yanqing x2) |
| 10 | Mattia Gaspari | ITA | 200 | 2 | 3 (Pyeongchang x2) | 3 (Pyeongchang x2) |
Women’s Skeleton
The women’s side of the Asian Cup was all but over and done after two races. The large 40-plus fields paid out maximum points. Once the World Cup athletes moved onto the World Cup, the fields for the women’s skeleton program were too small to make up even if someone won out. Which nobody did.
The closest an Asian Cup regular got to the top was Guanshuo Wang, the top junior who finished the season in fifth place. Yanqi Zhu finished ninth overall with six races under her belt, while Sujung Hong competed in the first two and last two races and finished tenth.
At the top of the points, partners and teammates Nicole Silveira and Kim Meylemans tied in points, with Silveira taking the season title with the tiebreaker based on top most recent finish. Anna Fernstädt finished the season in third, Kimberley Bos fourth, then Wang in fifth.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Points | Starts | Best Finish | Worst Finish |
| 1 | Nicole Silveira | BRA | 230 | 2 | 1 (Pyeongchang 2) | 2 (Pyeongchang 1) |
| 2 | Kim Meylemans | BEL | 230 | 2 | 1 (Pyeongchang 1) | 2 (Pyeongchang 2) |
| 3 | Anna Fernstädt | CZE | 192 | 2 | 3 (Pyeongchang 1) | 4 (Pyeongchang 2) |
| 4 | Kimberley Bos | NED | 176 | 2 | 4 (Pyeongchang 1) | 5 (Pyeongchang 2) |
| 5 | Guanshuo Wang (J) | CHN | 165 | 8 | 1 (Yanqing x2) | 40 (Pyeongchang 2) |
| 6 | Jacqueline Pfeifer | GER | 162 | 2 | 3 (Pyeongchang 2) | 8 (Pyeongchang 1) |
| 7 | Mystique Ro | USA | 152 | 2 | 6 (Pyeongchang x2) | 6 (Pyeongchang x2) |
| 8 | Dan Zhao (J) | CHN | 146 | 2 | 5 (Pyeongchang 1) | 8 (Pyeongchang 2) |
| 9 | Ynaqi Zhu | CHN | 140 | 6 | 1 (Yan 2, Pye 3) | 27 (Pyeongchang 1) |
| 10 | Sujung Hong | KOR | 128 | 4 | 1 (Yanqing 3) | 17 (Pyeongchang 2) |