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The overall points for the North American Cup are below.
Women’s Skeleton
As it is with most overall points titles in the IBSF, Veronica Day’s key to winning the North American Cup women’s skeleton title was consistency. The American never finished outside of the top six in all eight races, scoring six medals along the way. The overall title is the first for Day.
Canadian Jaclyn LaBerge was well on her way to taking the NAC title ahead of Day, but didn’t race in the final two events in Lake Placid. Still, her fantastic start to the season was good enough to place her second overall on the strength of two gold medals in Calgary, and never finishing worse than second.
Rayoung Mun was the top-finishing junior on the women’s skeleton NAC tour, with the Korean finishing third overall. Mun got better as the season went on, culminating with a bronze medal in the final race of the season in Lake Placid.
Pos | Name | Nation | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
1 | Veronica Day | USA | 2 (Lake Placid 2x) | 6 (Whistler) | 435 |
2 | Jaclyn LaBerge | CAN | 1 (Calgary 2x) | 2 (4x) | 410 |
3 | Rayoung Mun (J) | KOR | 3 (Lake Placid) | 9 (2x) | 341 |
4 | Kimberley Bos (J) | NED | 1 (4x) | 8 (Whistler) | 336 |
5 | Sophia Jeong (J) | KOR | 6 (2x) | 11 (Calgary) | 288 |
6 | Jaclyn Narracott | AUS | 2 (Calgary 2x) | 4 (Lake Placid 2x) | 230 |
7 | Leslie Stratton | USA | 8 (2x) | 16 (Calgary) | 190 |
8 | Katie Tannenbaum | ISV | 4 (Park City) | 11 (Whistler) | 186 |
9 | Nozomi Komuro | JPN | 4 (Whistler) | 8 (Calgary 2x) | 167 |
10 | Grace Dafoe (J) | CAN | 5 (Calgary 2x) | 8 (Park City) | 156 |
Men’s Skeleton
Ander Mirambell made history in the 2015/2016 season as the first ever Spanish slider to win an overall IBSF title, clinching the North American Cup title despite only racing in six of the eight events. Mirambell slid double-duty in both the World Cup and North American cup, causing him to miss the two NAC races in whistler. In the other six races he won five gold medals, and despite one eighth place finish in Park City, Mirambell finished eight points ahead of the competition.
Alex Ivanov finished second in the overall points, with one poor finish in Whistler the difference between he and Mirambell. The American was otherwise consistent with seven finishes in the top-five, but the 12th place finish in Whistler moved him to second overall.
John Farrow finished third, despite missing the final two races in Lake Placid. The Aussie slider won one gold medal, and never finished outside of the top three in the races he competed in. Jisoo Kim was the top-finishing junior in fourth.
Pos | Name | Nation | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
1 | Ander Mirambell | ESP | 1 (5x) | 8 (Park City) | 411 |
2 | Alex Ivanov | USA | 2 (Lake Placid 2x) | 12 (Whistler) | 403 |
3 | John Farrow | AUS | 1 (Park City) | 3 (2x) | 380 |
4 | Jisoo Kim (J) | KOR | 3 (Park City) | 16 (Whistler 2x) | 288 |
5 | Rhys Thornbury | NZL | 1 (Whistler 2x) | 4 (Calgary) | 255 |
6 | Junhyeon Kim | KOR | 3 (Lake Placid) | 17 (Whistler) | 243 |
7 | Katsuyuki Miyajima | JPN | 2 (Whistler) | 13 (Calgary) | 236 |
8 | Nicholas Timmings | AUS | 2 (Park City) | 14 (Calgary) | 226 |
9 | Allen Blackwell | USA | 7 (Whistler) | 15 (Calgary) | 194 |
10 | Trent Kraychir | USA | 5 (Whistler 2x) | 13 (Park City) | 190 |
Women’s Bobsled
American Nicole Vogt won the overall women’s bobsled title by just four points over Canadian Alysia Rissling. Vogt never finished outside of the top six on her way to her first overall title.
Rissling had a DNS in one of the races in Whistler, scoring her 0 points for the event. Had she been able to make it down in her second run, Rissling would have taken the title from Vogt. Her second place finish, however, was the best average finish of the tour, never finishing outside of the medals save for the one DNS.
Yooran Kim was the top-finishing junior on the circuit, with the Korean finishing with a silver medal in Lake Placid to keep ahead of teammate Seonhye Lee.
Pos | Name | Nation | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
1 | Nicole Vogt | USA | 1 (Park City) | 6 (3x) | 776 |
2 | Alysia Rissling | CAN | 1 (Lake Placid) | 3 (Calgary) | 772 |
3 | Yooran Kim (J) | KOR | 2 (Lake Placid) | 8 (2x) | 718 |
4 | Seonhye Lee (J) | KOR | 3 (Whistler 2x) | 11 (Calgary) | 692 |
5 | Heather Paes | BRA | 5 (Whistler) | 10 (Calgary) | 660 |
6 | Julia Corrente (J) | CAN | 2 (Whistler) | 8 (Park City) | 570 |
7 | Katie Eberling | USA | 1 (Park City) | 11 (Calgary) | 502 |
8 | Christine de Bruin | CAN | 1 (3x) | 4 (Whistler) | 456 |
9 | Brittany Reinbolt | USA | 1 (Whistler) | 6 (Calgary) | 414 |
10 | Kristi Koplin | USA | 3 (Lake Placid 2x) | 5 (Calgary) | 392 |
2-man Bobsled
Nick Poloniato was the top finisher in two-man bobsled. The Canadian won gold twice, and only finished out of the medals once (Race #7 in Lake Placid). His consistency, coupled with American Codie Bascue missing the two races in Whistler, led to an overall championship for Poloniato.
Youngjin Suk was the top finishing junior, taking second overall. The Korean slider scored two medals on the season and never finished outside of the top ten.
Justin Olsen of the United States was the top-scoring American, finishing third overall. Olsen benefited from a combination of some extra ice time over in Europe and the final four races in the United States to score top-four finishes in all four American races.
Codie Bascue won the most races on the season, only failing to score gold once in the six events he raced in. Bascue didn’t score points in Whistler, and the lack of any points there dropped him down to fifth overall.
Pos | Name | Nation | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
1 | Nick Poloniato | CAN | 1 (Whistler 2x) | 4 (Lake Placid) | 870 |
2 | Youngjin Suk (J) | KOR | 3 (Park City 2x) | 8 (Calgary) | 744 |
3 | Justin Olsen | USA | 2 (Lake Placid) | 8 (2x) | 736 |
4 | Dakarai Kongela | USA | 3 (Whistler) | 9 (Calgary) | 710 |
5 | Codie Bascue (J) | USA | 1 (5x) | 3 (Calgary) | 702 |
6 | Taylor Austin (J) | CAN | 4 (Whistler) | 17 (Calgary) | 604 |
7 | Lucas Mata | AUS | 7 (Park City 2x) | 14 (Calgary) | 596 |
8 | Christiano Paes | BRA | 8 (2x) | 14 (Calgary) | 568 |
9 | Heath Spence | AUS | 3 (Whistler) | 12 (Calgary) | 470 |
10 | Ivo de Bruin | NED | 2 (Whistler 2x) | 4 (Calgary) | 408 |
Four-Man Bobsled
Codie Bascue won the final overall title available in the 2015/2016 IBSF season, taking home the overall North American Cup four-man title. The American made it three of five overall NAC titles going to Americans, winning six medals and never finishing outside of the top five. Bascue was also the top-finishing junior on the season.
Two-man champion Nick Poloniato didn’t really hit his four-man stride until about four races into the season, finishing second overall. The Canadian’s performance in both two and four-man sliding did, however, give him the combined title ahead of Bascue by a handful of points.
Youngjin Suk finished third on the season for Korea, as Korea looks to strengthen its four-man program.
Pos | Name | Nation | Best Finish | Worst Finish | Points |
1 | Codie Bascue (J) | USA | 1 (2x) | 4 (Calgary) | 652 |
2 | Nick Poloniato | CAN | 3 (3x) | 10 (Calgary) | 498 |
3 | Youngjin Suk (J) | KOR | 4 (Lake Placid) | 10 (Calgary 2x) | 434 |
4 | Hunter Church (J) | USA | 3 (Lake Placid) | 11 (Calgary) | 366 |
5 | Geoffrey Gadbois (J) | USA | 5 (Park City) | 9 (Calgary) | 328 |
6 | Loic Costerg | FRA | 1 (Calgary) | 5 (Calgary) | 322 |
7 | Rudy Rinaldi (J) | MON | 1 (Calgary) | 6 (Calgary) | 304 |
8 | Chris Spring | CAN | 1 (Calgary) | 6 (Calgary) | 300 |
8 | Lucas Mata | AUS | 6 (Park City) | 12 (Calgary) | 300 |
10 | Kaillie Humphries | CAN | 3 (Calgary 2x) | 5 (Calgary) | 296 |
10 | Taylor Austin (J) | CAN | 8 (Park City 2x) | 11 (Calgary 2x) | 296 |