2012 FIBT World Championships - Women's Skeleton

From Lake Placid, USA

Overcoming an uncharacteristically slow push, Shelley Rudman leads after the first heat at Lake Placid. The British athlete leads all of the usual suspects, with American Katie Uhlaender currently just .06 back. Uhlaender had a tough final section of the trac that killed off a .10 lead going into the final split.

Behind Rudman and Uhlaender, Melissa Hollingsworth is within a tenth of moving up, while Katharina Heinz, Anja Huber, Lizzy Yarnold, Marion Thees, Lucy Katherine Chaffer and Amy Williams are all stacked up from 4th to 9th.

American Anne O’Shea is 13th, within .15 of a top 10, while Canadians Amy Gough and Sarah Reid are 12th and 14th.

Pos	Name	Nation	Draw	Run 1
1	Shelley Rudman	GBR	3	55.48
2	Katie Uhlaender	USA	1	55.54
3	Melissa Hollingsworth	CAN	5	55.64
4	Katharina Heinz	GER	7	55.83
5	Anja Huber	GER	4	55.90
6	Elizabeth Yarnold	GBR	9	55.95
7	Marion Thees	GER	2	55.98
7	Lucy Katherine Chaffer	AUS	8	55.98
9	Amy Williams	GBR	17	56.01
10	Emma Lincoln-Smith	AUS	11	56.11
11	Katharine Eustace	NZL	14	56.12
12	Amy Gough	CAN	6	56.15
13	Anne O’Shea	USA	10	56.20
14	Sarah Reid	CAN	12	56.23
15	Janine Flock	AUT	15	56.30
16	Nozomi Komuro	JPN	19	56.37
17	Olga Potylitsina	RUS	13	56.38
18	Rose McGrandle	GBR	18	56.41
19	Svetlana Vasilyeva	RUS	21	56.46
20	Maria Orlova	RUS	16	56.57
21	Marina Gilardoni	SUI	22	56.87
22	Barbara Hosch	SUI	23	57.38
23	Joska Le Conte	NED	20	57.44
24	Michaela Glaesser	CZE	25	57.63
25	Maria Marinela Mazilu	ROU	24	58.00
26	Rindy Loucks	JAM	27	58.70
27	Katie Tannenbaum	ISV	26	59.26