2017–18 Skeleton World Cup

The 2017–18 Skeleton World Cup was a multi-race series over a season for Skeleton. The season started on 9 November 2017 in Lake Placid, USA, and concluded on 19 January 2018 in Königssee, Germany. The World Cup is organised by the IBSF (formerly the FIBT), who also run World Cups and Championships in bobsleigh. The season was mainly sponsored by BMW.

2017–18 Skeleton World Cup

Winners
Men's	Yun Sung-bin (KOR)
Women's	Jacqueline Lölling (GER)
Competitions
Venues	8 (8 events)

Calendar

Venue	Date	Details
Lake Placid	9–10 November
Park City	17–18 November
Whistler	24–25 November
Winterberg	8 December	Men's race shortened to one run
Igls	15 December	also European Championship
Altenberg	5 January
St. Moritz	12 January
Königssee	19 January

Results

Men

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Lake Placid	Martins Dukurs  Latvia	1:47.54 (53.66 / 53.88)	Yun Sung-bin  South Korea	1:47.65 (53.76 / 53.89)	Alexander Tretiakov  Russia	1:47.71 (53.71 / 54.00)
Park City	Yun Sung-bin  South Korea	1:37.32 (48.82 / 48.50)	Martins Dukurs  Latvia	1:37.95 (49.13 / 48.82)	Axel Jungk  Germany	1:38.07 (49.34 / 48.73)
Whistler	Yun Sung-bin  South Korea	1:44.34 (51.99 / 52.35)	Nikita Tregubov  Russia	1:45.09 (52.43 / 52.66)	Tomass Dukurs  Latvia	1:45.33 (52.64 / 52.69)
Winterberg	Yun Sung-bin  South Korea	56.62	Martins Dukurs  Latvia	56.68	Dave Greszczyszyn  Canada	56.88
Igls	Martins Dukurs  Latvia	1:46.03 (53.15 / 52.88)	Yun Sung-bin  South Korea	1:46.18 (53.22 / 52.96)	Nikita Tregubov  Russia	1:46.52 (53.31 / 53.21)
Altenberg	Yun Sung-bin  South Korea	1:54.28 (57.24 / 57.04)	Alexander Tretiakov  Russia	1:54.67 (57.33 / 57.34)	Christopher Grotheer  Germany	1:55.04 (57.65 / 57.39)
St. Moritz	Yun Sung-bin  South Korea	2:14.77 (1:07.58 / 1:07.19)	Axel Jungk  Germany	2:15.64 (1:08.07 / 1:07.57)	Alexander Gassner  Germany	2:15.92 (1:08.12 / 1:07.80)
Königssee	Axel Jungk  Germany	1:41.61 (51.05 / 50.56)	Martins Dukurs  Latvia	1:41.63 (51.05 /50.58)	Tomass Dukurs  Latvia	1:41.84 (51.17 / 50.67)

Women

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Lake Placid	Janine Flock  Austria	1:50.13 (54.69 / 55.44)	Elisabeth Vathje  Canada	1:50.39 (55.10 / 55.29)	Lizzy Yarnold  Great Britain	1:50.46 (55.35 / 55.11)
Park City	Elena Nikitina  Russia	1:40.49 (50.33 / 50.16)	Tina Hermann  Germany	1:40.51 (50.29 / 50.22)	Jacqueline Lölling  Germany	1:40.72 (50.48 / 50.24)
Whistler	Jacqueline Lölling  Germany	1:48.38 (53.74 / 54.64)	Jane Channell  Canada	1:48.61 (54.03 / 54.58)	Tina Hermann  Germany	1:48.65 (54.25 / 54.40)
Winterberg	Jacqueline Lölling  Germany	1:55.86 (57.85 / 58.01)	Elisabeth Vathje  Canada	1:56.10 (58.00 / 58.10)	Elena Nikitina  Russia	1:56.11 (57.85 / 58.26)
Igls	Elena Nikitina  Russia	1:48.80 (54.41 / 54.39)	Elisabeth Vathje  Canada	1:49.38 (54.78 / 54.60)	Mirela Rahneva  Canada	1:49.44 (54.98 / 54.46)
Altenberg	Jacqueline Lölling  Germany	1:57.74 (58.50 / 59.24)	Tina Hermann  Germany	1:57.87 (58.68 / 59.19)	Anna Fernstädt  Germany	1:58.17 (58.90 / 59.27)
St. Moritz	Janine Flock  Austria	2:19.44 (1:09.94 / 1:09.50)	Tina Hermann  Germany	2:19.86 (1:10.21 / 1:09.65)	Elisabeth Vathje  Canada	2:19.89 (1:09.96 / 1:09.93)
Königssee	Jacqueline Lölling  Germany	1:44.03 (52.14 / 51.89)	Tina Hermann  Germany	1:44.21 (52.06 / 52.15)	Janine Flock  Austria	1:44.30 (52.13 / 52.17)

Standings

Men

[1]

Pos.	Racer	LPL	PAC	WHI	WIN	IGL	ALT	STM	KON	Points
1	Yun Sung-bin (KOR)	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	–	1545
2	Axel Jungk (GER)	4	3	9	6	4	8	2	1	1507
3	Tomass Dukurs (LAT)	6	4	3	5	6	6	8	3	1464
4	Martins Dukurs (LAT)	1	2	6	2	1	5	DSQ	2	1440
5	Nikita Tregubov (RUS)	5	8	2	14	3	4	6	4	1426
6	Christopher Grotheer (GER)	10	4	4	10	5	3	7	5	1408
7	Alexander Gassner (GER)	18	7	5	16	8	7	3	6	1232
8	Matthew Antoine (USA)	8	12	8	7	9	13	10	9	1184
9	Alexander Tretiakov (RUS)	3	6	–	4	34	2	4	7	1138
10	Matthias Guggenberger (AUT)	9	10	11	13	13	17	16	8	1016
11	Dave Greszczyszyn (CAN)	13	15	7	3	14	10	21	18	990
12	Dominic Parsons (GBR)	12	20	13	9	18	18	4	11	956
13	Kevin Boyer (CAN)	14	14	12	12	20	15	17	13	860
14	Rhys Thornbury (NZL)	23	9	9	22	16	16	12	24	775
15	Vladislav Marchenkov (RUS)	11	26	24	8	12	–	9	17	745
16	John Daly (USA)	17	18	29	10	11	–	14	10	728
17	Greg West (USA)	19	16	26	15	19	22	13	21	622
18	Hiroatsu Takahashi (JPN)	21	22	22	19	17	9	22	22	600
19	Jeremy Rice (GBR)	15	24	23	29	14	–	11	14	583
20	Barrett Martineau (CAN)	16	22	15	28	21	11	–	16	578
21	Ander Mirambell (ESP)	25	16	17	17	23	26	18	–	478
22	Marcus Wyatt (GBR)	–	–	–	–	10	14	20	12	452
23	Geng Wenqiang (CHN)	7	21	21	–	21	23	–	–	404
24	Vladyslav Heraskevych (UKR)	27	13	18	31	27	–	26	15	404
25	Kim Ji-soo (KOR)	–	11	16	–	7	–	–	–	400
26	Alex Hanssen (NOR)	26	31	13	26	28	27	29	20	344
27	Ronald Auderset (SUI)	30	29	28	26	29	20	19	23	324
28	John Farrow (AUS)	20	19	–	20	26	–	23	–	296
29	Riet Graf (SUI)	31	30	25	20	31	21	24	25	275
30	Alexander Auer (AUT)	–	–	–	25	25	–	27	19	186
31	Lee Han-sin (KOR)	–	–	–	18	–	–	15	–	184
32	Jack Thomas (GBR)	28	25	19	33	–	–	–	–	142
33	Joseph Luke Cecchini (ITA)	24	27	30	24	32	–	–	–	142
34	Florian Auer (AUT)	–	–	–	22	24	–	31	26	137
35	Pavel Kulikov (RUS)	–	–	–	–	–	12	–	–	128
36	Nicholas Timmings (AUS)	29	28	20	32	–	–	–	–	120
37	Katsuyuki Miyajima (JPN)	–	–	–	–	–	24	25	–	85
38	Manuel Schwaeizer (ITA)	–	–	–	30	30	25	–	–	80
39	Nathan Crumpton (USA)	–	–	–	–	–	19	–	–	74
40	Kim Jun-hyeon (KOR)	22	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	56
41	Yan Wengang (CHN)	–	–	–	–	–	–	30	27	52
42	Dean Timmings (AUS)	–	–	27	–	33	–	–	–	32
43	Patrick Rooney (CAN)	–	–	–	–	–	–	28	–	28

Women

[2]

Pos.	Racer	LPL	PAC	WHI	WIN	IGL	ALT	STM	KON	Points
1	Jacqueline Lölling (GER)	8	3	1	1	4	1	6	1	1628
2	Tina Hermann (GER)	10	2	3	5	11	2	2	2	1504
3	Elisabeth Vathje (CAN)	2	6	8	2	2	9	3	9	1470
4	Elena Nikitina (RUS)	4	1	–	3	1	5	7	14	1306
5	Jane Channell (CAN)	6	11	2	6	14	6	14	6	1274
6	Janine Flock (AUT)	1	22	14	11	5	20	1	3	1206
7	Laura Deas (GBR)	5	5	11	7	6	8	12	23	1186
8	Mirela Rahneva (CAN)	7	4	7	4	3	22	4	–	1168
9	Lizzy Yarnold (GBR)	3	8	23	13	16	19	9	4	1044
10	Anna Fernstädt (GER)	–	–	6	9	14	3	5	5	1008
11	Lelde Priedulēna (LAT)	16	18	4	14	9	4	–	7	992
12	Katie Uhlaender (USA)	9	7	9	8	27	–	10	8	968
13	Kim Meylemans (BEL)	12	9	5	10	11	12	17	–	960
14	Kimberley Bos (NED)	12	10	16	24	7	7	20	17	905
15	Kendall Wesenberg (USA)	14	12	15	25	8	23	16	11	826
16	Marina Gilardoni (SUI)	19	26	16	15	13	10	15	10	822
17	Joska Le Conte (NED)	25	14	12	22	22	14	11	12	768
18	Jaclyn Narracott (AUS)	17	15	20	16	21	17	8	21	728
19	Renata Khuzina (RUS)	22	17	13	27	18	13	21	13	678
20	Savannah Graybill (USA)	11	16	18	26	20	21	19	16	648
21	Yulia Kanakina (RUS)	15	20	10	12	–	–	18	15	628
22	Nozomi Komuro (JPN)	18	19	24	18	23	24	22	18	510
23	Takako Oguchi (JPN)	20	24	21	17	26	16	24	20	508
24	Maya Pedersen (NOR)	26	23	22	28	28	15	23	19	426
25	Maria Montejano (ESP)	24	28	27	20	25	–	26	25	289
26	Maria Orlova (RUS)	–	–	–	–	9	11	–	–	288
27	Madelaine Smith (GBR)	–	–	–	–	17	–	13	22	264
28	Ashleigh Fay Pittaway (GBR)	21	21	19	21	–	–	–	–	260
29	Sophia Griebel (GER)	23	13	–	–	–	–	–	–	170
30	Mun Ra-young (KOR)	–	–	25	19	–	–	25	–	154
31	Katie Tannenbaum (VIR)	–	27	26	–	–	–	28	24	141
32	Maria Marinela Mazilu (ROU)	–	–	–	23	23	–	27	–	132
33	Jeong Sophia (KOR)	–	25	–	–	19	–	–	–	114
34	Annie O'Shea (USA)	–	–	–	–	–	18	–	–	80

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	5	6	16
2	South Korea	5	2	0	7
3	Latvia	2	3	2	7
4	Russia	2	2	3	7
5	Austria	2	0	1	3
6	Canada	0	4	3	7
7	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		16	16	16	48

References

1. "Rankings List". Fibt.com. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
2. "Rankings List". Fibt.com. Retrieved 2015-05-31.

External links

• IBSF