Janine Flock closes in on 2nd skeleton World Cup title
January 22, 2021 GMT
KONIGSSEE, Germany (AP) Austria’s Janine Flock all but clinched her second women’s World Cup overall skeleton championship Friday, while Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling picked up her first series win of the season.
Loelling prevailed over Anna Fernstaedt of the Czech Republic, who was a career-best second. Flock was third and now can wrap up the title next weekend on her home track in Innsbruck, where the World Cup finale will take place.
Flock, who also won the 2014-15 women’s season title, has been in the top-three in every race this season. All she needs in the finale to clinch the championship is to finish 18th or better.
BMW IBSF World Cup Koenigssee / Women s Skeleton 01/22/21
Defending champion Jacqueline Lölling with first win of the season at BMW IBSF World Cup Anna Fernstaedt in second with best ever result, Flock and Channell tied for third place
Königssee (RWH) Defending World Cup Champion in Women’s Skeleton Jacqueline Lölling (GER) celebrated her first win of the season at the BMW IBSF World Cup in Königssee (GER). In the penultimate race of the 2020/2021 season, the Olympic silver medallist stood at the top of the podium after setting the best time in the second run.
In second place, 0.47 seconds behind winner Lölling, Anna Fernstaedt (CZE) surprised with her best World Cup result and the first podium finish of a skeleton athlete from the Czech Republic.
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BMW IBSF World Cup St. Moritz / Women s Skeleton 01/15/21
World Champion Tina Hermann with first win of the season at BMW IBSF World Cup Janine Flock defends World Cup lead with second place, Jacqueline Lölling third
St. Moritz (RWH) Skeleton World Champion Tina Hermann (GER) celebrated her first victory of the season at the BMW IBSF World Cup in St. Moritz. In the sixth race of the pre-Olympic winter, the overall winner of 2016 stood at the top of the World Cup podium for the first time in almost a year. Tina Hermann also won in St. Moritz back in January 2020.
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Germans win skeleton golds; Uhlaender leads US sliders
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) Tina Hermann of Germany won a World Cup skeleton race on the historic St. Moritz track Friday, and Katie Uhlaender posted the best finish of any U.S. sliding athlete so far this season.
Hermann prevailed with Austria’s Janine Flock finishing second and Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling taking third. Hannah Neise of Germany was fourth, followed by Uhlaender the four-time Olympian who placed fifth.
Americans did not compete in the first half of the World Cup skeleton, bobsled and luge seasons, remaining home in the U.S. because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic and issues with international travel. Kaillie Humphries was sixth in women’s bobsled last weekend, which had been the top U.S. result this winter before Uhlaender’s showing Friday.