LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - After winning two medals at the Sochi Olympics, internal expectations around the U.S. women s bobsled program as they enter a new four-year cycle are loftier than ever.With good . . .
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Bobsleigh pilot Kaillie Humphries of the United States celebrates on the podium after taking first place in the women s monobob race at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, Sunday, Feb.14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Credit: The Associated Press
Kaillie Humphries wasn’t sure if she would get a chance to race this season.
She ended up on top of the world twice.
Humphries ended her international season Sunday by winning the inaugural women’s monobob world championship in Altenberg, Germany, adding that gold medal to the one she and Lolo Jones claimed on the same track last weekend.
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United State s bobsleigh pilot Kaillie Humphries at the start of the women s monobob race at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, Saturday, Feb.13, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) February 13, 2021 - 9:04 AM
Kaillie Humphries is headed into the final day of the major international sliding season with a chance at another world championship.
Humphries is in second place midway through the inaugural womenâs monobob world championship race, trailing Germanyâs Stephanie Schneider by 0.04 seconds after Saturdayâs first two runs in Altenberg, Germany.
The final two runs are Sunday.
âWeâve only had so many runs on this track, and we didnât get our monobob sleds until January,â Humphries said. âWeâre still learning, and on one of the most technically challenging tracks in the world.â
Skeleton events to begin with IBSF World Championships to resume in Altenberg Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Skeleton events will provide the focus as the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships resumes in Altenberg tomorrow.
The World Championships opened last week with United States’ Kaillie Humphries and Lolo Jones winning the two-woman bobsleigh event, before Germany’s Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schüller won the men’s competition.
Competition will resume tomorrow after a three-day break, with the first two runs of the men’s and women’s skeleton events being held.
Austria’s Janine Flock will begin as one of the favourites for the women’s title, with the 31-year-old having been crowned this season’s overall World Cup winner.
CALGARY Melissa Lotholz was on top of her game this past weekend at a World Cup Monobob race in Igls, Austria. Lotholz rocketed a two run time of 1:51.22 on the 14 corner track and with it she went into the record books. The 28-year-old became the first Canadian to win a medal in the newly-created Women’s Monobob World Series at the World Cup level. Lotholz says it was a thrill to stand on the podium. “Obviously (I m) super-ecstatic to medal at this level of competition,”Lotholz said. “It was actually my first medal as a pilot at this level of competition as well so it was very special.”