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 St. Moritz / Men s Skeleton 01/15/21
Skeleton athlete Alexander Gassner celebrates first victory in BMW IBSF World Cup Martins Dukurs defends World Cup lead in second place, Olympic champion Yun third St. Moritz (RWH) Mixed Team World Champion Alexander Gassner from Germany celebrated his first ever victory in the BMW IBSF World Cup in St. Moritz (SUI). On the Olympia Bobrun
St. Moritz-Celerina, Gassner, second after the first run, pulled out a hundredth of a second advantage in the second run - the smallest measurable gap in skeleton racing. Gassner thus stood at the top of the podium for the first time almost ten years after his first World Cup and in his 44th race.