Key Highlights
- Ashley Farquharson was second, Summer Britcher was third and Emily Fischnaller was fourth for the Americans. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementRussia had a slider in a World Cup race for the first time in nearly four years.
- Daria Olesik, competing as a neutral slider, was 21st in her lone run; only the top 20 made it to the second heat. Olesik is presumably the only female luge athlete from Russia with a chance to reach the Milan Cortina Games in February. Weather forced the schedule to be changed Friday, with both the men’s and women’s doubles events postponed to Saturday.
- That means five World Cup races will be held on one day — the two doubles races, men’s singles, mixed doubles and mixed singles. SkeletonAt Sigulda, Latvia, Belgium’s Kim Meylemans won a World Cup women’s skeleton race for the second consecutive day — rallying to beat Anna Fernstaedt of Czechia on Friday. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMeylemans won in 1:44.16, 0.08 seconds ahead of Fernstaedt and 0.14 seconds ahead of Britain’s Amelia Coltman.
- Kelly Curtis was 22nd for the U. S. In the men’s skeleton race, Britain went 1-2 with Matt Weston cruising to a win over countryman Marcus Wyatt.
- Felix Keisinger was third, nearly a second back of Weston’s winning time.