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2015–16 Skeleton World Cup
The 2015–16 Skeleton World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for skeleton. The season started on 27 November 2015 in Altenberg, Germany, and ended on 28 February 2016 in Königssee, Germany. The World Cup was organised by the IBSF (formerly the FIBT) who also run World Cups and Championships in bobsleigh. The season was sponsored by BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational manufacturer of vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Th .... Calendar Results Men Women Standings Men Women References External links International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:2015-16 Skeleton World Cup Skeleton World Cup 2015 in skeleton 2016 in skeleton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martins Dukurs
Martins Dukurs (born 31 March 1984) is a former Latvian skeleton racer, currently a coach, who has competed since 1998. He is a six-time world champion in men's skeleton, a double Olympic silver winner (at Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014), and the athlete with the most World Cup titles with a total of 11, having won eight consecutive titles between 2010 and 2017, plus another three consecutive titles between 2020 and 2022. Career Dukurs finished seventh in the men's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and sixth in the men's skeleton event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the 2011 FIBT World Championships, 2012 FIBT World Championships, 2015 FIBT World Championships, 2016 FIBT World Championships and 2017 FIBT World Championships. Martins won the overall World Cup for the 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 season, 2016–17 season and 2019–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Jungk
Axel Jungk (born 13 April 1991) is a German skeleton racer who represents his nation in the Skeleton World Cup. Jungk finished third in the standings in the 2014-15 Skeleton World Cup season. In the 2015-16 Skeleton World Cup Season, he secured fourth place overall, tying with Aleksandr Tretyakov (skeleton racer), Alexsandr Tretyakov for silver at Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, Winterberg and earning a bronze at Utah Olympic Park Track, Park City. He once again finished fourth in the 2016–17 World Cup circuit, adding a bronze at Altenberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, Altenberg. Jungk finished in second place in the standings in the 2017–18 Skeleton World Cup, racking up a total of 1,507 points from gold at Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, Königssee, a silver at St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun, St. Moritz and a bronze at Park City. Jungk finished fourth in the 2018-19 Skeleton World Cup with a silver at Winterberg and a bronze in Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skeleton World Cup
The Skeleton World Cup season is a yearly competition first organized by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) is the international sports federation for the sliding sports of Bobsleigh and skeleton (sport), Skeleton. It was founded on 23 November 1923 by the delegates of Great Britain, France, Sw ... since 1986–87. The women's version of this event debuted in 1996–97. Overall results Men Debuted: 1986–87 *Medals: Women Debuted: 1996–97 *Medals: All-time overall results Record of victories and podiums (NB: some results are based without official sources because archives do not exist to date. Results are missing for the first two World Cups in 1987 and 1988) Men Women References * * {{Main world cups Skeleton competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1986 World cups in winter sports International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Flock
Janine Flock (; born 25 July 1989) is an Austrian skeleton racer. She was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2018 Winter Olympics, and the 2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas wit .... In February 2015, she became the first Austrian woman to win an overall World Cup skeleton title. She came in second at the 2016 World Championships and third at the 2020 World Championships and is regarded as the best woman skeleton racer in Austrian history. References External links * * * 1989 births Living people Austrian female skeleton racers Olympic skeleton racers for Austria Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Hall in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie O'Shea
Anne O'Shea (born September 5, 1987) is an American skeleton racer. She got interested in skeleton after meeting the father of skeletoner John Daly at the Empire State Games in 2004, and was first selected to the national team in 2006; like many skeleton and bobsled racers, she came to the sport from track and field. O'Shea attended California University of Pennsylvania. She has won the national championship three times in her career, and was twice selected USA Bobsled-Skeleton Athlete of the Year. Away from the track, O'Shea is an MBA student at DeVry University's Keller Graduate School of Management. Notable results O'Shea began her international competition career on the North American Cup tour in the 2006–07 season, with top-two finishes in four of her first five races. She moved up to the World Cup circuit for the 2007–08 season, finishing tenth in races at Calgary and Park City and ninth at the Junior World Championships. The following season, she dropped back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Gilardoni
Marina Gilardoni (born 4 March 1987) is a Swiss skeleton racer and former bobsleigh brakewoman. After starting her sporting career in heptathlon at the club level, Gilardoni began racing bobsleigh in 2007 and earned a place on the Swiss national team. She won gold medals at the Junior World Championships in 2008 behind driver Fabienne Meyer and in 2010 with Sabina Hafner driving. After the 2009–10 season, she switched from bobsleigh to skeleton. In 2018, Gilardoni was selected to represent Switzerland in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after the Dutch Olympic Committee refused one of their two entries and it was reallocated to Switzerland. Notable results Gilardoni's only podium finishes in bobsleigh were the two Junior World Championship wins. After switching to skeleton, she spent the 2010–11 season on the Europe Cup circuit but was quickly promoted to the Swiss World Cup squad for 2011–12, with the goal of maintaining the Swiss athlete quota in the World Cup. At h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Channell
Jane Channell (born August 23, 1988) is a Canadian skeleton racer who has competed since 2011 and was selected to the national team in 2013, joining the Skeleton World Cup squad in 2015. Channell was inspired to try skeleton by Jon Montgomery's gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Before skeleton, Channell played softball and competed in track and field, winning the Great Northwest Athletic Conference indoor track titles in 60 metres and 200 metres. Channell was named one of the three women to represent Canada in skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after finishing fifth in both the overall and World Cup standings for the 2017–18 season. In January 2022, Channell was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. Notable results In the 2015–16 season, Channell had seven top-ten finishes out of the eight races and finished third in the overall ranking, but dropped to 11th overall in the 2016–17 season. Her best individual finish on the World Cup was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Lölling
Jacqueline "Jacka" Pfeifer ( Lölling, born 6 February 1995) is a German skeleton racer who has won numerous races and championships, including the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics skeleton competition in 2012 and the 2017 World Championships. Pfeifer began competing in skeleton at the age of 12 and was selected to the German national team in 2009. She won her first two international races, as a fifteen-year-old on the Europe Cup circuit, at Cesana Pariol in 2010. Her personal coach is Kathi Wichterle, and she rides an FES sled. When not racing, Pfeifer works for the German Federal Police. Notable results Lölling raced on the Intercontinental Cup from 2011 to 2012 to 2014–15, ending with a string of three gold medals, as well as winning the Junior World Championships in 2014 at Winterberg and in 2015 at Altenberg. Rather than follow the other ICC sliders on the North American leg of the tour, she dropped back to Europe Cup racing for the remainder of the 2014–15 season a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Deas
Laura Deas ( ; born 19 August 1988) is a British sportswoman, best known as a Skeleton (sport), skeleton racer on the Skeleton World Cup, World Cup circuit, representing the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. She won bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Early life Born in Wrexham, Wales, Deas attended Howell's School, Denbigh. She played field hockey, hockey, representing North Wales in competition, and participated in equestrian sports, from Pony Club tetrathlon in which she became team captain and latterly eventing (taking it up professionally from 2006 to 2008), Skeleton Deas was brought into skeleton in 2009 through UK Sport's "Girls4Gold" talent identification programme and was selected to UK national team the following year. She rides a Blackroc sled. Deas won her first skeleton (sport)#Continental Cups, Europe Cup race in Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, Winterberg in 2010, in only her fifth international race, after pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomass Dukurs
Tomass Dukurs (born 2 July 1981 in Riga) is a Latvian skeleton racer who has competed since 1998. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he finished fourth in the men's skeleton event at Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014. Career Dukurs' best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 3rd in the men's skeleton event at Winterberg in 2015. His younger brother Martins is also a skeleton racer. Both he and his brother made the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Olympics. In November 2017 Sochi gold medalist Alexander Tretiakov was disqualified by the IOC and his medal stripped from him, however, a decision on, whether Tomass Dukurs is granted a bronze medal, has not been made by the IBSF. Eventually, IBSF restored the gold medal for Tretiakov. Tomass and Martins are coached by their father, Dainis Dukurs, a former bobsleigh brakeman, manager of the Sigulda Sigulda (; ; Polish Zygwold) is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, from the capital city Riga. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun Sung-bin
Yun Sung-bin (; born 23 May 1994) is a South Korean skeleton racer. He won the gold medal in men's skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Early life and education Born in 1994 in South Korea's southern coastal region of Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province, Yun grew up knowing nothing about the winter sliding sport. Still, as a child, Yun always enjoyed running around at the beach and excelled in many sports at school, including soccer, badminton, competitive running, and jumping, among others. Yun moved to Seoul when he was in middle school and continued playing sports at school, hoping to get into a sports university. In 100-metre races, he would ask to start 10 metres back from others his age and still beat other runners. At 1.78 meter in height, he could grab a basketball rim with ease. While playing basketball in high school, Yun's natural athletic ability was noticed by his physical education teacher, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikita Tregubov
Nikita Mikhailovich Tregubov (; born 14 February 1995) is a Russian skeleton racer. Career He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in his native Russia, and when improved to a silver medal in skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea. During the Games, Tregubov remarked that US and British athletes are "set against us politically." Tregubov qualified for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, but was withdrawn after a positive COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ... test. World Cup results All results are sourced from the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). References External links * * 1995 births Living people Olympic skeleton racers for Russia Russian male skeleton racers Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Skelet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
