From Whistler, CAN
(Nov. 5, 2017) Katsuyuki Miyajima had the fastest run of the day in the second race of the 2017/2018 North American Cup season. His second run was quick enough to give him a second career NAC gold medal.
The Japanese slider came into the second run .21 ahead of Canadian Mark Lynch, was was consistent enough to hold off Lynch and the field on his way to gold.
American Austin Florian finished second after clocking the fastest time of the second heat, moving up from fourth to second place in the process. Swiss slider Ronald Auderset finished with a bronze medal on the strength of the fastest push in both heats.
Lynch fell back to fourth place after a fifth-fastest second run, while American Austin McCrary and Aussie Nicholas Timmings rounded out the top six.
Andrew Blaser finished eighth for the United States, while Mike Brandt finished 11th to round out a solid American showing. Kyle Murray and Kyle Donsberger finished 13th and 25th respectively to round out the Canadian effort.
Results:
Pos | Name | Nation | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
1 | Katsuyuki Miyajima | JPN | 4.79 | 4.79 | 53.46 | 53.65 | 1:47.11 |
2 | Austin Florian | USA | 4.70 | 4.60 | 54.00 | 53.60 | 1:47.60 |
3 | Ronald Auderset | SUI | 4.58 | 4.56 | 53.83 | 53.88 | 1:47.71 |
4 | Mark Lynch | CAN | 4.77 | 4.78 | 53.67 | 54.10 | 1:47.77 |
5 | Austin McCrary | USA | 4.81 | 4.84 | 54.47 | 54.02 | 1:48.49 |
6 | Nicholas Timmings | AUS | 4.67 | 4.67 | 54.14 | 54.40 | 1:48.54 |
7 | Joel Seligstein | ISR | 4.92 | 4.97 | 54.13 | 54.54 | 1:48.67 |
8 | Andrew Blaser | USA | 4.70 | 4.65 | 54.33 | 54.72 | 1:49.05 |
9 | Nicholas Rettenmyer | ITA | 4.87 | 4.81 | 54.04 | 55.03 | 1:49.07 |
10 | Riet Graf | SUI | 4.77 | 4.77 | 54.77 | 54.42 | 1:49.19 |
11 | Mike Brandt | USA | 4.83 | 4.86 | 54.63 | 54.59 | 1:49.22 |
12 | Rin Kinoshita | JPN | 4.74 | 4.73 | 54.67 | 54.49 | 1:50.16 |
13 | Kyle Murray | CAN | 4.68 | 5.70 | 55.25 | 55.38 | 1:50.63 |
14 | Linus Ottosson | SWE | 4.92 | 4.94 | 55.26 | 55.51 | 1:50.77 |
15 | Jeff Bauer | LUX | 4.94 | 4.95 | 55.47 | 55.88 | 1:51.35 |
16 | Elliott Brown | AUS | 5.10 | 5.02 | 55.99 | 55.74 | 1:51.73 |
17 | Chun-Hung Chiang | TPE | 4.95 | 4.97 | 56.28 | 55.91 | 1:52.19 |
18 | Lawrence Sidney | ISR | 5.14 | 5.03 | 56.16 | 56.14 | 1:52.30 |
19 | Kang Yang | CHN | 4.79 | 5.01 | 56.33 | 56.83 | 1:53.16 |
20 | Toshiki Kuroiwa | JPN | 4.75 | 4.75 | 56.88 | 56.85 | 1:53.73 |
21 | Bram Zeegers | NED | 5.17 | 56.96 | |||
22 | Peter Makrides | AUS | 4.87 | 56.99 | |||
23 | Kyle Donsberger | CAN | 4.89 | 57.12 | |||
24 | Sho Gonai | JPN | 4.92 | 57.13 | |||
25 | Tyler Heron | AUS | 5.16 | 57.26 | |||
DNS | Wenhao Chen | CHN | DNS |