Humphries Edges Meyers Taylor in Lake Placid

From Lake Placid, USA

(Nov. 9, 2017) Much has been made of the friendly rivalry between American Elana Meyers Taylor and Canadian Kaillie Humphries. As the 2017/2018 season kicked off in Lake Placid, that rivalry appears set to carry on into the 2018 Games.

Humphries on her gold medal run

Humphries carried a .11 advantage over Meyers Taylor going into the second heat, but Meyers Taylor wasn’t about to let Humphries walk into her home ice and just walk away with the race. Meyers Taylor came back strong, setting the fast run in the second heat to close the gap on the Olympic champion. It turned out to not be enough however, as  Kaillie Humphries finished her second run .03 ahead of the overall pace set by Meyers Taylor.

Stephanie Schneider of Germany edged American Jamie Greubel Poser by just .01 for bronze on Greubel Poser’s birthday, despite strong pushes by Greubel Poser and brakewoman Aja Evans.

Greubel Poser finished fourth, well ahead of German Mariama Jamanka and Canadian Christine de Bruin, who finished fifth and sixth, respectively.

Alysia Rissling rounded out the Canadian effort in seventh place, while Great Britain’s Mica McNeill finished eighth, .02 ahead of the USA’s Brittany Reinbolt.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Humphries / Lotholz CAN 4 5.49 5.43 56.96 57.44 1:54.40
2 Meyers Taylor / Gibbs USA 10 5.34 5.35 57.07 57.36 1:54.43
3 Schneider / Buckwitz GER 1 5.45 5.51 57.10 57.50 1:54.60
4 Greubel Poser / Evans USA 13 5.44 5.46 57.09 57.52 1:54.61
5 Jamanka / Nolte GER 5 5.54 5.58 57.14 57.68 1:54.82
6 de Bruin / Appiah CAN 2 5.52 5.54 57.34 57.65 1:54.99
7 Rissling / Bujnowski CAN 8 5.61 5.64 57.34 57.83 1:55.17
8 McNeill / Moore GBR 15 5.65 5.64 57.50 57.76 1:55.26
9 Reinbolt / B. Jones USA 9 5.52 5.51 57.63 57.65 1:55.28
10 Rodionova / Kohcherzhova RUS 6 5.65 5.62 57.65 57.87 1:55.52
11 Sergeeva / Shokshueva RUS 7 5.55 5.57 57.59 58.01 1:55.60
12 Köhler / Fritz-Glahn GER 19 5.61 5.63 57.86 57.88 1:55.74
13 Willemsen / Aerts BEL 11 5.67 5.71 57.75 58.00 1:55.75
14 Constantin / Florentina ROU 17 5.69 5.72 57.96 57.96 1:55.92
15 Hafner / E. Rebsamen SUI 18 5.66 5.63 57.99 58.03 1:56.02
16 Vannieuwenhuyse / Vercruyssen BEL 14 5.68 5.67 58.05 58.00 1:56.05
17 Grecu / Puiu ROU 3 5.68 5.67 58.26 58.25 1:56.51
18 Asazu / Kawasaki JPN 20 5.86 5.89 59.21 59.06 1:58.27
19 Oshigiri / Kimishima JPN 16 5.62 5.61 58.06 60.44 1:58.50
DNF Hengster / Kleiser AUT 12 5.66 DNF