From Lake Placid, USA
(March 8, 2024) – Kimberley Bos set the two quickest downtimes of the day on Friday to win the final women’s skeleton race of the 2023/2024 North American Cup season.
The current World Cup point leader slid to a .3 second advantage over the United States’ Sara Roderick, with NAC point leader and 2012 Lake Placid world champ Katie Uhlaender in third another tenth back.
In the second heat, Uhlaender held off Valentina Margaglio to slide into the medals with Roderick and Bos still to go. Roderick held serve with a second downtime .16 quicker than Uhlaender’s second effort to slide into no worse than silver with Bos still to come.
Bos was .06 quicker off the top, enough to give her the second quickest start of the heat. Her second slide was just as good as her first, only a tenth off her first run time and enough to give her the two quick runs of the day for gold.
Prior to this week, Bos hadn’t made a start on the North American Cup tour since 2016, but her gold gave her six wins on NAC.
For Roderick, her silver medal in the wildly stacked NAC field was her first since November 2021 in Park City.
Uhlaender’s bronze continued a streak of 12 podiums on the North American Cup that dates back to at least 2008.
Margaglio finished fourth, .3 ahead of Austria’s Janine Flock in fifth. Flock jumped up from 12th in the first heat to move into the top five.
Puerto Rico’s Kellie Delka rounded out the top six.
The United States’ Logan Wudi finished 16th, two spots ahead of teammate Michelle Toukan in 18th. Sha’Londa Terry and Biancha Emrey finished 30th and 40th to round out the American effort.
Jane Channell led the way for Canada with a 13th place finish. Hallie Clarke once again took it easy off the top and finished 22nd despite a 37th start in the first heat. Grace Dafoe put all three Canadian women in the top 25 with a 24th place finish.
Like Janine Flock, Great Britain’s Freya Tarbit made a big jump from the first heat and finished seventh, up from 11th in the first heat. Teammate Amelia Coltman helped put two sleds in the top ten for Team GB with a tenth place finish. Isabella Fassnidge finished 21st and Ashlyn Bland 32nd on the final to British sleds.
Uhlaender’s bronze medal, coupled with Wudi’s 16th place finish gave the United States a one-two finish in the NAC standings with Uhlaender winning the title and Wudi second overall. South Korea’s Sujong Hong and Seokju Yang were third and fourth overall, respectively.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Finish |
| 1 | Kimberley Bos | NED | 6 | 5.32 | 5.26 | 55.24 | 55.34 | 1:50.58 |
| 2 | Sara Roderick | USA | 19 | 5.18 | 5.19 | 55.54 | 55.72 | 1:52.26 |
| 3 | Katie Uhlaender | USA | 7 | 5.43 | 5.52 | 55.64 | 55.88 | 1:51.52 |
| 4 | Valentina Margaglio | ITA | 22 | 5.31 | 5.33 | 56.00 | 55.90 | 1:51.90 |
| 5 | Janine Flock | AUT | 15 | 5.51 | 5.39 | 56.41 | 55.79 | 1:52.20 |
| 6 | Kellie Delka | PUR | 13 | 5.54 | 5.60 | 55.97 | 56.54 | 1:52.51 |
| 7 | Freya Tarbit | GBR | 23 | 5.30 | 5.36 | 56.29 | 56.26 | 1:52.55 |
| 8 | Yuxi Li | CHN | 9 | 5.39 | 5.36 | 56.19 | 56.52 | 1:52.71 |
| 9 | Dan Zhao | CHN | 16 | 5.30 | 5.36 | 56.19 | 56.66 | 1:52.85 |
| 10 | Amelia Coltman | GBR | 39 | 5.30 | 5.34 | 56.20 | 56.84 | 1:53.04 |
| 11 | Anna Fernstädt | CZE | 17 | 5.54 | 5.59 | 56.21 | 57.00 | 1:53.21 |
| 12 | Aline Pelckmans | BEL | 25 | 5.52 | 5.51 | 56.54 | 56.75 | 1:53.29 |
| 13 | Jane Channell | CAN | 20 | 5.24 | 5.30 | 56.25 | 57.17 | 1:53.42 |
| 14 | Siji Song | CHN | 30 | 5.49 | 5.50 | 56.55 | 57.00 | 1;53.55 |
| 15 | Annia Unterscheider | AUT | 3 | 5.69 | 5.63 | 56.85 | 56.77 | 1:53.62 |
| 16 | Logan Wudi | USA | 5 | 5.67 | 5.68 | 56.67 | 56.99 | 1:53.66 |
| 17 | Yanqi Zhu | CHN | 24 | 5.27 | 5.34 | 56.88 | 57.01 | 1:53.89 |
| 18 | Michelle Toukan | USA | 40 | 5.51 | 5.44 | 56.69 | 57.47 | 1:54.16 |
| 19 | Yuxin Liang | CHN | 29 | 5.29 | 5.29 | 56.82 | 57.38 | 1:54.20 |
| 20 | Alessandra Fumagalli | ITA | 26 | 5.34 | 5.34 | 57.15 | 57.13 | 1:54.28 |
| 21 | Isabella Fassnidge | GBR | 27 | 5.24 | 5.27 | 57.03 | 57.28 | 1:54.31 |
| 22 | Hallie Clarke | CAN | 31 | 5.99 | 6.03 | 57.06 | 57.27 | 1:54.33 |
| 23 | Sujung Hong | KOR | 12 | 5.53 | 5.55 | 57.21 | 57.81 | 1:55.02 |
| 24 | Grace Dafoe | CAN | 4 | 5.62 | 5.67 | 57.53 | 57.66 | 1:55.19 |
| 25 | Clara Aznar | ESP | 34 | 5.63 | 5.70 | 57.55 | 57.89 | 1:55.44 |
| 26 | Julia Simmchen | SUI | 28 | 5.66 | 57.61 | |||
| 27 | Ana Torres Quevedo | ESP | 36 | 6.03 | 57.86 | |||
| 28 | Annelies van Dijk | NED | 2 | 5.41 | 57.91 | |||
| 29 | Nicole Burger | RSA | 32 | 5.68 | 57.93 | |||
| 30 | Eire Rowland-Evans | IRL | 11 | 5.60 | 58.20 | |||
| 31 | Shannon Galea | MLT | 14 | 5.84 | 58.21 | |||
| 32 | Ashlyn Bland | GBR | 33 | 5.37 | 58.43 | |||
| 33 | Sha’Londa Terry | USA | 10 | 5.34 | 58.55 | |||
| 34 | Alessia Crippa | ITA | 18 | 6.33 | 58.67 | |||
| 35 | Laura Vargas | COL | 21 | 5.79 | 58.78 | |||
| 36 | Yeeun Chung | KOR | 37 | 5.92 | 58.97 | |||
| 37 | Julia Erlacher | AUT | 35 | 5.36 | 59.17 | |||
| 38 | Yerim Kim | KOR | 1 | 5.78 | 59.37 | |||
| 39 | Hannah Russwurm | FIN | 8 | 5.84 | 59.98 | |||
| 40 | Biacha Emery | USA | 38 | 6.54 | 60.70 |
