von Schleinitz Wins ICC Opener in Whistler

From Whistler, CAN

(Nov. 4, 2017) Kilian von Schleinitz took gold in a very tight Intercontinental Cup  2017/2018 opener at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

The three-man German squad all finished in the top four, with Felix Keisinger sharing the silver medal with Russian Pavel Kulikov. Michael Zachrau finished out the German effort with a fourth-place finish.

Canadian Evan Neufeldt came into the second run as the leader, but had the sixth-quickest run to drop to fifth overall, while British slider Marcus Wyatt had the fast push in the first heat on his way to a sixth place finish.

Paul Fraser and Patrick Rooney helped put all three Canadian men in the top ten with a tie for seventh, and a tenth place finish respectively.

Nathan Crumpton led the way for the United States in ninth. Mike Rogals and Kyle Brown finished 15th and 25th to round out the American effort.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Kilian von Schhleinitz GER 4.73 4.67 52.83 52.84 1:45.67
2 Pavel Kulikov RUS 4.64 4.62 52.97 52.94 1:45.91
2 Felix Keisinger GER 4.59 4.58 52.98 52.93 1:45.91
4 Michael Zachrau GER 4.69 4.73 53.06 52.88 1:45.94
5 Evan Neufeldt CAN 4.65 4.62 52.81 53.46 1:46.27
6 Marcus Wyatt GBR 4.58 4.59 53.36 53.30 1:46.66
7 Evgeniy Rukosuev RUS 4.68 4.67 53.53 53.49 1:47.02
7 Paul Fraser CAN 4.66 4.70 53.53 53.49 1:47.02
9 Nathan Crumpton USA 4.64 4.66 53.50 53.64 1:47.14
10 Patrick Rooney CAN 4.73 4.75 53.90 53.65 1:47.55
11 Seunggi Jung KOR 4.62 4.60 53.77 53.85 1:47.62
12 Alexander Auer AUT 4.74 4.74 53.76 53.93 1:47.69
13 Egor Veselov RUS 4.73 4.87 54.01 53.99 1:48.00
14 Yuki Sasahara JPN 4.91 4.88 53.88 54.38 1:48.26
15 Micahel Rogals USA 4.85 4.87 54.19 54.09 1:48.28
16 Dorin Velicu ROU 4.82 4.93 54.27 54.10 1:48.37
17 Florian Auer AUT 4.82 4.80 54.22 54.38 1:48.60
18 Wengang Yan CHN 4.73 4.72 53.95 54.73 1:48.68
19 Adam Edelman ISR 4.85 4.84 54.16 54.74 1:48.90
20 Jisoo Kim KOR 4.64 4.63 53.99 55.40 1:49.39
21 Ivo Steinbergs LAT 4.76 54.52
22 Marco Rohrer SUI 4.84 54.53
23 Manuel Schwärzer ITA 4.80 54.78
24 Brendan Doyle IRL 4.68 54.90
25 Kyle Brown USA 4.70 54.95
26 Rasmus Ottosson SWE 5.04 55.27
27 Dean Timmings AUS 4.71 55.29
28 Anthony Watson JAM 4.81 55.51
29 Akwasi Frimpong GHA 4.73 57.33