Walker, Ying Tie for Monobob Gold

From Königssee, GER

Dec. 19, 2019 – Breeana Walker and Qing Ying tied for gold in the second European women’s monobob race of the 2019/2020 IBSF season.

Both Walker and Ying came into the second heat behind Canadian Cynthia Appiah, and found themselves tied for second with only Appiah’s run to go. The Canadian had trouble halfway down her second run, and fell to 14th, giving Walker and Ying the win.

The gold for Walker was her third in five monobob races, while Ying’s was her first monobob gold and second overall (Calgary women’s bobsled, Nov. 2017). Walker has never finished outside of the top four in monobob competition.

Canadian Melissa Lotholz finished third overall, only .02 out of gold. She was second fastest (behind only Appiah) off the top in both heats, and jumped up from sixth in the first heat to win bronze.

French slider Margo Boch finished in fourth, just .08 ahead of Australian Ashleigh Werner and .12 ahead of Candian Kori Hol, who finished fifth and sixth respectively.

The fifth place for Werner comes in her first trip to Europe as a pilot.

Canada placed all of their pilots in the top 15. Behind Lotholz ad Hol’s runs, Bianca Ribi missed out on a top ten by just .04 to finish 11th, and Cynthia Appiah finished 14th after leading the first heat on the strength of the two fastest pushes of the competition.

Felicity Bee led the way for Great Britain with a 16th place run in her second IBSF event. Teammates Joanne Ellett and Isabella Burke finished 20th and 27th, respectively.

Austria’s Kati Beierl finished seventh in her first career monobob race.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Breeana Walker AUS 21 5.54 5.53 54.81 55.92 1:50.73
1 Qing Ying CHN 16 5.62 5.62 55.12 55.61 1:50.73
3 Melissa Lotholz CAN 29 5.51 5.50 55.30 55.45 1:50.75
4 Margo Boch FRA 7 5.68 5.67 55.01 56.29 1:50.30
5 Ashleigh Werner AUS 2 5.84 5.80 55.31 56.29 1:51.38
6 Kori Hol CAN 12 5.68 5.68 55.27 56.15 1:51.42
7 Katrin Beierl AUT 18 5.70 5.69 55.36 56.25 1:51.61
8 Anastasia Makarova RUS 22 5.74 5.75 55.44 56.19 1:51.63
9 Tania Vicenzino ITA 17 5.68 5.70 55.63 56.30 1:51.93
10 Karlien Sleper NED 23 5.63 5.65 55.81 56.21 1:52.02
11 Bianca Ribi CAN 27 5.69 5.69 56.13 55.93 1:52.06
12 Mingming Huai CHN 28 5.71 5.70 55.91 56.16 1:52.07
13 Viktoria Cernanska SVK 20 5.79 5.77 55.63 56.54 1:52.17
14 Cynthia Appiah CAN 4 5.46 5.44 54.75 57.53 1:52.28
15 Mariko Morimoto JPN 9 5.72 5.70 55.39 56.90 1:52.29
16 Felicity Bee GBR 1 5.86 5.80 56.10 56.39 1:52.49
17 Maja Wagner GER 8 5.95 5.91 55.78 56.87 1:52.65
18 Teodora Vlad ROU 13 5.68 5.68 55.70 57.31 1:53.06
19 Sylwia Smolarek POL 6 6.04 6.00 55.74 57.49 1:53.29
20 Joanne Ellett GBR 14 5.73 5.77 56.20 57.27 1:53.47
21 Giada Andreutti ITA 5 5.89 56.30
22 Alexandra Chislyaeva RUS 11 5.86 56.37
23 Celine Harms GER 15 5.97 56.47
24 Lidiia Hunko UKR 10 6.10 56.53
25 Kelly van Petegem BEL 26 5.70 56.89
26 Diana Filipszki GER 19 6.01 56.96
27 Isabella Burke GBR 25 5.80 58.17
28 Loes Hubrecht BEL 24 5.74 80.21
DNF Mognes Mie NOR 3 6.19 DNF