FIBT World Cup - Round 4 - Women's Skeleton - Cancelled Heat 1

From Altenberg, Germany

Once again snow is an issue in Germany. The first ten sliders came down in just about ideal conditions, but as USA’s Katie Uhlaender took the start area, the snow began to pick up. The middle of the pack appeared to be the most affected by the heavier, wet snow, with the weather lifting for the final five or six athletes. World Cup leader Olga Potylitsina crashed coming off Turn 4 where so many other athletes also had trouble. While she was able to regain her footing on the sled, her time of 1:06 and some change couldn’t get her into the second heat.

This has all become a moot point, however as the first heat has been thrown out due to weather. Track conditions today were far better than the conditions in Winterberg, and those times were left to stand. Plenty of top athletes then had to slide through awful track conditions, with many of the top 10 not making the second heat. Today, save for five or six slides in the middle, athletes ranked roughly where they had in previous events.

With that said, here’s how they finished in the now non-existant heat 1:

Pos	Name	Nation	Draw	Run 1
1	Anja Huber	GER	4	59.01
2	Katharina Heinz	GER	3	59.44
3	Marion Thees	GER	2	59.46
4	Shelley Rudman	GBR	6	59.49
5	Mellisa Hollingsworth	CAN	7	59.60
6	Amy Gough	CAN	9	59.93
7	Sarah Reid	CAN	1	59.95
8	Katie Uhlaender	USA	11	60.06
9	Emma Lincoln-Smith	AUS	8	60.85
10	Anne O’Shea	USA	5	61.02
11	Lucy Katherine Chaffer	AUS	14	61.03
12	Katherine Eustace	NZL	21	61.19
13	Lelde Priedulena	LAT	24	61.25
14	Amy Williams	GBR	13	61.42
15	Olga Nikandrova	RUS	18	61.58
16	Joska Le Conte	NED	17	61.74
17	Kimber Gabryszak	USA	20	61.81
18	Barbara Hosch	SUI	23	62.01
19	Maria Orlova	RUS	15	62.12
20	Janine Flock	AUT	12	62.39
21	Nozomi Komuro	JPN	16	62.41
22	Maria Marinela Mazilu	ROU	22	62.81
23	Marina Gilardoni	SUI	19	63.03
24	Michaela Glaesser	CZE	25	63.17
25	Delia Andreea Ivas	ROU	26	64.26
26	Olga Potylitsina	RUS	10	66.48