From Igls, AUT
Jan. 10, 2020 – Italian Amedeo Bagnis won his second straight IBSF European Cup gold medal on Friday, coming from behind for the victory.
Bagnis came into the second heat in third, but the Italian slider had both the quickest start of the second heat and the quickest one-run downtime of the race to cruise to a .39 second victory over Germany’s Felix Seibel, who came into the second heat in fourth.
Hiro Takahashi finished with a bronze medal, his best finish in any IBSF tour event since January 22, 2009 (European Cup, St. Moritz).
Italian Mattia Gaspari finished fourth, his best finish since 2013. Russian Vladislav Semenov finished fifth despite leading after the first heat, and Austrian Alexander Schlintner finished sixth.
Matt Weston led the way for Great Britain with an 11th place finish. Teammates Ben Fulker and Laurence Bostock finished 15th and 16th respectively.
Austin McCrary, the lone American in the field, finished 23rd in the 39-man field.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Amedeo Bagnis | ITA | 13 | 4.91 | 4.89 | 43.33 | 42.76 | 1:46.09 |
| 2 | Felix Seibel | GER | 10 | 5.19 | 5.12 | 53.38 | 53.10 | 1:46.48 |
| 3 | Hiroatsu Takahashi | JPN | 22 | 5.11 | 5.11 | 53.30 | 53.37 | 1:46.67 |
| 4 | Mattia Gaspari | ITA | 21 | 5.15 | 5.13 | 53.47 | 53.25 | 1:46.72 |
| 5 | Vladislav Semenov | RUS | 16 | 5.02 | 5.01 | 53.29 | 53.55 | 1:46.84 |
| 6 | Alexander Schlinter | AUT | 19 | 5.08 | 5.12 | 53.45 | 53.42 | 1:46.87 |
| 7 | Nathan Crumpton | ASA | 11 | 5.08 | 5.08 | 53.47 | 53.52 | 1:46.99 |
| 8 | Stefan Röttig | GER | 33 | 4.88 | 5.01 | 53.40 | 53.67 | 1:47.07 |
| 9 | Cedric Renner | GER | 17 | 5.21 | 5.19 | 53.79 | 53.37 | 1:47.16 |
| 10 | Samuel Keiser | SUI | 12 | 5.14 | 5.13 | 53.72 | 53.52 | 1:47.24 |
| 11 | Matt Weston | GBR | 26 | 5.00 | 5.14 | 53.62 | 53.70 | 1:47.32 |
| 12 | Manuel Schwärzer | ITA | 6 | 5.08 | 5.12 | 53.62 | 53.83 | 1:47.45 |
| 13 | Krists Netlaus | LAT | 7 | 5.06 | 5.04 | 53.61 | 53.94 | 1:47.55 |
| 14 | Ludwig Mannhardt | GER | 23 | 5.33 | 5.35 | 53.88 | 53.73 | 1:47.61 |
| 15 | Ben Fulker | GBR | 25 | 5.07 | 5.13 | 54.02 | 53.69 | 1:47.71 |
| 16 | Laurence Bostock | GBR | 27 | 5.03 | 5.05 | 54.11 | 53.70 | 1:47.81 |
| 17 | Jing Zhang | CHN | 8 | 5.13 | 5.11 | 54.11 | 53.97 | 1:48.08 |
| 18 | Lucas Defayet | FRA | 15 | 5.20 | 5.19 | 53.95 | 54.18 | 1:48.13 |
| 19 | Basil Sieber | SUI | 4 | 5.31 | 5.30 | 54.07 | 54.30 | 1:48.37 |
| 20 | Alexander Hanssen | NOR | 14 | 5.04 | 5.05 | 53.80 | 54.62 | 1:48.42 |
| 21 | Nicholas Timmings | AUS | 5 | 5.24 | 54.29 | |||
| 22 | Mihail Enache | ROU | 20 | 5.19 | 54.34 | |||
| 23 | Austin McCrary | USA | 24 | 5.45 | 54.44 | |||
| 24 | Toshiki Kuroiwa | JPN | 3 | 5.12 | 54.48 | |||
| 25 | Jean Jacques Buff | SUI | 29 | 5.45 | 54.81 | |||
| 26 | Haifeng Zhu | CHN | 9 | 5.09 | 54.83 | |||
| 27 | Wicher Nijkamp | NED | 31 | 5.20 | 54.92 | |||
| 28 | Gabriele Marenchino | ITA | 30 | 5.10 | 54.94 | |||
| 29 | Carl Adlers | SWE | 1 | 5.47 | 55.29 | |||
| 30 | Gregory Martin | RSA | 32 | 5.45 | 55.37 | |||
| 31 | Elliott Brown | AUS | 34 | 5.44 | 55.84 | |||
| 32 | Ludvig Sahlin | SWE | 2 | 5.40 | 55.85 | |||
| 33 | Jared Firestone | ISR | 18 | 5.24 | 55.92 | |||
| 34 | Adrian Rodriguez | ESP | 28 | 5.34 | 56.06 | |||
| 35 | Christofer Eriksson | SWE | 35 | 5.25 | 56.10 | |||
| 36 | Jincheol Kim | KOR | 37 | 5.44 | 56.40 | |||
| 37 | Roberth Klarqvist | SWE | 38 | 5.68 | 57.60 | |||
| 38 | Amadou Krubally | GAM | 39 | 5.11 | 58.16 | |||
| 39 | Sunwook Kim | KOR | 36 | 5.32 | 58.51 |
