Bissonnette Wins in Park City

From Park City, USA

Feb. 15, 2020 – Canadian Lonnie Bissonnette edged out Sebastian Westin-Vippola for gold in Park City by .04 to take over the IBSF Parabobsled World Cup lead with one race remaining.

BIssonnette put down the fastest run of the race to open up a sizable lead over Italy’s Fabrizio Caselli and Westin-Vippola.

On the second run Westin-Vippola set the quick run of the heat and Caselli could not answer. The Italian’s second run was only 13th quickest, slow enough to drop him out of the medals. That left the door open for Bissonnette, who could only muster a run nearly .6 slower than Westin-Vippola’s trip down but enough to win by .04.

Westin-Vippola finished second, while Dave Nicholls jumped up from fifth to third in the second heat.

Caselli finished fourth, just ahead of Christopher Stewart and Sarah Frazier-Kim who rounded out the top six.

Corie Mapp, the points leader coming into Park City, finished tenth. That, combined with Bissonnette’s win dropped the Brit behind the Canadian in the World Cup points with just one race remaining.

Results:

Pos	Name	Nation	Bib	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Lonnie Bissonnette	CAN	10	54.35	55.50	1:49.85
2	Sebastian Westin-Vippola	SWE	8	54.96	54.93	1:49.89
3	Dave Nicholls	ISR	11	55.21	55.55	1:50.76
4	Fabrizio Caselli	ITA	3	54.94	55.83	1:50.77
5	Christopher Stewart	SUI	5	55.23	55.59	1:50.82
6	Sarah Frazier-Kim	USA	13	55.52	55.32	1:50.84
7	Artuers Klots	LAT	7	55.34	55.52	1:50.86
8	Nikolai Johann	GER	14	55.46	55.53	1:50.99
9	Israel Blanco	ESP	1	55.33	55.69	1:51.02
10	Corie Mapp	GBR	4	55.26	55.81	1;51.07
11	Steven Jacobo	USA	12	55.99	55.28	1:51.27
12	Mykola Levkun	UKR	2	55.17	56.16	1:51.33
13	Flavio Menardi	ITA	9	55.61	55.73	1:51.34
14	Frederick Evans	USA	17	55.38	56.25	1:51.63
15	Alvils Brants	LAT	18	55.75	55.96	1:51.71
16	Lee Thibeault	CAN	16	56.07	55.65	1:51.72
17	Guillermo Castilllo	USA	6	55.79	56.01	1:51.80
18	Michael Stevens	RSA	15	55.92	56.06	1:51.98