The 28-year-old Edese completed the third run in 1.01.86. Bos thus passed her competitors Jacqueline Lölling from Germany and Dan Zhao from China.
With a total time of 3.06.59 minutes, Bos starts the last run with 0.60 seconds behind the leader in the race. That’s Germany’s Hannah Neise, who went down in a track record of 1.01.44.
Neise is on a total of 3.05.99 and has a 0.14 second lead over Australian Jaclyn Narracott and 0.48 over her compatriot Tina Hermann.
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Bos is this year’s winner of the World Cup and the European Championship. It is the second Olympics for the skeleton star. She finished eighth at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.