At the Skeleton World Cup in Lake Placid, Axel Jungk is on a medal course – and defending champion Christopher Grotheer is also targeting precious metal.
The first two runs of the Skeleton World Cup in Lake Placid have completed the men. Axel Jungk and defending champion Christopher Grotheer are currently rank third and fourth. With two solid runs on the Olympic railway from 1932 and 1980, the two Germans only had to give up the strong British Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt.
Because the train increasingly floated and warm the ice in the second round, the rear athletes no longer came to the top speed. All skeletoni bite their teeth at the time of Yin Zheng (China).
Grotheer improves in run two
Only Christopher Grotheer, fourth after run one, proved that there was still something in it and pushed himself in front of Zheng with a new best time. His broad smile revealed that Grotheer was satisfied with his run – for the two final runs on Friday (from 4.45 p.m. in the Livestream at Sportschau.de) he was able to approach the medal ranks. Axel Jungk then went back on it and pushed himself in front of his teammates around 0.020.
However, Matt Weston lonely pulled his circles at the front. After the first two runs, the Briton surprisingly leads with 89 hundredths ahead of his compatriot Marcus Wyatt, who in turn is 12 hundredths ahead of Jungk.
Austria’s strongest skeletoni Samuel Maier, on the other hand, caught a used day. After a failed first run and a big mistake in the second round, it is currently far from rank 19 (+2.820 seconds).