Defending champion Laura Nolte from BSC Winterberg, who could create her World Cup Hattrick in the small slide after 2023 and 2024, is in third place in Lake Placid in Monobob at half-time.
Before the final runs three and four, she is only 0.25 seconds behind the leading US pilot Kaysha Love before the final runs three and four. The second is the Austrian Katrin Beierl.
Buckwitz only in seventh place
World Cupsemian winner Lisa Buckwitz from BRC Thuringia, who won three World Cups this winter in Monobob, is seventh, but is only 25 hundredths of a second behind.
The Kim Kalicki from TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden has no chance of a medal.