Luge America Pacific Championships 2019
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| Men's | Ladies | |
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| Single seater |
 Tucker West
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Emily Sweeney
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| Two-seater |
 Walker / Snith
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2020 →
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The 2020 Luge America-Pacific Championships were held from December 12th to 14th, 2019 as part of the 3rd World Cup race of the 2019/20 season at the Whistler Sliding Center in Whistler , Canada .
There were competitions in the single-seater for men and women and the two-seater. All competitions were decided in two races; the results of the World Cup races in the respective disciplines were used for the evaluation. Athletes who could not qualify for the World Cup in the previous Nations Cup and thus did not take part in the competition for the America-Pacific Championships were classified in the order of their placements in the Nations Cup.
Defending champion
In the previous America Pacific Championships in 2018 in the US Lake Placid won Emily Sweeney in single-seater of women and Chris Mazdzer in single-seater of men. The title in the ranking of the two-seater could not be awarded, as only two starting pairs competed for the two-seater race and thus the three participant sleds required by the regulations were missed.
Emily Sweeney, women's singles
Christopher Mazdzer, men's singles
Women's singles
| space | athlete | Terms | time |
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| 1 |
Emily Sweeney
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38,862 s 38,850 s |
1: 17.712 minutes |
| 2 |
Carolyn Maxwell
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38.969 s 38.912 s |
+0.169 s |
| 3 |
Makena Hodgson
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38.976 s 38.938 s |
+0.202 s |
| 4th |
Brooke Apshkrum
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39.001 s 38.974 s |
+0.263 s |
| 5 |
Ashley Farquharson
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39.144 s, 38.938 s |
+0.370 s |
| 6th |
Brittney Arndt
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39.032 s 39.051 s |
+0.371 s |
| 7th |
Trinity Ellis
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39.117 s 38.978 s |
+0.383 s |
| 8th |
 Verónica María Ravenna
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39.082 s 39.121 s |
+0.491 s |
| 9 |
Summer Britcher
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40.641 s 38.824 s |
+1.753 s |
Date: December 13th
Nine starters took part in the women's singles race. While the Americans Emily Sweeney and Summer Britcher were already qualified via the seed list of the World Cup, their compatriots Brittney Arndt , Ashley Farquharson , as well as the Canadians Carolyn Maxwell , Makena Hodgson , Brooke Apshkrum and Trinity Ellis as well as the Argentinian Verónica María Ravenna qualified about the Nations Cup. After the first run, Emily Sweeney was already leading by more than a tenth. Maxwell, Hodgson, Apshkrum, Arndt, Ravenna, Ellis, Farquharson and Britcher followed on the other ranks. The latter had finished the run with a serious mistake and had reached the finish line more than 1.5 seconds behind.
In the second race Britcher set the fastest time in the America-Pacific classification, but could not improve further in the overall classification. Sweeney won the ranking with the second best running time. Farquharson improved to fifth with the fourth best running time. With Sweeney, a representative of the US team won on the Canadian track ahead of Maxwell and Hodgson from Canada. Her compatriot Brooke Apshkrum came in 4th. Arndt, Ellis and Ravenna followed Farquharson in 6th to 8th, Britcher was last.
In the World Cup race, Sweeney came in seventh, Maxwell crossed the finish line in 12th, Hodgson followed on 14th. Apshkrum drove in 16th, Farquharson on 18th, Arndt on 19, Ellis on 20 and Ravenna on 21st Goal and reached the last place in the ranking.
Men's single seaters
| space | athlete | Terms | time |
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| 1 |
Tucker West
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50.060 s 50.096 s |
1: 40.156 minutes |
| 2 |
Christopher Mazdzer
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50.157 s 50.141 s |
+0.142 s |
| 3 |
Reid Watts
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50.248 s 50.259 s |
+0.351 s |
| 4th |
Jonathan Eric Gustafson
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50.564 s 50.202 s |
+0.610 s |
| 5 |
Colton Dean Clarke
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50.489 s 50.430 s |
+0.763 s |
| 6th |
Cole Anthony Zajanski
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| 7th |
Devin Wardrope
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| 8th |
Dylan Morse
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| DSQ |
 Alexander Michael Ferlazzo
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Date: December 13th
After the first of two races, the American Tucker West was already in the lead with a lead of around a tenth of a second over his compatriot Christopher Mazdzer and Reid Watts from Canada. The Canadian Colton Dean Clarke took fourth place in front of the American Jonathan Eric Gustafson . The Australian Ferlazzo was disqualified because of an incorrect gap between the rail and the slide.
West also set the fastest time in the second run and thus secured victory in this continental classification. Mazdzer came silver before Watts. Gustafson improved to fourth place with the third-best running time, followed by Clarke to fifth. The Canadians Cole Anthony Zajanski , Devin Wardrope and Dylan Morse were ranked 6th to 8th, all of whom did not qualify for the previous Nations Cup (qualification race) Qualify for World Cup races in Lake Placid and therefore could not take part in the classification race for the America-Pacific Championships. Ferlazzo was placed at the bottom of the classification due to the disqualification.
West took 8th place in the Race-in-Race World Cup races, Mazdzer came 13th, Watts came 21st, Gustafson was 23rd, Clarke was 25th.
Two-seater
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| space | athlete | Terms | time |
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| 1 |
Tristan Walker / Justin Snith
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38.528 s 38.508 s |
1: 17.036 minutes |
| 2 |
Christopher Mazdzer / Jayson Terdiman
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38.648 s 38.602 s |
+0.214 s |
| 3 |
Caitlin Nash / Natalie Corless
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39.691 s 39.648 s |
+2.303 s |
Date: December 14th
With the Canadians Tristan Walker and Justin Snith as well as the Americans Christopher Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman , the participants of the previous year's competition, which could not be rated due to insufficient number of participants, entered. The third pair of doubles were the Canadian juniors Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless , who wrote elite luge history as the first all-female two-seater pair at a World Cup. Formally, the two-seater class on the part of the world association Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course was never limited to male starters, but these always dominated due to physical advantages. With the women's two-seater, a new class was introduced in the Youth A area at the beginning of the 2018/19 season, which will also be used at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games , but will not yet be introduced as a new discipline at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games . Nash / Coreless had already taken part in the premiere season of the women's two-seater in Youth A and also competed in the 2019/20 season in the World Cup races on the Bob-Rodel Igls artificial ice rink , where they finished fifth and sixth respectively.
After the first run, the local heroes Walker / Snith were already leading by more than 0.1 seconds over their American challengers Mazdzer / Terdiman. Their 16-year-old Canadian teammates Nash / Corless crossed the finish line more than 1.1 seconds back. In the second run nothing changed in this order. Walker / Snith won their fifth title at the America-Pacific Luge Championships with a margin of more than 0.2 seconds. Mazdzer / Terdim took second place, Nash / Corless achieved bronze with a gap of 2.3 seconds and thus secured a medal on their first participation.
In the World Cup race, Walker / Snith were 6th, Mazdzer / Terdiman 11th and Nash / Corless 22nd.
Sources and further information
Web links
- Luge America Pacific Championships 2020 on the website of the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d e f In the Luge Nations Cup, athletes who do not belong to the seeded groups must qualify for the World Cup.
- ↑ Emily Sweeney and Chris Mazdzer win titles. In: fil-luge.org. Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, December 17, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Oliver Kern: Two young pioneers. For the first time in Canada, two women toboggan run in the two-seater World Cup. They are hoping for an Olympic start soon. In: neue-deutschland.de. Neues Deutschland, December 15, 2019, accessed on December 15, 2019 .