Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2020 / Skeleton (Mixed)

Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2020
discipline	skeleton
gender	Mixed
Attendees	30 athletes from 9 countries
venue	Altenberg
Competition location	ENSO ice channel
Competition phase	1st of May
Medalist  Germany II Jacqueline Lölling Alexander Gassner  Canada II Jane Channell David Greszczyszyn  Italy I Valentina Margaglio Mattia Gaspari

The skeleton mixed competition at the 2020 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships was held on March 1st. Like all competitions at the World Championships, it was held on the ENSO ice track in Altenberg . It was the first time this form of competition was held at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships .

The German team consisting of Jacqueline Lölling and Alexander Gassner secured the first world championship title in this form of competition. Just 0.01 seconds behind the German team, Canadians Jane Channell and David Greszczyszyn took second place. Third place surprisingly went to the Italian team consisting of Valentina Margaglio and Mattia Gaspari . This bronze medal was a historic medal for Italian skeleton because for the first time in skeleton history Italy won a World Championship medal in skeleton.

Hints

The previous team competition, which since the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2007 the program of the World Championships was one, was by the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships in 2019 removed from the program and mixed-competition skeleton is replaced by the. The Altenberg skeleton mixed competition is not yet the format actually planned by the IBSF , which will premiere at the World Championship in Lake Placid the following year . Compared to this format, the reaction start was omitted and only the runtimes of the skeleton pilot and the skeleton pilot were added.

Two teams can be entered per nation, each consisting of a skeleton pilot and a skeleton pilot. International teams are not allowed in comparison to the previous team competition. The starting list is determined using the IBSF skeleton ranking . While the team with the lowest number of points starts at the beginning, the competition is ended with the team with the highest number of points.

Bottom line

space	team	Athlete		athlete		Total time (min)
		Surname	Time (min)	Surname	Time (min)
01	Germany II	Jacqueline Lölling	0: 58.55	Alexander Gassner	0: 56.84	1: 55.39
02	Canada II	Jane Channell	0: 57.99	David Greszczyszyn	0: 57.41	1: 55.40
03	Italy I	Valentina Margaglio	0: 58.40	Mattia Gaspari	0: 57.42	1: 55.82
04th	Great Britain II	Madelaine Smith	0: 59.04	Matt Weston	0: 56.81	1: 55.85
05	Germany I.	Tina Hermann	0: 59.01	Christopher Grotheer	0: 57.07	1: 56.08
06th	China I.	Lin Huiyang	0: 59.25	Yan Wengang	0: 56.85	1: 56.10
07th	United States	Kendall Wesenberg	0: 59.19	Austin Florian	0: 56.97	1: 56.16
08th	Switzerland	Marina Gilardoni	0: 58.11	Basil Sieber	0: 58.09	1: 56.20
09	Russia II	Julia Kanakina	0: 59.59	Nikita Tregubov	0: 56.95	1: 56.54
10	Canada I.	Mirela Rahneva	0: 59.23	Kevin Boyer	0: 57.52	1: 56.75
11	Great Britain I.	Laura Deas	0: 59.92	Marcus Wyatt	0: 56.89	1: 56.81
12	Russia I.	Jelena Nikitina	0: 59.73	Alexander Tretyakov	0: 57.10	1: 56.83
13	Austria	Janine Flock	1: 00.06	Florian Auer	0: 57.79	1: 57.85
14th	Italy II	Alessia Crippa	0: 59.35	Amedeo Bagnis	0: 58.91	1: 58.26
15th	China II	Zhu Yangqi	1: 02.77	Geng Wenqiang	0: 57.58	2: 00.35

Single results

Women

space	Athlete	country	Split time (s)					Running time (min)
			1	2	3	4th	5
01	Jane Channell	Canada II	5.38	23.10	33.05	41.52	49.28	0: 57.99
02	Marina Gilardoni	Switzerland	5.52	23.34	33.25	41.68	49.44	0: 58.11
03	Valentina Margaglio	Italy I	5.40	23.27	33.24	41.72	49.54	0: 58.40
04th	Jacqueline Lölling	Germany II	5.73	23.78	33.74	42.15	49.84	0: 58.55
05	Tina Hermann	Germany I.	5.70	23.88	33.99	42.52	50.28	0: 59.01
06th	Madelaine Smith	Great Britain II	5.65	23.63	33.60	42.16	50.12	0: 59.04
07th	Kendall Wesenberg	United States	5.87	23.98	33.87	42.39	50.34	0: 59.19
08th	Mirela Rahneva	Canada I.	5.51	23.46	33.53	42.26	50.30	0: 59.23
09	Lin Huiyang	China I.	5.52	23.49	33.72	42.35	50.35	0: 59.25
10	Alessia Crippa	Italy II	5.62	23.72	33.97	42.60	50.48	0: 59.35
11	Julia Kanakina	Russia II	5.38	23.44	33.72	42.44	50.47	0: 59.59
12	Jelena Nikitina	Russia I.	5.24	23.19	33.64	42.47	50.58	0: 59.73
13	Laura Deas	Great Britain I.	5.60	23.90	34.22	42.92	50.88	0: 59.92
14th	Janine Flock	Austria	5.77	23.87	33.88	42.41	50.77	1: 00.06
15th	Zhu Yangqi	China II	5.60	24.35	35.86	45.22	53.54	1: 02.77

Men

space	athlete	country	Split time (s)					Running time (min)
			1	2	3	4th	5
01	Matt Weston	Great Britain II	5.08	22.46	32.23	40.55	48.14	0: 56.81
02	Alexander Gassner	Germany II	5.06	22.50	32.34	40.69	48.29	0: 56.84
03	Yan Wengang	China I.	5.10	22.57	32.27	40.56	48.17	0: 56.85
04th	Marcus Wyatt	Great Britain I.	4.95	22.30	32.14	40.52	48.21	0: 56.89
05	Nikita Tregubov	Russia II	5.08	22.56	32.32	40.67	48.32	0: 56.95
06th	Austin Florian	United States	5.08	22.48	32.19	40.53	48.25	0: 56.97
07th	Christopher Grotheer	Germany I.	5.11	22.60	32.45	40.84	48.46	0: 57.07
08th	Alexander Tretyakov	Russia I.	4.89	22.29	32.17	40.64	48.37	0: 57.10
09	David Greszczyszyn	Canada II	5.29	22.84	32.63	41.05	48.76	0: 57.41
10	Mattia Gaspari	Italy I	5.27	22.89	32.76	41.16	48.83	0: 57.42
11	Kevin Boyer	Canada I.	5.15	22.70	32.56	40.97	48.73	0: 57.52
12	Geng Wenqiang	China II	5.13	22.60	32.48	40.90	48.73	0: 57.58
13	Florian Auer	Austria	5.26	22.99	32.88	41.30	49.08	0: 57.79
14th	Basil Sieber	Switzerland	5.36	23.11	33.01	41.47	49.28	0: 58.09
15th	Amedeo Bagnis	Italy II	5.09	22.67	32.74	41.50	49.65	0: 58.91

Web links

• Altenberg 2020 , official website
• List of results (PDF) in the IBSF database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lölling / Gassner as GER II win title at the first Skeleton Mixed Team World Championship. IBSF , March 1, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Bob / Skelton: IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg / BSD Preview - 2nd World Championships week. BSD , February 26, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Preview BMW IBSF World Championships Altenberg, GER. IBSF , February 25, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 (German).