2015 Luge America Pacific Championships

2015 Luge America Pacific Championships
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Single seater	Christopher Mazdzer	Erin Hamlin
Two-seater	Walker / Snith
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The 2015 Luge America Pacific Championships were held from December 17 to 19, 2015 as part of the 4th World Cup race of the 2015/16 season on the bobsleigh and racing sled track at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary , Canada . There were competitions in the single-seater for men and women and the two-seater. All competitions were decided in two runs, the results of the World Cup races in the respective disciplines were used for the evaluation.

Erin Hamlin won in the women's singles, Christopher Mazdzer secured the title in the men’s singles and Tristan Walker and Justin Snith won the doubles classification .

Defending champion

At the last America-Pacific Championships in 2014 in Lake Placid, USA, members of the US team won with Erin Hamlin in the women's singles, Tucker West in the men’s singles and the doubles Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman .

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  Erin Hamlin, defending champion in the women's singles

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  Tucker West, defending champion in the men's singles

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  Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman, defending champions in doubles

Women's singles

Erin Hamlin, winner of the women's singles

space	sportswoman	Terms	time
01	Erin Hamlin	46.814  s 46.767 s	1: 33.581  minutes
02	Summer Britcher	46,949 s 46,763 s	1:+0.131 s
03	Kimberley McRae	46.836 s 46.962 s	1:+0.217 s
04th	Alex Gough	46.896 s 47.001 s	1:+0.316 s
05	Emily Sweeney	47.011 s 46.922 s	1:+0.352 s
06th	Arianne Jones	47.134 s 47.368 s	1:+0.921 s
07th	Raychel Michele Germaine	47.876 s 47.718 s	1:+2.013 s

Date: December 18
The title in the women's singles was won by the US defending champion Erin Hamlin ahead of her compatriot Summer Britcher and the Canadian Kimberley McRae . In the Race-in-Race World Cup races, Hamlin and Britcher finished on the podium 2 and 3 behind the German Natalie Geisenberger , McRae was fifth in the World Cup race. On the other places followed Alex Gough (6th in the World Cup race) ahead of Emily Sweney (7th in the World Cup race) and Arianne Jones (13th in the World Cup race) and Raychel Michele Germaine . Jones had qualified through the Nations Cup for the World Cup and thus the championship race for the America-Pacific Championship. Germaine was disqualified after the World Cup race.

Men's single seaters

Christopher Mazdzer, winner in the men's singles

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Christopher Mazdzer	45.172  s 45.456 s	1: 30.628  minutes
02	Tucker West	45.275 s 45.539 s	1:+0.340 s
03	Mitchel Malyk	45.399 s 45.569 s	1:+0.566 s
04th	Aiden Kelly	45.540 s 45.677 s	1:+0.846 s
05	Taylor Cloy Morris	45.676 s 45.701 s	1:+0.749 s
06th	John Fennell	45.651 s 45.971 s	1:+0.994 s

Date: December 19
America Pacific Champion was American Christopher Mazdzer ahead of his compatriot and defending champion Tucker West . The Canadian Mitchel Malyk came third ahead of Aiden Kelly from the United States. In 5th and 6th place followed Taylor Cloy Morris John Fennell , who, like Malyk, had qualified for the Nations Cup race. In the Race-in-Race World Cup, Mazdzer finished 2nd, West finished 7th, Malyk 10th, Kelly followed 15th, Morris finished 19th, Fennell finished 24th.

Two-seater

Tristan Walker and Justin Snith, winners in doubles

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Tristan Walker / Justin Snith	44.638  s 44.396 s	1: 29.034  minutes
02	Matthew Mortensen / Jayson Terdiman	44,551 s 44,563 s	1:+0.080 s
03	Justin Krewson / Andrew Sherk	44.926 s 44.595 s	1:+0.487 s
04th	Jacob Hyrns / Anthony Espinoza	44.971 s 44.929 s	1:+0.866 s
DNF	Matt Riddle / Adam Shippit	45.938 s DNF

Date: December 16
The doubles title was won by local heroes Tristan Walker and Justin Snith ahead of Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman and Justin Krewson and Andrew Sherk (both couples from the United States). Jacob Hyrns and Anthony Espinoza came in fourth . Matt Riddle and Adam Shippit crashed in the second run and did not finish. In the Race-in-Race World Cup, the America-Pacific champions finished fifth. Mortensen / Terdiman came in sixth directly behind them, Krewson / Sherk came in 14th Qualified were 16.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	2	3	1	6th
2	Canada	1	0	2	3

Web links

• America-Pacific Championships 2015 on the website of the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course
• Results of the Luge America Pacific Championships 2015 - Women's singles ( PDF ; 146.3 kB)
• Results of the American Pacific Luge Championships 2015 - men's singles (PDF; 145.8 kB)
• Results of the Luge America Pacific Championships 2015 - two-seater (PDF; 145.4 kB)