Luge America Pacific Championships 2016

Luge America Pacific Championships 2016
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Single seater	Tucker West	Erin Hamlin
Two-seater	Mortensen / Terdiman
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The 2016 Luge America-Pacific Championships were held from December 15 to 17, 2016 as part of the 4th World Cup race of the 2016/17 season on the Park City Bobsleigh Track in the Utah Olympic Park in Park City , Utah . There were competitions in the single-seater for men and women and the two-seater. All competitions (with the exception of the two-seater race) were decided in two runs; the results of the World Cup races in the respective disciplines were used for the evaluation. Athletes who did not qualify for the World Cup in the previous Nations Cup and thus could not take part in the competition for the America-Pacific Championships were ranked in the order of their placements in the Nations Cup.

The titles all went to the US team. Erin Hamlin won in the women's singles, Tucker West secured the title in the men’s single and Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman won the doubles classification .

Defending champion

In the past America Pacific Championships in 2015 in the Canadian Calgary won Erin Hamlin in single-seater of women, Chris Mazdzer in single-seater of the men and the doubles pair of Tristan Walker and Justin Snith .

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  Erin Hamlin, defending champion in the women's singles

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  Christopher Mazdzer, defending champion in the men's singles

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  Tristan Walker and Justin Snith, defending champions in doubles

Women's singles

Erin Hamlin, winner of the women's singles

space	sportswoman	Terms	time
01	Erin Hamlin	44.649  s 44.608 s	1: 29.257  minutes
02	Emily Sweeney	44.718 s 44.666 s	1:+0.127 s
03	Alex Gough	44.769 s 44.815 s	1:+0.327 s
04th	Summer Britcher	44.850 s 44.935 s	1:+0.528 s
05	Kimberley McRae	45,000 s 45,010 s	1:+0.753 s
06th	Raychel Michele Germaine	45.113 s 45.031 s	1:+0.887 s
07th	Verónica María Ravenna	45.164 s 45.442 s	1:+1.349 s
08th	Brooke Apshkrum	45.412 s 45.485 s	1:+1.640 s

Date: December 17
The title in the women's singles was won by the US defending champion Erin Hamlin on her home track ahead of her compatriot Emily Sweeney and the Canadian Alex Gough . These three also finished on the podium in the Race-in-Race World Cup races. On the other places followed Summer Britcher (5th in the World Cup race) ahead of Kimberley McRae (7th in the World Cup race) and Raychel Michele Germaine (9th in the World Cup race) as well as the Argentine Verónica María Ravenna (16th in the World Cup race) and Brooke Apshkrum (19. in the World Cup race) from Canada. Germaine, Ravenna and Apshkrum had qualified via the Nations Cup for the World Cup and thus the rating race for the America-Pacific Championship.

Men's single seaters

Tucker West, winner in the men's singles

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Tucker West	46.392  s 46.289 s	1: 32.681  minutes
02	Christopher Mazdzer	46.554 s 46.489 s	1:+0.362 s
03	Taylor Cloy Morris	46.669 s 46.578 s	1:+0.566 s
04th	Jonathan Eric Gustafson	44.747 s 44.910 s	1:+0.846 s
05	Mitchel Malyk	46.907 s 46.654 s	1:+0.880 s
06th	Reid Watts	47.852 s 47.214 s	1:+2.385 s
07th	John Fennell
08th	Nicholas Klimchuk-Brown
DNS	Samuel Edney

Date: December 16
America Pacific champion was American Tucker West ahead of his compatriot and defending champion Christopher Mazdzer . With Taylor Cloy Morris , a third luge from the United States stood on the podium, Jonathan Eric Gustafson completed the four- fold victory of the Americans on their home track. The Canadians Mitchel Malyk and Reid Watts , who, like Morris and Gustafson, had qualified for the Nations Cup race, followed in 5th and 6th place . John Fennell and Nicolas Klimchuk-Brown did not succeed in this qualification, they were ranked in the order of the Nations Cup results of December 15th. The Canadian Samuel Edney did not run. In the Race-in-Race World Cup races, West achieved 4th place, Mazdzer finished 7th, Morris 11th and Gustafson 17th Malyk followed on 18th, Watts finished in 28th.

Two-seater

Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman, winners in doubles

space	athlete	time
01	Matthew Mortensen / Jayson Terdiman	44.986  s
02	Justin Garret Krewson / Andrew Sherk	1:+0.279 s
03	Jacob Hyrns / Anthony Espinoza	1:+0.353 s
04th	Tristan Walker / Justin Snith	1:+0.643 s

Date: December 16
There was only one run for the doubles. Local heroes Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman secured the doubles title ahead of Justin Garret Krewson and Andrew Sherk . The US-dominated podium was completed by Jacob Hyrns and Anthony Espinoza , who secured bronze in front of the Canadian defending champions Tristan Walker and Justin Snith . In the Race-in-Race World Cup, the America-Pacific champions finished 5th. Krewson / Sherk, who like Hyrns / Espinoza (11th) had qualified via the Nations Cup, finished in 10th place ahead of them. Walker and Snith came 18th . to the goal.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	3	3	2	8th
2	Canada	0	0	1	1

Web links and notes

Web links

• America-Pacific Championships 2016 on the website of the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course
• Results of the Luge America Pacific Championships 2016 - Women's singles ( PDF ; 92.7 kB)
• Results of the Luge America Pacific Championships 2016 - men's singles (PDF; 89.7 kB)
• Results of the Luge America Pacific Championships 2017 - two-seater (PDF; 90.9 kB)

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} In the Luge Nations Cup, athletes who do not belong to the seeded groups must qualify for the World Cup.