Skeleton America's Cup 2007/08

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In season 2007/08 was the America's Cup of Skeleton driver held for the eighth time. In addition to the European Cup, the competition was part of the foundation of the Intercontinental Cup, which was held for the first time, as well as the World Cup .

Eligible to start were five athletes from the Canadian, US and Japanese associations as well as four starters from South Korea (men only), Australia and New Zealand. All not already listed countries of the American double continent, Asia and Australia and Oceania were each entitled to three starting places. The remaining countries from Europe and Africa were each allowed two starting places.

Men

Events

date place winner Second Third
January 11, 2008 United StatesUnited States Park City CanadaCanada Jeff Pain United KingdomUnited Kingdom Chris Type JapanJapan Yūki Sasahara
January 12, 2008 United StatesUnited States Park City JapanJapan Yūki Sasahara JapanJapan Yuzuru Hanyūda CanadaCanada Paul Fraser
January 19, 2008 CanadaCanada Calgary United StatesUnited States Jeff Pain United KingdomUnited Kingdom Andy Wood GermanyGermany Michi Halilovic
January 20, 2008 CanadaCanada Calgary CanadaCanada Jamie Landry New ZealandNew Zealand Iain Roberts CanadaCanada John Fairbairn
April 4, 2008 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid United StatesUnited States John Daly United StatesUnited States Caleb Smith GermanyGermany Sebastian Haupt
April 5, 2008 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid United StatesUnited States John Daly GermanyGermany Frank Rommel United StatesUnited States Chris Burgess

Men's individual ranking

space athlete country Points
1 Yūki Sasahara JapanJapan Japan 258
2 Chris Burgess United StatesUnited States United States 229
3 Yuzuru Hanyūda JapanJapan Japan 210
4th Charles Wlodarczak CanadaCanada Canada 199
5 Jamie Landry CanadaCanada Canada 187
6th John Fairbairn CanadaCanada Canada 175
Hiroatsu Takahashi JapanJapan Japan 175
8th John Daly United StatesUnited States United States 150
Jeff Pain CanadaCanada Canada 150
10 Jun Takeuchi JapanJapan Japan 146

Women

Events

date place winner Second Third
January 11, 2008 United StatesUnited States Park City New ZealandNew Zealand Louise Corcoran United KingdomUnited Kingdom Donna Creighton United KingdomUnited Kingdom Samantha Backwell
January 12, 2008 United StatesUnited States Park City AustraliaAustralia Teniele Richards CanadaCanada Darla Deschamps United StatesUnited States Cassie Revelli
January 19, 2008 CanadaCanada Calgary GermanyGermany Katharina Heinz GermanyGermany Julia Eichhorn United StatesUnited States Rebecca Sorensen
January 20, 2008 CanadaCanada Calgary New ZealandNew Zealand Louise Corcoran United StatesUnited States Keslie Ann Tomlinson United StatesUnited States Rebecca Sorensen
April 4, 2008 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid GermanyGermany Anja Huber GermanyGermany Marion Trott United KingdomUnited Kingdom Shelley Rudman
April 5, 2008 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid United KingdomUnited Kingdom Shelley Rudman GermanyGermany Anja Huber United StatesUnited States Anne O'Shea

Individual women ranking

space athlete country Points
1 Louise Corcoran New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 248
2 Darla Deschamps CanadaCanada Canada 224
3 Cassie Revelli United StatesUnited States United States 204
4th Teniele Richards AustraliaAustralia Australia 194
5 Rebecca Sorensen United StatesUnited States United States 191
6th Kimber Gabryszak United StatesUnited States United States 149
7th Micaela Widmer CanadaCanada Canada 148
8th Anja Huber GermanyGermany Germany 140
Shannon Hinds CanadaCanada Canada 140
10 Michelle Bartleman CanadaCanada Canada 134

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