Skeleton America's Cup 2009/10

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In season 2009/10 was the America's Cup of Skeleton driver held for the tenth time. This season the competition series consisted of eight races, which were held in a triple, two doubles and a single event.

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. One athlete received 75 points for a win, the following starters correspondingly less. All points went into an overall ranking, which was fed from the four racing series World Cup , Intercontinental Cup as well as Europe and America's Cup, the FIBT Skeleton Ranking 2009/10 .

Men

Events

date place winner Second Third
December 1, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City United StatesUnited States Kyle Tress United StatesUnited States Chris Burgess CanadaCanada Joseph Cecchini
December 2, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City United StatesUnited States Kyle Tress CanadaCanada Joseph Cecchini United StatesUnited States Chris Burgess
December 3, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City United StatesUnited States Kyle Tress United StatesUnited States Chris Burgess New ZealandNew Zealand Iain Roberts John Farrow
AustraliaAustralia 
December 10, 2009 CanadaCanada Calgary AustraliaAustralia Anthony Deane Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho In-ho CanadaCanada Ryan Good
December 11, 2009 CanadaCanada Calgary AustraliaAustralia Anthony Deane United StatesUnited States Kyle Tress CanadaCanada Ryan Good
December 17, 2009 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid United StatesUnited States John Daly United StatesUnited States Chris Burgess United StatesUnited States Kyle Tress
December 18, 2009 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid United StatesUnited States John Daly United StatesUnited States Kyle Tress United StatesUnited States Chris Burgess
April 2, 2010 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid United StatesUnited States Matthew Antoine United StatesUnited States Luke Schulz United StatesUnited States Caleb Smith

Men's individual ranking

space athlete country Points
1 Kyle Tress United StatesUnited States United States 500
2 Chris Burgess United StatesUnited States United States 373
3 Anthony Deane AustraliaAustralia Australia 356
4th Yūki Sasahara JapanJapan Japan 293
5 John Farrow AustraliaAustralia Australia 278
6th Joseph Cecchini CanadaCanada Canada 268
7th Brad Stewart United StatesUnited States United States 241
8th Noriyasu Ato JapanJapan Japan 237
9 Keisuke Kondo JapanJapan Japan 222
10 Greg Maidment CanadaCanada Canada 209

Women

Events

date place winner Second Third
December 1, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City CanadaCanada Diana Gruber CanadaCanada Robynne Thompson CanadaCanada Jaclyn LaBerge
December 2, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City CanadaCanada Jaclyn LaBerge CanadaCanada Diana Gruber CanadaCanada Robynne Thompson
December 3, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City CanadaCanada Jaclyn LaBerge CanadaCanada Lanette preacher CanadaCanada Diana Gruber
December 10, 2009 CanadaCanada Calgary CanadaCanada Lanette preacher CanadaCanada Robynne Thompson JapanJapan Takako Ōmukai
December 11, 2009 CanadaCanada Calgary CanadaCanada Lanette preacher CanadaCanada Jaclyn LaBerge New ZealandNew Zealand Louise Corcoran
December 17, 2009 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid AustraliaAustralia Michelle Steele AustraliaAustralia Lucy Chaffer CanadaCanada Lanette preacher
December 18, 2009 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid AustraliaAustralia Lucy Chaffer AustraliaAustralia Michelle Steele United StatesUnited States Keslie Tomlinson
April 2, 2010 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid United StatesUnited States Anne O'Shea United StatesUnited States Rachelle Rasmussen United StatesUnited States Kimber Gabryszak

Individual women ranking

space athlete country Points
1 Jaclyn LaBerge CanadaCanada Canada 388
2 Lanette preacher CanadaCanada Canada 370
3 Robynne Thompson CanadaCanada Canada 317
4th Takako Ōmukai JapanJapan Japan 311
5 Rachelle Rasmussen United StatesUnited States United States 296
6th Tracey Anderson United StatesUnited States United States 282
7th Diana Gruber CanadaCanada Canada 263
8th Louise Corcoran New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 262
9 Joy Bryant United StatesUnited States United States 232
10 Sabrina Hiteshew Wilson United StatesUnited States United States 156

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