Skeleton World Championship 2005

The 2005 Skeleton World Championship was held on February 20 and 21, 2005 in Calgary . There was one event for women and one for men. Both were carried out in four runs.

Results

Men

space	athlete	nation	time
1	Jeff Pain	Canada	3: 44.52
2	Gregor Stähli	Switzerland	+0.80
3	Duff Gibson	Canada	+1.30
4th	Kristan Bromley	United Kingdom	+1.73
5	Zach Lund	United States	+1.84
6th	Markus Penz	Austria	+2.37
7th	Phillippe Cavoret	France	+2.39
8th	Eric Bernotas	United States	+2.72
	Chris Soule	United States	equ.
10	Kazuhiro Koshi	Japan	+3.27
11	Kelly Forbes	Canada	+3.49
12	Martin Rettl	Austria	+3.52
13	Ben Sandford	New Zealand	+3.88
14th	Frank Kleber	Germany	+3.92
15th	Adam Pengilly	United Kingdom	+4.50
16	Matthias Biedermann	Germany	+4.69
17th	Yuzuru Hanyūda	Japan	43.89
18th	Florian Grassl	Germany	+5.04
19th	Alberto Polacchi	Italy	+5.10
20th	Cédric Tamani	Switzerland	+5.70
21st	Sergei Chudinov	Russia	2: 53.89
22nd	Shaun Boyle	Australia	2: 53.91
23	Konstantin Aladashvili	Russia	2: 53.95
24	Patrick Singleton	Bermuda	2: 54.21
25th	Paul Boehm	Canada	2: 55.61
26th	Maurizio Oioli	Italy	2: 56.53
27	Kwang-Bae Kang	South Korea	2: 58.35
DNR	Dirk Matschenz	Netherlands	1 run
DNS	Masaru Inada	Japan

February 20 and 21, 2005 - A total of 28 out of 29 registered participants took part. Only the top 20 starters were allowed to take part in the fourth and final race. The former German and now starting for the Netherlands Dirk Matschenz did not compete after the first round. The winner was Canadian Jeff Pain , who, apart from the second race, set the fastest times in all rounds. In the second run, the later silver medalist Gregor Stähli set the fastest time. Jeff Pain won the title for the second time since 2003 .

Women

space	athlete	nation	time
1	Maya Pedersen	Switzerland	3: 52.42
2	Noelle Pikus-Pace	United States	+0.10
3	Michelle Kelly	Canada	+0.76
4th	Kerstin Juergens	Germany	+1.37
5	Monique Riekewald	Germany	+1.41
6th	Lindsay Alcock	Canada	+1.44
7th	Katie Uhlaender	United States	+2.34
8th	Diana Sartor	Germany	+2.45
9	Tania Morel	Switzerland	+2.95
10	Mellisa Hollingsworth	Canada	+3.18
11	Lea Ann Parsley	United States	+3.91
12	Katie Koczynski	United States	+4.03
13	Melissa Hoar	Australia	+4.20
14th	Eiko Nakayama	Japan	+4.99
15th	Dany Locati	Italy	+5.12
16	Anna Shevtsova	Russia	+5.23
17th	Desiree Bjerke	Norway	+5,218
18th	Costanza Zanoletti	Italy	+5.49
19th	Natsuko Naka	Japan	+5.60
20th	Louise Corcoran	New Zealand	+5.77
21st	Monika Wołowiec	Poland	3: 02.29
22nd	Kelly Moffat	New Zealand	3: 02.80
DSQ	Shelley Rudman	United Kingdom

February 20 and 21, 2005 - A total of 23 participants were registered, the British Shelley Rudman was disqualified before the first run. Only the 20 best-placed starters were allowed to take part in the fourth and final race. Maya Pedersen , who celebrated her second world championship title after 2001 , set the fastest time in the first and third races and the second best time in the other two runs. The other two runs were won by silver medalist Noelle Pikus-Pace , who also achieved the second-best time in the third run. In the end, the first two places were only a tenth of a second apart. For the German participants, the World Cup was quite successful, all three starters were among the top eight. The second Swiss starter also made it into the top ten. Austrians were not at the start.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Switzerland	1	1	-	2
2	Canada	1	-	2	3
3	United States	-	1	-	1

Web links

• Result lists at the BSD