Canadians dominate skeleton race in Italy
APNews
Dec 04, 2009
Canada's Jon Montgomery and Britain's Shelley Rudman won World Cup skeleton races Friday on the 2006 Turin Olympic track.
Katie Uhlaender led the Americans with a fifth-place finish in Italy.
Montgomery's two-run time of 1 minute, 55.54 seconds was about a half-second better than Latvia's Martins Dukurs . Canada's Jeff Pain took third, while Americans Eric Bernotas and Zach Lund tied for ninth.
Rudman's time of 1:57.46 was easily good enough for gold in the women's race. Germany's Marion Trott was second and Canada's Mellisa Hollingsworth finished third.
Uhlaender is still recovering from a series of offseason knee surgeries. She finished one spot ahead of U.S. teammate Noelle Pikus-Pace.