For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the gathering of the most important skeletal system medals is full. Bronze on the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver on the globe champions 2 years again and at the moment, lastly, she has gold.
Bos is the brand-new globe champ of her sporting exercise, kipping down the quickest occasions in Friday’s final 2 go to win the title at Mount Van Hoevenberg– the fifth numerous feminine to win the interval’s largest skeletal system race within the final 5 years.
“This year I was like, `I really want it.’ But you have to have it come to you,” Bos acknowledged. “You can’t force sliding.”
It’s the preliminary skeletal system globes gold medal for the Netherlands and expands a run the place a numerous feminine has truly stood atop the platform after the 12 months’s largest race. Tina Hermann of Germany gained the globe title in 2021, Hannah Neise of Germany gained Olympic gold in 2022 (there aren’t any globe champions in Olympic years), Susanne Kreher of Germany gained globes in 2023, Canada’s Hallie Clarke was the globe champ in 2014 and at the moment, Bos preponderates.
The 20-year-old Clarke, that was in third space after Thursday’s opening up 2 runs, ended up eighth. The Brighton, Ont., indigenous clocked an entire time of three:41.43, which was 1.37 behind Bos.
Jane Channell of North Vancouver, B.C., was twelfth in 3:42.15.
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Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands wins the women’s skeletal system event on the IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Bos’s four-run time was 3 minutes, 40.06 secs, and her final margin of 0.67 secs matched the most important by a feminine on the globe champions in a years. Lizzy Yarnold of Britain gained by the exact same margin atSt Moritz for the globe title in 2015.
“It’s really cool. I don’t think I quite know yet what that means, but it means a lot to me because I really wanted to win a world championship,” Bos acknowledged. “Honestly, being in the lead after the first day, I was like, `Well, I have a good shot. I might as well make use of it.”‘
Mystique Ro of the united state ended up second in 3:40.73 and Anna Fernstaedt of the Czech Republic– whose career appeared in danger after being recognized with Type 1 diabetes mellitus 3 years again– was third in 3:40.81.
“This is the cherry on top,” Fernstaedt acknowledged. “I’m very happy.”
Bos was 2nd behind Austria’s Janine Flock within the whole World Cup standings this era no matter having only one medal in 8 races this era– that being a win at Sigulda,Latvia Flock went up within the final heat on Friday night and ended up fifth, one place behind Brazil’s Nicole Rocha Silveira.
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19-year-old Hallie Clarke of Brighton, Ont., acted on her under-20 globe junior champion skeletal system win in 2014 in Winterberg, Germany by profitable gold on the 2024 globe champions on the exact same observe.
