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Noelle Pikus-Pace won the sixth women's FIBT World Cup skeleton race of the season with a new track record in St. Moritz, Switzerland on Saturday (January 11th).

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The women's skeleton World Cup continued in St. Moritz on Saturday.

Shelley Rudman was returning to the course where she clinched the 2012 World Cup title.

Third after the first run, the Briton set a new course record - one minute, 9.95 seconds - with her second.

Rudman moved into provisional first place with a combined time of two minutes, 20.32 seconds.

She was soon displaced by compatriot Elizabeth Yarnold though and eventually finished in third place.

Looking for a third successive World Cup win and fourth of the season in all, Yarnold edged past Rudman by 0.04-of-a-second with a combined time of two minutes, 20.28 seconds. But the Briton missed out to Noelle Pikus-Pace, who took first place and joined Yarnold on three wins for the season.

Pikus-Pace bettered Rudman's new track record by 0.04-of-a-second - one minute, 9.91 seconds - on her second run and topped the podium with a combined time of two minute, 19.88 seconds.

Yarnold has reached the podium in all of the current season's six races though - and sits 210 points clear of Pikus-Pace in the World Cup standings as a result.