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Lizzy Yarnold wins World Cup in Sochi

Sunday, February 15 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Lizzy Yarnold wins skeleton World Cup gold in Sochi, while Austria's Janine Flock won the overall title.

    And Elana Meyers Taylor becomes the first female American bobsleigh winner for 14 years.

    While Oskars Melbardis and Daumans Dreiskens of Latvia claimed the two-man bobsleigh 2014-15 World Cup title in Sochi, Russia on Saturday (14 February).

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    Exactly a year to the day after winning Olympic gold for Britain on the same track, Lizzy Yarnold was back in Sochi going in the skeleton World Cup.

    Yarnold trailed Austrian Janine Flock in the overall standings going into the final race of the season and needed to finish top with the Austrian outside the top 5 to take the World title.

    Heading into the Brit's final run, she was looking to overhaul the lead of Russia's Maria Orlova.

    Yarnold would take top spot by 0.04 seconds, yet finished in second overall after Flock finished fourth.

    U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor finished her two-woman World Cup campaign in dominant fashion on Saturday with her sixth victory of the eight-race season.

    The American secured her first overall World Cup title last week, making her the first female U.S. pilot to do so for 14 years.

    Meyers Taylor continued her form on Saturday alongside Cherrelle Garrett, winning by 0.61 seconds over two runs from Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Melissa Lotholz.

    The American missed Olympic gold on the same Sochi track last year when she lost by one-tenth of a second to Humphries.

    Earlier in the two-man competition, Latvia's Oskars Melbardis secured his first season-long World Cup title in two-man bobsled after finishing second in the final race of the season.

    That was enough for the Latvians to secure the overall title with 1,684 points, 48 ahead of Switzerland's Beat Hefti and Alex Baumann.

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