(Winterberg) Canadian Hallie Clarke won the women’s event at the skeleton and bobsleigh world championships on Friday.
The 19-year-old from Brighton, Ontario clocked three minutes and 51.27 seconds in four races, becoming the youngest skeleton champion in history.
Brighton is halfway between Kingston and Toronto.
Clarke was deadlocked with Germany’s Hannah Neise after three races before clocking 56.93, the fastest of the competition.
“It’s crazy, it still seems like a dream to me,” said Clarke, quoted by the International Skeleton and Bobsleigh Federation website. My goal was above all to have fun. I didn’t expect to be in this position at all. »
Kim Meylemans of Belgium finished second, 22 hundredths behind Clarke.
It was a very first podium for his country at the Skeleton Worlds.
Neise, 2022 Olympic champion, obtained bronze by finishing 26 hundredths behind the winner.
Clarke won silver in the 2022 World Cup in Whistler.
She is the second Canadian to win at the Worlds after Michelle Kelly in 2003.
Bronze medalist at last year’s Worlds in St. Moritz, Mirela Rahneva, from Ottawa, this time had to settle for seventh place.
Jane Channell, from Calgary, finished in 11the rank.