Defending champion Hallie Clarke in 3rd place halfway through skeleton event at worlds

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Defending women's champion Hallie Clarke of Brighton, Ont., is successful 3rd spot aft Thursday's opening 2 runs astatine the skeleton satellite championships successful Lake Placid, N.Y.

Canadian made past past twelvemonth arsenic youngest pistillate to triumph skeleton satellite title

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 7:57 PM EST | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

A pistillate skeleton racer speeds down a track.

Defending women's champion Hallie Clarke of Brighton, Ont., is successful 3rd spot aft Thursday's opening 2 runs astatine the skeleton satellite championships successful Lake Placid, N.Y.

Clarke posted a two-run clip of 1:51.09, .22 seconds down person Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands.

Anna Fernstaedt of the Czech Republic was 2nd astatine 1:51.06.

Calgary's Jane Channell was 13th astatine 1:51.70.

WATCH | Clarke sits 3rd aft archetypal 2 runs:

Defending satellite skeleton champion Hallie Clarke successful 3rd spot aft 2 heats

Brighton, Ont., autochthonal Hallie Clarke sits successful 3rd spot aft 2 runs successful the women's skeleton lawsuit from the IBSF World Championships successful Lake Placid, N.Y. Last year, Clarke became the youngest satellite champion successful women's skeleton history.

Clarke became the youngest women's satellite champion successful skeleton past past twelvemonth erstwhile she won the rubric successful Winterburg, Germany, arsenic a 19-year-old.

The last 2 runs are scheduled for Friday. Watch unrecorded sum connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem starting at 4 p.m. ET.

"I'm truly arrogant of myself for being capable to calm my nerves down due to the fact that there's a antithetic magnitude of unit that comes with trying to support a rubric versus conscionable going into a satellite championships," said Clarke. who is aiming to go the archetypal pistillate to triumph back-to-back skeleton championships.

"But I'm truly blessed with my 2nd run. I made immoderate corrections from my archetypal and I'm truly relying connected that acquisition from past twelvemonth to usher maine done this."

WATCH | Clarke becomes youngest pistillate satellite champion:

Canadian teen Hallie Clarke becomes youngest pistillate satellite champion successful skeleton

19-year-old Hallie Clarke of Brighton, Ont., followed up connected her under-20 satellite inferior title skeleton triumph past twelvemonth successful Winterberg, Germany by winning golden astatine the 2024 satellite championships connected the aforesaid track.

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