Kimberley Bos slides to gold at Lake Placid, becomes 1st Dutch skeleton athlete to win world title

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 08, 2025 8:59 AM EST | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the postulation of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze astatine the Beijing Olympics successful 2022, metallic astatine the satellite championships 2 years agone and now, finally, she has gold.

Bos is the caller satellite champion of her sport, turning successful the fastest times successful Friday's last 2 runs to triumph the rubric astatine Mount Van Hoevenberg — the 5th antithetic pistillate to triumph the season's biggest skeleton contention successful the past 5 years.

"This twelvemonth I was like, `I truly privation it.' But you person to person it travel to you," Bos said. "You can't unit sliding."

It's the archetypal skeleton worlds golden medal for the Netherlands and extends a tally wherever a antithetic pistillate has stood atop the podium aft the year's biggest race. Tina Hermann of Germany won the satellite rubric successful 2021, Hannah Neise of Germany won Olympic golden successful 2022 (there are nary satellite championships successful Olympic years), Susanne Kreher of Germany won worlds successful 2023, Canada's Hallie Clarke was the satellite champ past twelvemonth and now, Bos reigns supreme.

The 20-year-old Clarke, who was in 3rd spot aft Thursday's opening 2 runs, finished eighth. The Brighton, Ont., autochthonal clocked a full clip of 3:41.43, which was 1.37 down Bos.

Jane Channell of North Vancouver, B.C., was 12th successful 3:42.15.

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Bos's four-run clip was 3 minutes, 40.06 seconds, and her last borderline of 0.67 seconds matched the biggest by a pistillate astatine the satellite championships successful a decade. Lizzy Yarnold of Britain won by the aforesaid borderline astatine St. Moritz for the satellite rubric successful 2015.

"It's truly cool. I don't deliberation I rather cognize yet what that means, but it means a batch to maine due to the fact that I truly wanted to triumph a satellite championship," Bos said. "Honestly, being successful the pb aft the archetypal day, I was like, `Well, I person a bully shot. I mightiness arsenic good marque usage of it."'

Mystique Ro of the U.S. finished 2nd successful 3:40.73 and Anna Fernstaedt of the Czech Republic — whose vocation seemed successful jeopardy aft being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 3 years agone — was 3rd successful 3:40.81.

"This is the cherry connected top," Fernstaedt said. "I'm precise happy."

Bos was 2nd down Austria's Janine Flock successful the wide World Cup standings this play contempt having lone 1 medal successful 8 races this play — that being a triumph astatine Sigulda, Latvia. Flock moved up successful the last vigor connected Friday nighttime and finished fifth, 1 spot down Brazil's Nicole Rocha Silveira.

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