Skeleton athletes Madelaine Smith and Fabian Küchler win IBSF Europe Cup races in Innsbruck

17 November 2018

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Innsbruck (RWH) Skeleton athletes Madelaine Smith from Great Britain and Fabian Küchler from Germany are the first winners of the season in IBSF Europe Cup 2018/2019.

At the Olympic ice track in Innsbruck, Briton Madelaine Smith won the first race ahead of Hannah Neise (GER) and the second ahead of British teammate Kimberley Murray. Janine Becker (GER) finished third in both races.

In men's skeleton, both victories went to Germany. Fabian Küchler banned Briton Jack Thomas and teammate Robin Schneider (GER) to rank two, respectively. Both third places went to Russian Evgeniy Rukosuev.

The IBSF Europe Cup Skeleton will continue on November 24th in Winterberg (GER) with the third of eight races this winter. ©RWH2018

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