Women's Skeleton Underway
New Zealand's women's skeleton racer Katharine Eustace will take on the Sanki Sliding Centre for day one a two-day
competition tonight (NZ 8.30pm). Eustace will race twice on each day reaching speeds in excess of 100 kilometres an hour
aiming to minimise time taken down the 1,184m course that features 17 corners and is the longest, and among the safest,
in the world.Times are accumulated over the two day race schedule with the four times being added together for a grand
total on which places are ranked.
Winter Performance Programme Director Ashley Light says the 38 year old first time Olympian has been achieving some good
times that see her secure a credible result tomorrow.“She’ll be going out and doing what she can, focusing on getting
all the components right and looking forward to a good couple of runs." he said. “Katharine is feeling confident, she
feels her training has gone exceptionally well and the jigsaw is about putting together runs on a new skeleton track and
that’s also coming together. You have to work out each corner on where you enter and exit and once you put it all
together you find out how good you are. She has demonstrated she is capable of a credible top ten result.”Eustace slides
in heat 1 tomorrow with bib number 9.