Skeleton Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

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Edited January 20, 2025 by Sindo

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Pre-season starting with  National races.

 

https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/detail/olympic-and-world-champion-grotheer-wins-german-skeleton-championship-for-the-first-time

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Important Asian Cup double header last weekend in Pyeongchang - basically it was pretty much the full World Cup tour involved.  Would you believe a Win and a Second Place for........

 

IBSF | International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation: Result

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Pan American Championships results

M:
Josip Brusic 

 Ryan Kuehn

 Zander Greco

 

W:

Laura Vargas

 Katie Tannenbaum

Liesel Baker    

Edited November 22, 2025 by intoronto

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7 hours ago, intoronto said:

Pan American Championships results

M:
Josip Brusic 

 Ryan Kuehn

 Zander Greco

 

W:

Laura Vargas

 Katie Tannenbaum

Liesel Baker    

Does this event count to Olympics qualifications?

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29 minutes ago, rybak said:

Does this event count to Olympics qualifications?

Yes. They will distribute quoats according to this rankings (7 best results):
https://www.ibsf.org/en/races-and-results/rankings/2025/men-s-skeleton/ibsf/#rankings

 

Canada did not compete at World Cup but is present here.

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3 hours ago, rybak said:

Does this event count to Olympics qualifications?

olympic qualification is based on ranking points regardless of what level they compete at. 1st place at this NA cup race is about equal to 13th in a world cup race I believe. 

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3 hours ago, avlar said:

Yes. They will distribute quoats according to this rankings (7 best results):
https://www.ibsf.org/en/races-and-results/rankings/2025/men-s-skeleton/ibsf/#rankings

 

Canada did not compete at World Cup but is present here.

Canada did compete in the men's event at the wordle cup

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12 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Canada did compete in the men's event at the wordle cup

Now wordle is a fun game and all but I don't think you can get olympic qualification points from playing it

 

/s

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10 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Now wordle is a fun game and all but I don't think you can get olympic qualification points from playing it

 

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