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Aussie slider goes one better

 

Aussie slider goes one better

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Michelle Steele has improved one place in her second skeleton World Cup of the season, finishing eighth on the 2002 Olympic track in Park City. Steele slid to a two-run combined time of one minute 42.16 seconds, 1.26 seconds behind the winning time of American Katie Uhlaender. Olympic Winter Institute team-mate Emma Lincoln-Smith was in 12th place, 1.55 seconds behind the winner.

Michelle Steele has improved one place in her second skeleton World Cup of the season, finishing eighth on the 2002 Olympic track in Park City.

Steele slid to a two-run combined time of one minute 42.16 seconds, 1.26 seconds behind the winning time of American Katie Uhlaender.

Olympic Winter Institute team-mate Emma Lincoln-Smith was in 12th place, 1.55 seconds behind the winner.

The silver medal went to Swiss slider Maya Pedersen, the Torino 2006 champion, with Canadian Michelle Kelly taking bronze.

Uhlaender leads the World Cup standings on 200 points after consecutive victories.

After finishing in ninth place in the opening World Cup of the season in Calgary, 20-year-old Steele is now ranked equal seventh on the season standings on 95 points, with Lincoln-Smith back in 14th place on 63 points.

The third event of the season will take place in Lake Placid, New York, on December 16.