Russia (bbabo.net), - German skeletonist Hanna Neiss won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Russian athletes remained far outside the top three.

After four attempts, Hannah Neis showed a result of 4 minutes 07.62 seconds. At 0.62 seconds, she was ahead of the second representative of Australia, Jacqueline Narracott.

The bronze medal was taken by an athlete from the Netherlands Kimberly Bos.

Russian athletes dropped out of the number of contenders for awards even after the first day. As a result, the best result was shown by Yulia Kanakina, who became 11th. Alina Tararychenkova finished the competition in 15th place, and Elena Nikitina took 16th place.

Thus, at the Games in Beijing, Russian skeleton masters were left without medals. A day earlier, Alexander Tretyakov was fourth.

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