Skeleton: Champion Rudman
2006 Olympic silver medallist wins World Cup crown for first time
Last Updated: February 10, 2012 8:50am
Shelley Rudman: Won the skeleton World Cup crown for the first time
Britain enjoyed a golden finale to the skeleton season in Calgary as Elizabeth Yarnold won the last round of competition, with team-mate Shelley Rudman finishing third to clinch overall World Cup victory for the first time.
Yarnold edged out 2008 world champion Anja Huber of Germany by just over half a second to clinch her second victory of the eight-race season.
But it was Rudman - who took silver at the 2006 Winter Olympics - who claimed the biggest prize as she did enough to be crowned overall champion.
Rudman finished tied for third alongside Canada's home favourite Amy Gough, giving her enough points to leap ahead of Germany's Marion Thees in the final standings.
Thees could manage only tenth place to finish on 1,458 points, while Rudman's fifth podium of the season saw her finish on top of the pile with 1,507 points.
Rudman was equal second after the first of her two runs and her six fastest time on the second was good enough to clinch a first World Cup title.
It is Britain's first World Cup crown for ten years, their last success coming in 2002 when Alex Coomber (nee Hamilton) took the crown.
