ALTENBERG, Germany -- Britain's Matt Weston is the World Cup men's skeleton overall champion again. And for the first time, Belgium's Kim Meylemans is the World Cup women's overall champion.
Locking up their status as favorites for Olympic gold at next month's Milan Cortina Games, Weston and Meylemans clinched their seasonlong titles Friday in the final races of the World Cup season in Altenberg.
Meylemans was third in Friday's women's race, behind Germany's Jacqueline Pfeifer and Susanne Kreher. That was more than enough to ensure Meylemans would end the season ahead of three-time World Cup overall champion Pfeifer in the season standings. Britain's Tabitha Stoecker finished the season third.
Britain's Marcus Wyatt won Friday's men's race, and Weston finished in a three-way tie for second with German teammates Christopher Grotheer and Axel Jungk.
Weston took the overall title with China's Zheng Yin second and Wyatt placing third.
The U.S. skeleton team won't announce its Olympic team until Monday, but Friday's finishes make it somewhat obvious that Kelly Curtis and Mystique Ro -- the top two American women in the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation rankings -- will be headed to the Milan Cortina Games.
Curtis was 17th on Friday, two spots ahead of U.S. teammate Sara Roderick and three spots ahead of Ro, who teamed with Austin Florian to win last year's world mixed skeleton championship. Florian also is a likely Olympic team nominee and was 14th in Friday's men's race.
USA Bobsled and Skeleton was waiting for word from the IBSF if it was getting a second men's Olympic quota spot.
Bobsled: World Cup monobob, two-man races Saturday in Altenberg, Germany.
Skeleton: Olympic races in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from Feb. 12-15.
