Humphries denied overall title as Rissling takes bobsleigh bronze

The World Cup women's bobsleigh season wrapped up on a high note for one of Canada's pilots on Saturday in Pyeongchang, while the other was left off the podium, and missed the overall title by a mere 14 points.

Alysia Risslingguided her sled and brakeman Cynthia Appiah to a bronze-medal finish on the 2018 Olympic track, while Kaillie Humphries and Melissa Lotholz finished off the podium in fifth place.

With Jamie Greubel-Poser winning gold in the Pyeongchang event, the American pilottook the 225 points awarded to the winner and wrapped up the women's overall title with a total of 1644 points on the season.

Humphries who came into Saturday's race with a small27 point lead in the standings took 184 points for her fifth-place result, and finished second overall with 1630 points.

Alysia Rissling, Cynthia Appiah 'brought it' to track in Pyeongchang

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From Pyeongchang, South Korea

American pilot Elana Meyers Taylor scored bronze in the race and took third overall on the season.

Nick Poloniato, Lascelles Brown narrowly miss 2-man podium in Korea

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The Canadian duo earned a fourth place result on Saturday at a World Cup event in Pyeongchang, finishing +0.39 seconds back.

Rissling's first podium finish of the season helped her finished eighth in the overall standings with a total of 1016 points.

"You always go to bed wishing you have a chance to medal, but whether it is realistic or not is a different story," Rissling said."Cynthia and I went into this race with high expectations of our ourselves. We were pushing fast in training and considering it's the last race of the year, our bodies felt good.

"Over the next seven months I'm going make sure I do everything I can throughout the summer so I'm prepared when I get to this spot again in February."

Canadian men all finish in top-10

On the men's side, Canadian pilot Nick Poloniatoand brakeman Lascelles Brownwere justfive-hundredths of a secondoff the podium, taking a fourth-place finish.

Germany's Friedrich, Margis win 2-man gold in Korea

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Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis finished first overall on Saturday in Pyeongchang with a winning time of 1:40.82.

Germany's Francesco Friedrich and Thirsten Margiswon gold in 1:40.82, followed by Lativa'sOskars Kibermans and Matiss Miknis (0.30), and fellow Germans Johannes Lochner and Joshua Bluhm(0.34).

The Canadian sled of Chris Spring and Neville Wrightweresixth (0.52) while Justin Kripps and Jesse Lumsden were seventh (0.53).

The final standings have Krippsas the topCanadian pilot in ninth place (976), Spring was 14th (730), and Poloniatowas 21st(487) in his rookie campaign.

"We didn't get the result we wanted in the two-man because of a key mistake at the top of the track," Kripps said. "I tried to be too cute in corner two and it backfired. I didn't make the same mistake twice and was happy to have the second fastest run in the second heat.

"I think this event is a key opportunity to test lines and equipment and we've gotten what we needed to out of it."