South Korea's Olympic skeleton champion Sungbin Yun earned his tenth IBSF World Cup victory at Winterberg today ©IBSF

South Korea's Olympic skeleton champion Sungbin Yun earned his 10th World Cup victory at Winterberg today, holding off strong German opposition.

Victory in the women’s race at the second event in this season’s International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Cup went, by three hundredths of a second, to Germany’s world champion Tina Hermann.

Yun reached World Cup double figures as he finished just 0.05 seconds ahead of Germany’s Alexander Gassner in 1min 52.95sec.

Gassner’s compatriot Axel Jungk was third, 0.08 seconds off the winning total.

Latvia’s world champion Martins Dukurs stood third after a first run of 56.60sec, but slipped to fourth despite clocking 56.55 second time around.

Gassner and Jungk had stood fourth and fifth respectively after the first run, but finished first and second respectively on the second run.

Yun, however, did just enough as he finished fourth on the second run.

His compatriot Kim Jisoo looked ready for a breakthrough after following him home in second place in the first run, but then dropped down to sixth at the end, having finished 11th in the second run.

That still represented his best World Cup performance, and it was also Gassner’s World Cup best.

Germany’s world junior champion Felix Keisinger was fifth.

Third place was enough to lift Jungk to the top of the overall World Cup rankings with  617 points, with Dukurs now occupying second place on 612.

Russia’s defending overall champion, Alexander Tretiakov, dropped down to third place overall after finishing seventh.

Hermann showed huge consistency, winning the first run in 58.10 and taking only one hundredth of a second more on the second to finish with a winning total of 1:56.21.

Canada’s Mirela Rahneva almost claimed a dramatic win with the fastest time of the day on the second run, 58.01, but her earlier fourth place in 58.23 meant she had to settle for the silver medal.

Austria’s European champion Janine Flock was third on 1:56.37.

Germany’s Olympic silver medallist Jacqueline Lölling finished fifth and leads the overall women’s standings with 627 points.

Flock is second on 610 points, ahead of Hermann, who has 601.

Marina Gilardoni of Switzerland celebrated her best result in almost four years in fifth.

In her third ever World Cup race, Megan Henry of the United States celebrated her best result to date in seventh.