Canada’s skeleton crew picked up two more World Cup medals on Friday in Winterberg, Germany, adding momentum to what has already been an impressive slide toward the Olympics.

Elisabeth Vathje won her second silver of the season, and third by a Canadian woman; while 38-year-old Dave Greszczyszyn bagged the first World Cup bauble of his career, a bronze.

The men’s race was shortened by bad weather to a one-run affair and Greszczyszyn finished 0.26 seconds behind winner Sungbin Yun of Korea and .20 seconds behind Martins Dukurs of Latvia, who took silver.

Greszczyszyn was in the same position after the first run at the previous World Cup stop in Whistler, but faded in the second run to finish seventh.

“Using Whistler and my previous results here gave me the confidence to know my abilities are there, and I have to take what comes with the sport,” said Greszczyszyn, a Brampton, Ont., native.

“I felt if I had a good push, some decent lines down the track and tried to push the limits of the sliding I could be there in the top six. I stayed focused and calm all day and, well, I got a top three.”

It was the first medal for the Canadian men since John Fairbairn won a bronze four years ago in St. Moritz.

“This is pretty cool because that was my first year sliding World Cup when Fairbairn got that medal,” Greszczyszyn said. “I knew on that day, I had the potential to do this too, and that the program does have some depth. Things went the way they did and this Olympic quadrennial has been a struggle on the men’s program. But we have heart, along with trainers and coaches who believe in us, and we believe in ourselves.”

Fellow Canadian Kevin Boyer was 12th and Barrett Martineau finished 28th.

In the women’s two-run race, Vathje finished 0.24 seconds behind Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling, who picked up her second victory and third medal of the year.

“I really enjoy (sliding) on this track, and my equipment really loves to fly here,” said Vathje, a 23-year-old from Calgary.

There were three Canadian women in the top six as Vathje was joined by Ottawa’s Mirela Rahneva in fourth and Jane Channell of North Vancouver in sixth. Channell won a silver in Whistler, while Vathje opened the season in Lake Placid by finishing second.

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