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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- Salt Lake City's Zach Lund has won his first World Cup skeleton gold medal.
Lund completed a first-place sweep for American sliders when his two runs this afternoon at Utah Olympic Park were 16-hundreths of a second faster than Canadian Jeff Pain.
Lund stood at the finish and watched as Russian Alexander Tretiakov got off to a great start on the final run, but faltered in the middle and the American's time held up for first.
Lund finished with a combined time of 1 minute, 38-point-15 seconds.
Lund is coming off a one-year doping suspension, which cost him a spot in the Turin Olympics. He tested positive last November for Finasteride, a banned substance often used as a steroid-masking agent. It also is found in a hair-restoration product Lund used.
U-S slider Katie Uhlaender remained perfect in the young World Cup season with her second victory in as many weeks earlier in the day.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV-12-07-06 1637MST
