Park City (pps) Sylke Otto is the undisputed “queen” of the Suzuki Challenge Cup to be carried out in Park City on Friday December 1 st , 2006. Prior to the eighth edition of the series, carried out in a knockout system, Germany’s two-time Olympic champion boasts as many as six victories in the overall rankings. Only in the 2004-05 season Otto had to bow to Ukraine’s Natalia Yakushenko. However, the number of Otto’s individual victories is even more impressive: of the so far 28 events she won no less than 18.

Two-time Olympic champion Armin Zoeggeler (Italy) heads the men’s ranking with two overall victories. David Moeller of Germany boasts the highest number of individual victories (six), followed by Armin Zoeggeler with five and Georg Hackl (Germany) with four.

In the doubles, US Americans Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin as well as the Olympic silver medallists André Florschuetz/Torsten Wustlich (Germany) gained two overall victories. With eight individual wins Florschuetz/Wustlich head the rankings ahead of their teammates Skel/Woeller (five).