Narracott needs to surge in Games skeleton

Skeleton athlete Jaclyn Narracott will need to make up around 1.5 seconds to be in the medal hunt at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.

Australian Narracott is 16th after the first two heats with an aggregate time of one minute 45.29 seconds.

The 27-year-old registered a track-best run of 52.53 seconds on her first attempt but rued errors on her 0.23-second slower next effort.

The world No.18 trails pacesetter Jacqueline Loelling, with the German recording 1:43.86.

"There were still a few tiny little mistakes but overall it was a much better run than some of my training runs" Narracott said.

"Run two definitely wasn't as good. I stuffed up corner four so came out too high on five and then again on nine so took a few hits in the chicane."

She will contest the third and fourth heats on Saturday.