From Pyeongchang, KOR
(February 15, 2025) – A few hours after winning a gold medal in the men’s doubles race, Wolfgang Kindl won his second gold medal of the day in the men’s singles event.
From the eighth starting spot, Wolfgang Kindl took the lead and held it as the remainder of the field did their best to match the Austrian’s downtime.
Dominik Fischnaller was the closest. The track record holder from the 2018 Olympic Games got within .029 of Kindl, while 2018 Olympic champion David Gleirscher sat third.
Latvia’s Kristers Aparjods put down the quick downtime of the second heat from fifth place to take the lead from Germany’s Felix Loch. He then held that lead as neither world champion Max Langenhan or Gleirscher were able to match his combined downtime, with Langenhan sliding ahead of Gleirscher.
Fischnaller’s second effort wasn’t quite as quick as his first, but was just quick enough to edge out Aparjods for the lead, with Kindl to go.
Kindl’s second effort was over a tenth slower than his first, and was slower than Aparjods’ slide, but more than enough to take the win ahead of Fischnaller and Aparjods.
The win was Kindl’s first on the season in men’s singles and second between singles and doubles. Fischnaller’s silver was a season-best, while Aparjods’ bronze was his second medal on the season.
Langenhan was fourth, .049 out of the medals. Gleirscher was fifth, and Loch sixth.
Nico Gleirscher, second in the World Cup standings, was eighth, one spot ahead of Australia’s Alex Ferlazzo in ninth.
Americans Tucker West and Jonny Gustafson were 12th and 13th, with West setting the quick start of the competition.
Langenhan holds a lead over Nico Gleirscher with one race to go. Loch is third, Kindl is fourth, with Jonas Müller fifth.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Wolfgang Kindl | AUT | 8 | 2.610 | 2.616 | 47.650 | 47.772 | 1:35.422 |
| 2 | Dominik Fischnaller | ITA | 17 | 2.567 | 2.583 | 47.679 | 47.835 | 1:35.514 |
| 3 | Kristers Aparjods | LAT | 15 | 2.597 | 2.596 | 47.819 | 47.714 | 1:35.533 |
| 4 | Max Langenhan | GER | 13 | 2.563 | 2.564 | 47.783 | 47.799 | 1:385.582 |
| 5 | David Gleirscher | AUT | 6 | 2.588 | 2.591 | 47.737 | 47.896 | 1:35.633 |
| 6 | Felix Loch | GER | 12 | 2.570 | 2.525 | 47.822 | 47.896 | 1:35.718 |
| 7 | Jonas Müller | AUT | 16 | 2.593 | 2.570 | 47.912 | 47.959 | 1:35.871 |
| 8 | Nico Gleirscher | AUT | 14 | 2.600 | 2.577 | 47.927 | 48.006 | 1:35.933 |
| 9 | Alexander Ferlazzo | AUS | 2 | 2.608 | 2.603 | 48.090 | 48.139 | 1:36.229 |
| 10 | Anton Dukach | UKR | 10 | 2.639 | 2.651 | 48.157 | 48.290 | 1:36.447 |
| 11 | Kaspars Rinks | LAT | 11 | 2.628 | 2.628 | 48.149 | 48.445 | 1:36.594 |
| 12 | Tucker West | USA | 5 | 2.511 | 2.559 | 48.125 | 48.543 | 1:36.668 |
| 13 | Jonathan Gustafson | USA | 4 | 2.610 | 2.601 | 48.193 | 48.529 | 1:36.722 |
| 14 | Mateusz Sochowicz | POL | 1 | 2.568 | 2.581 | 48.541 | 48.518 | 1:37.059 |
| 15 | Leon Felderer | ITA | 3 | 2.635 | 2.647 | 48.603 | 48.507 | 1:37.110 |
| 16 | Alex Gufler | ITA | 21 | 2.625 | 2.618 | 48.631 | 48.526 | 1:37.157 |
| 17 | Valentin Cretu | ROU | 26 | 2.531 | 2.587 | 48.913 | 48.881 | 1:37.794 |
| 18 | Seiya Kobayashi | JPN | 18 | 2.631 | 2.612 | 48.964 | 48.884 | 1:37.848 |
| 19 | Rasmus Moberg | SWE | 23 | 2.600 | 2.609 | 49.114 | 49.047 | 1:38.161 |
| 20 | Eduard-Mihai Craciun | ROU | 25 | 2.637 | 2.632 | 49.196 | 49.424 | 1:38.620 |
| 21 | David Nößler | GER | 20 | 2.635 | 49.229 | |||
| 22 | Danyil Martsinovskyi | UKR | 22 | 2.604 | 49.276 | |||
| 23 | Svante Kohala | SWE | 19 | 2.668 | 49.388 | |||
| 24 | Jing Li | CHN | 29 | 2.849 | 49.956 | |||
| 25 | Jimin Kim | KOR | 28 | 2.705 | 50.190 | |||
| 26 | Walter Vikström | FIN | 30 | 2.694 | 51.341 | |||
| DNF | Gintz Berzins | LAT | 9 | 2.584 | DNF | |||
| DNF | Timon Grancagnolo | GER | 7 | 2.623 | DNF | |||
| DNS | Andriy Mandziy | UKR | 24 | DNS | ||||
| DSQ | Zhenyu Bao | CHN | 27 | DSQ |