FIBT World Cup - Round 3 - Men's Skeleton

From Winterberg, Germany

Today was set to be the culmination of the first attempt of a three-run skeleton event, with the first two heats on Friday like normal. Instead of just deciding things after taking the top 20 after the first run, the top 10 after the second run were to go to a slide-off. With weather not playing nicely, only one run was taken Friday.

Saturday, weather played a factor once again. The “slowest” slider from Friday of the final 10, Kristan Bromley would set a pace just as the snow started to come down once again. His time would place him fourth overall, with slider after slider unable to keep up. Tomass Dukurs would suffer from an awful start, and fell back, allowing Frank Rommel to move to the podium, just ahead of Alexander Tretiakov. Surprising no one, Martins Dukurs takes the gold medal.

Final results:

Pos	Name	Nation	Run 1	Final Run
1	Martins Dukurs	LAT	57.26	57.90
2	Frank Rommel	GER	58.00	58.22
3	Alexander Tretiakov	RUS	57.55	58.29
4	Kristan Bromley	GBR	58.22	58.89
5	Eric Neilson	CAN	58.13	59.21
6	Alexander Gassner	GER	57.96	59.27
7	Tomass Dukurs	LAT	57.64	59.33
8	Alexander Kroeckel	GER	57.99	59.37
9	Michael Douglas	CAN	58.10	59.43
10	Andy Wood	GBR	58.18	59.91
11	Sergei Chudinov	RUS	58.34
12	Adam Pengilly	GBR	58.41
13	Matthias Guggenberger	AUT	58.44
14	John Daly	USA	58.52
15	Shinsuke Tayama	JPN	58.56
16	Hiroatsu Takahashi	JPN	58.59
17	John Fairbairn	CAN	58.65
18	Maurizio Oioli	ITA	58.70
19	Matthew Antoine	USA	58.73
20	Anze Setina	SLO	58.91
21	Raphael Maier	AUT	58.93
22	Ander Mirambell	ESP	59.22
23	Kyle Tress	USA	59.28
24	Silviu Alexandru Mesarosi	ROU	59.29
25	Giovanni Mulassano	ITA	59.46
26	Lukas Kummer	SUI	59.67
27	Michael Hoefer	SUI	59.72
28	Michael Coutts	NZL	59.85