2012 FIBT World Championships - Men's Skeleton

From Lake Placid, USA

The surprise after heat 1 from Lake Placid isn’t that there’s a lead for Martins Dukurs, but that the lead is as small as it is. Dukurs had a very bumpy run down Mt. Van Hoevenberg, but the Latvian was still able to establish a lead over German Frank Rommel. It’s .23 from first to second, with the elder Dukurs, Tomass, third.

American Matt Antoine sits fourth, just ahead of kiwi Ben Sandford.

John Daly for team USA is 11th, while Canadians Fairbairn, Douglas and Neilson sit T-8th, 13th, and 15th.

Pos	Name	Nation	Draw	Run 1
1	Martins Dukurs	LAT	3	53.77
2	Frank Rommel	GER	2	54.00
3	Tomass Dukurs	LAT	4	54.13
4	Matthew Antoine	USA	9	54.28
5	Ben Sandford	NZL	15	54.31
6	Sergei Chudinov	RUS	8	54.37
7	Kristian Bromley	GBR	6	54.44
8	John Fairbairn	CAN	11	54.45
8	Adam Pengilly	GBR	13	54.45
10	Alexander Kroeckel	GER	1	54.60
11	John Daly	USA	16	54.66
12	Alexander Gassner	GER	7	54.70
13	Michael Douglas	CAN	12	54.78
14	Mathias Guggenberger	AUT	10	54.86
15	Eric Neilson	CAN	14	54.95
16	Ed Smith	GBR	18	54.96
17	Alexander Tretiakov	RUS	5	55.29
18	Anton Batuev	RUS	19	55.31
19	Maurizio Oioli	ITA	21	55.37
20	Shinsuke Tayama	JPN	23	55.39
21	Raphael Maier	AUT	17	55.59
22	Hiroatsu Takahashi	JPN	20	55.62
23	Lukas Kummer	SUI	25	55.66
24	Michael Hoefer	SUI	22	55.69
25	Silviu Alexanderu Mesarosi	ROU	27	55.73
26	Ander Mirambell	ESP	24	55.74
27	Axel Jungk	GER	26	55.83
28	Alexandros Kefalas	GRE	28	56.11
29	Bradley Chalupski	ISR	30	56.57
30	Urs Vescoli	AUS	29	57.19
31	Tae-Rae Kim	KOR	31	59.55