2012 FIBT World Championships – Men’s Skeleton – Heat 3

February 25, 2012 ken News, Skeleton News 0

From Lake Placid, USA

Martins Dukurs is one heat away from bringing home a World Championship.  All that stands between Dukurs and the title is one clean run down Mt. Van Hoevenberg.  Coming into the third heat, the Latvian had a .69 second lead.  When all was said and done in Heat 3, the lead was opened up to a 1.56 second lead.  Aside from his start times, Dukurs has had the fastest split at each point along the track through three heats.

Frank Rommel leads the race for second.  The German is .23 ahead of Ben Sandford, who passes Matt Antoine for third.  Antoine had a good slide, but Sandford’s was second quickest in Heat 3, and now the kiwi is .05 ahead of the American.  Sergei Chudinov is within shouting distance of the top 3, but will need a major improvement off his first three heat times.

John Daly makes it two Americans in the top 10 with his 3rd fastest run in heat 3, while John Fairbairn is the top Canadian in 9th.  Michael Douglas is 11th and Eric Neilson 18th.

Pos Name Nation Draw Run 1-2 Run 3 Total
1 Martins Dukurs LAT 3 108.14 54.34 162.48
2 Frank Rommel GER 2 108.83 55.21 164.04
3 Ben Sandford NZL 15 109.51 54.76 164.27
4 Matthew Antoine USA 9 109.32 55.00 164.32
5 Sergei Chudinov RUS 8 109.57 55.01 164.58
6 Tomass Dukurs LAT 4 109.44 55.19 164.63
7 John Daly USA 16 109.90 54.89 164.79
8 Alexander Gassner GER 7 109.93 55.25 165.18
9 John Fairbairn CAN 11 109.81 55.39 165.20
10 Alexander Kroeckel GER 1 109.82 55.54 165.36
11 Michael Douglas CAN 12 110.09 55.43 165.52
12 Kristian Bromley GBR 6 110.10 55.51 165.61
13 Alexander Tretiakov RUS 5 110.69 55.04 165.73
14 Adam Pengilly GBR 13 110.30 55.47 165.77
15 Ed Smith GBR 18 110.36 55.50 165.86
16 Mathias Guggenberger AUT 10 110.43 55.87 166.30
17 Anton Batuev RUS 19 110.88 55.44 166.32
18 Eric Neilson CAN 14 110.46 55.97 166.43
19 Hiroatsu Takahashi JPN 20 111.06 55.87 166.93
20 Maurizio Oioli ITA 21 111.03 55.95 166.98
21 Shinsuke Tayama JPN 23 111.62 56.02 167.64
22 Axel Jungk GER 26 112.25 55.91 168.16
23 Lukas Kummer SUI 25 111.85 56.37 168.22
24 Michael Hoefer SUI 22 112.11 56.11 168.22
25 Ander Mirambell ESP 24 112.06 56.56 168.62
26 Raphael Maier AUT 17 112.52 56.32 168.84
27 Silviu Alexanderu Mesarosi ROU 27 112.86 56.27 169.13
28 Alexandros Kefalas GRE 28 113.15 57.35 170.50
29 Bradley Chalupski ISR 30 114.77 57.18 171.95
30 Urs Vescoli AUS 29 114.97 57.77 172.74
31 Tae-Rae Kim KOR 31 118.09 58.18 176.27