2012 FIBT World Championships – Men’s Skeleton

February 25, 2012 ken News, Skeleton News 0

From Lake Placid, USA

It seemed coming into today’s final set of men’s skeleton heats it seemed that Martins Dukurs would have to crash, twice, to lose the men’s skeleton world championship.  It didn’t come to that, and the Latvian dominated the final heat, winning in convincing fashion.

German Frank Rommel did his best to keep pace, but would have to settle for a silver medal.  Ben Sandford needed a quick run to take bronze, and he had one, beating out Sergei Chudinov.  Matt Antoine and Tomass Dukurs tie for fifth.

John Daly made it two sleds for the United States in the top 10 with an 8th place finish, while the Canadians Fairbairn and Douglas finished 10th and 11th, while Eric Neilson improved his position with the second fastest run of the heat up to 13th.

Pos Name Nation Draw Run 1-3 Run 4 Total
1 Martins Dukurs LAT 3 162.48 54.61 217.09
2 Frank Rommel GER 2 164.04 55.13 219.17
3 Ben Sandford NZL 15 164.27 55.23 219.50
4 Sergei Chudinov RUS 8 164.58 55.07 219.65
5 Matthew Antoine USA 9 164.32 55.43 219.75
5 Tomass Dukurs LAT 4 164.63 55.12 219.75
7 Alexander Gassner GER 7 165.18 55.17 220.35
8 John Daly USA 16 164.79 55.73 220.52
9 Alexander Kroeckel GER 1 165.36 55.18 220.54
10 John Fairbairn CAN 11 165.20 55.51 220.71
11 Michael Douglas CAN 12 165.52 55.41 220.93
12 Alexander Tretiakov RUS 5 165.73 55.62 221.35
13 Eric Neilson CAN 14 166.43 55.03 221.46
14 Kristian Bromley GBR 6 165.61 55.94 221.55
15 Ed Smith GBR 18 165.86 55.69 221.55
16 Anton Batuev RUS 19 166.32 55.25 221.57
17 Adam Pengilly GBR 13 165.77 55.88 221.65
18 Mathias Guggenberger AUT 10 166.30 56.02 222.32
19 Maurizio Oioli ITA 21 166.98 56.03 223.01
20 Hiroatsu Takahashi JPN 20 166.93 56.09 223.02
21 Shinsuke Tayama JPN 23 167.64
22 Axel Jungk GER 26 168.16
23 Lukas Kummer SUI 25 168.22
24 Michael Hoefer SUI 22 168.22
25 Ander Mirambell ESP 24 168.62
26 Raphael Maier AUT 17 168.84
27 Silviu Alexanderu Mesarosi ROU 27 169.13
28 Alexandros Kefalas GRE 28 170.50
29 Bradley Chalupski ISR 30 171.95
30 Urs Vescoli AUS 29 172.74
31 Tae-Rae Kim KOR 31 176.27