2013/2014 FIBT World Cup – St. Moritz – Men’s Skeleton (race 2)

From St. Moritz, Switzerland

Once again, Martins Dukurs made it look easy.  In the second men’s skeleton race, the Latvian beat his brother Tomass by just over a full second to take gold.  Tomass took second easily, while Canadian John Fairbairn took his first ever World Cup medal, a bronze.  Sergei Chudinov took fourth for Russia, while British athlete Kristan Bromley fell from third to fifth, but scored his best finish of the 2013/2014 season.

It was a good weekend in all for the Americans.  Matt Antoine once again led the way for the USA with a sixth place finish.  John Daly rallied back from an awful Friday run with two decent runs to finish ninth.  Teammate Kyle Tress finished fifth on Friday, but could only muster a 16th place finish on his Sunday run.

Aside from Fairbairn’s top five finish, Eric Neilson couldn’t quite crack the top 10, finishing 11th.  Olympic champion Jon Montgomery had a better day than Friday, but finished tied for 17th.

Ed Smith continued to improve for British Skeleton, making the second heat in both races this weekend, finishing 19th on Sunday.  Teammate Dom Parsons will be thrilled to leave St. Moritz, he finished 25th.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Draw Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Martins Dukurs LAT 5 68.14 67.40 2:15.54
2 Tomass Dukurs LAT 8 68.71 67.92 2:16.63
3 John Fairbairn CAN 2 68.99 68.33 2:17.32
4 Sergei Chudinov RUS 6 69.13 68.24 2:17.37
5 Kristan Bromley GBR 15 68.85 68.60 2:17.45
6 Matthew Antoine USA 7 69.05 68.48 2:17.53
7 Aexander Tretyakov RUS 1 69.32 68.30 2:17.62
8 Alexander Kroeckel GER 4 69.18 68.45 2:17.63
9 John Daly USA 13 69.26 68.48 2:17.74
10 Hiroatsu Takahashi JPN 9 69.21 68.54 2:17.75
11 Eric Neilson CAN 11 69.21 68.74 2:17.95
12 John Farrow AUS 26 69.46 68.75 2:18.21
13 Frank Rommel GER 3 69.57 68.81 2:18.38
14 Yuki Sasahara JPN 20 69.68 68.85 2:18.53
15 Lukas Kummer SUI 22 69.43 69.14 2:18.57
16 Kyle Tress USA 12 69.48 69.24 2:18.72
17 Ander Mirambell ESP 27 69.63 69.23 2:18.86
17 Jon Montgomery CAN 18 69.65 69.23 2:18.88
19 Ed Smith GBR 24 69.68 69.42 2:19.10
20 Alexandros Kefalas GRE 21 69.76 69.72 2:19.48
21 Matthias Guggenberger AUT 17 69.86
22 Raphael Maier AUT 16 69.89
23 Christopher Grotheer GER 14 69.97
24 Mattia Gaspari ITA 25 70.00
25 Dominic Parsons GBR 10 70.28
26 Anze Setina SLO 29 70.29
27 Yves Pascal Oswald SUI 28 70.33
28 Ben Sandford NZL 19 70.64
29 Joseph Luke Cecchini ITA 23 70.75