2017 IBSF World Championships – Men’s Skeleton – Runs 1 & 2

February 24, 2017 ken News, Skeleton News 0

From Königssee, GER

There’s absolutely no surprise as to who leads going into the second day of sliding in the men’s skeleton world championships.

Martins Dukurs (Courtesy IBSF TV)

Martins Dukurs was the only athlete to break the 51 second barrier in either of the first two runs, finishing the day .76 ahead of anyone else in the field. The first day of sliding sets Dukurs up for what could be well over a one second win on Sunday.

The Latvian also had the second fastest start in each heat.

Nikita Tregybov came into the second run in second, and held that position despite losing time back to third place’s Axel Jungk. Tregybov was out-started by only Dukurs and teammate Alexander Tretiakov, and had two very clean runs to go along with it.

German Axel Jungk moved up from fifth to third in the second run after putting down the fastest time not run by someone named “Martins Dukurs”. The reigning Olympic champion, Alexander Tretiakov, finished the second run .04 out of a medal, but just .07 ahead of track record holder Alexander Gassner, who finished fifth. Christopher Grotheer helped put all three German sleds in the top six after Day 1 with a sixth place run.

Matt Antoine will go into the third heat in seventh place. The American’s second run left a little on the track, as he came back to Tomass Dukurs behind him, but his first run should be encouragement that he can move up in the second run.

Both of Antoine’s teammates dropped spots in their second run. Nathan Crumpton fell from 13th to 14th after two runs, only .01 ahead of a three-way tie for 15th. Meanwhile, John Daly made his World Championships return, finishing his first day of sliding in 19th place.

For Canada, Dave Greszczyszyn seems to have found some of his form, finishing the second run in tenth despite a few small mistakes in each run. Teammates Barrett Martineau and Kevin Boyer go into Sunday’s third heat in 13th and 22nd, respectively.

Dom Parsons was the top scoring British slider in ninth, while World Championships rookie teammates Jeremy Rice and Jack Thomas finished the first day of sliding in 18th and 21st.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Martins Dukurs LAT 13 4.60 4.58 50.99 50.96 1:41.95
2 Nikita Tregybov RUS 15 4.66 4.64 51.42 51.29 1:42.71
3 Axel Jungk GER 8 4.70 4.66 51.68 51.13 1:42.81
4 Alexander Tretiakov RUS 9 4.57 4.57 51.50 51.35 1:42.85
5 Alexander Gassner GER 10 4.73 4.73 51.45 51.47 1:42.92
6 Christopher Grotheer GER 6 4.73 4.74 51.71 51.63 1:43.34
7 Matthew Antoine USA 7 4.80 4.77 51.77 52.03 1:43.80
8 Tomass Dukurs LAT 14 4.74 4.76 51.98 51.88 1:43.86
9 Dominic Parsons GBR 12 4.85 4.82 52.05 51.83 1:43.88
10 Dave Greszczyszyn CAN 25 4.77 4.78 52.22 52.16 1:44.38
11 Mattia Gaspari ITA 28 4.80 4.82 52.35 52.17 1:44.52
12 Matthias Guggenberger AUT 3 4.78 4.73 52.55 52.14 1:44.69
13 Barrett Martineau CAN 16 4.78 4.76 52.27 52.47 1:44.74
14 Nathan Crumpton USA 11 4.72 4.73 52.29 52.52 1:44.81
15 Rhys Thornbury NZL 17 4.83 4.86 52.59 52.23 1:44.82
15 Pavel Kulikov RUS 23 4.78 4.79 52.44 52.38 1:44.82
15 Ander Mirambell ESP 19 4.87 4.87 52.25 52.57 1:44.82
18 Jeremy Rice GBR 20 4.85 4.80 52.52 52.33 1:44.85
19 John Daly USA 22 4.80 4.78 52.45 52.61 1:45.06
20 Wenqiang Geng CHN 29 4.83 4.79 52.82 52.48 1:45.30
21 Jack Thomas GBR 24 4.79 4.75 52.65 52.76 1:45.41
22 Kevin Boyer CAN 5 4.77 4.75 52.94 52.61 1:45.55
23 Egor Veselov RUS 18 4.83 4.83 52.96 52.65 1:45.61
24 Joseph Luke Cecchini ITA 2 4.83 4.80 52.95 52.71 1:45.66
25 Alex Hanssen NOR 30 4.73 4.78 53.01 52.77 1:45.78
26 Riet Graf SUI 31 4.89 4.90 53.32 52.69 1:46.01
26 Vladyslav Heraskevych UKR 32 5.01 5.01 53.10 52.91 1:46.01
28 Marco Rohrer SUI 21 4.74 4.76 52.86 53.16 1:46.02
29 Rasmus Ottosson SWE 34 5.10 5.17 53.37 52.93 1:46.30
30 Dorin Velicu ROU 1 4.91 4.87 53.00 53.40 1:46.40
31 Alexander Auer AUT 26 4.86 4.89 52.94 53.51 1:46.45
32 Hiroatsu Takahashi JPN 27 4.79 4.81 53.55 53.18 1:46.73
33 Hansin Lee KOR 33 5.08 5.03 53.28 53.75 1:47.03
34 Philipp Mölter CZE 35 5.06 5.07 53.59 53.69 1:47.28
35 AJ Edelman ISR 37 4.96 4.99 54.18 53.88 1:48.06
36 Anthony Watson JAM 42 4.92 4.88 54.55 53.68 1:48.23
37 Dean Timmings AUS 36 4.91 4.89 54.24 54.11 1:48.35
38 Brendan Doyle IRL 39 4.83 4.86 55.43 53.44 1:48.87
39 Chun-Hung Chiang TPE 4 5.03 4.94 54.79 54.38 1:49.17
40 Michal Jakobczyk POL 43 4.75 4.72 54.71 54.85 1:49.56
41 Jeff Bauer LUX 38 5.12 5.14 55.36 55.00 1:50.36
42 Marin Bangiev BUL 41 5.30 5.24 57.10 54.89 1:51.99
43 Denis Lorenčič SLO 44 5.17 5.19 56.25 55.82 1:52.07
44 Akwasi Frimpong GHA 40 4.92 4.83 57.14 55.50 1:52.64