From Sigulda, LAT
(December 19, 2025) – Matt Weston remained perfect on the 2025/2026 World Cup season with a win in Sigulda. Behind him was chaos on the leaderboard, with teammate Marcus Wyatt eventually settling in behind him as part of a British one-two finish.
Weston was tenth off in the first heat, and his first run was outstanding and by the end of the heat the World Cup leader found himself a yawning .65 ahead of China’s Yin Zheng in second place, just ahead of South Korea’s Seunggi Jung.
But like in the women’s race the day before, the results of the first heat were in no way final, and chaos reigned supreme in the second heat.
Italy’s Mattia Gaspari had entered the second heat in 16th place, but his second run was enough to not just take the lead but then hold it for a few sleds but was picked off by Vladyslav Heraskevych. However Gaspari’s slide was good enough to keep him moving up the leaderboard to what would eventually be ninth place.
Meanwhile Heraskevych continued a march to the front in the leader’s box, eventually unseated by Germany’s Felix Keisinger from ninth place. But like Gaspari, Heraskevych would continue to move up behind Keisinger, eventually finishing fifth.
Wyatt had entered the second heat in sixth place, but put down a second run that was .25 quicker than his first. That slide was not just enough to move into the leader’s box, but enough to keep him there as Emils Indriksons, Haifeng Zhu, Jung, and Yin all failed to match his two-run downtime and leaving Weston the only man between himself and gold.
Weston’s lead was just far too big. He had entered his second run .9 ahead of Wyatt, and while he was outstarted by his teammate, Weston just had to get down somewhat clean to win. His second slide was third quickest, but still enough to keep him ahead of Wyatt and win gold by a massive .82 second margin of victory, with Wyatt second and Keisinger third.
Weston’s gold was his third straight to start the season, while Wyatt’s silver was his first medal this season and 13th medal of his career.
For Keisinger, bronze was the German’s first top six of the year and first medal in two years.
Yin finished fourth, Heraskevych fifth, and Bagnis sixth, the latter two both moving in to the top six from outside of the top ten in the first heat.
Austin Florian led the way for the United States in 14th place, tied with Rasmus Johansen, while Dan Barefoot was 23rd. Nick Tucker finished 32nd.
Jacob Salisbury missed a second run by just .05 and finished 26th.
Three races into the World Cup men’s skeleton season, Matt Weston leads Zheng Yin and Samuel Maier in second and third. Axel Jungk, Seunggi Jung, and Marcus Wyatt rond out the top six.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Matt Weston | GBR | 10 | 4.56 | 4.60 | 49.81 | 50.54 | 1:40.35 |
| 2 | Marcus Wyatt | GBR | 2 | 4.58 | 4.57 | 50.71 | 50.46 | 1:41.17 |
| 3 | Felix Keisinger | GER | 17 | 4.59 | 4.56 | 50.82 | 50.38 | 1:41.20 |
| 4 | Yin Zheng | CHN | 7 | 4.64 | 4.61 | 50.46 | 50.80 | 1:41.26 |
| 5 | Vladyslav Heraskevych | UKR | 16 | 4.80 | 4.77 | 51.02 | 50.56 | 1:41.58 |
| 6 | Amedeo Bagnis | ITA | 11 | 4.66 | 4.61 | 50.93 | 50.68 | 1:41.61 |
| 7 | Axel Jungk | GER | 8 | 4.66 | 4.62 | 51.00 | 50.63 | 1:41.63 |
| 8 | Samuel Maier | AUT | 6 | 4.80 | 4.80 | 50.72 | 51.03 | 1:41.75 |
| 9 | Seunggi Jung | KOR | 9 | 4.64 | 4.68 | 50.49 | 51.28 | 1:41.77 |
| 9 | Qinwei Lin | CHN | 5 | 4.58 | 4.60 | 50.95 | 50.82 | 1:41.77 |
| 9 | Mattia Gaspari | ITA | 18 | 4.82 | 4.81 | 51.12 | 50.65 | 1:41.77 |
| 12 | Emils Indriksons | LAT | 13 | 4.65 | 4.70 | 50.61 | 51.18 | 1:41.79 |
| 13 | Wenhao Chen | CHN | 4 | 4.61 | 4.59 | 50.72 | 51.22 | 1:41.94 |
| 14 | Rasmus Johansen | DEN | 3 | 4.68 | 4.68 | 50.91 | 51.06 | 1:41.97 |
| 14 | Austin Florian | USA | 15 | 4.56 | 4.52 | 51.10 | 50.87 | 1:41.97 |
| 16 | Christopher Grotheer | GER | 29 | 4.74 | 4.72 | 51.56 | 50.61 | 1:42.17 |
| 17 | Haifeng Zhu | CHN | 1 | 4.63 | 4.65 | 50.60 | 51.61 | 1:42.21 |
| 18 | Jisoo Kim | KOR | 12 | 4.58 | 4.68 | 51.24 | 51.10 | 1:42.34 |
| 19 | Alexander Schlintner | AUT | 23 | 4.70 | 4.72 | 51.74 | 50.66 | 1:42.40 |
| 20 | Lukas Nydegger | GER | 19 | 4.97 | 4.90 | 51.62 | 51.00 | 1:42.62 |
| 21 | Florian Auer | AUT | 32 | 4.93 | 4.88 | 51.96 | 50.82 | 1:42.78 |
| 22 | Lucas Defayet | FRA | 14 | 4.88 | 4.84 | 51.52 | 51.29 | 1:42.81 |
| 23 | Daniel Barefoot | USA | 27 | 4.77 | 4.74 | 52.10 | 51.17 | 1:43.27 |
| 24 | Vinzenz Buff | SUI | 21 | 4.88 | 4.90 | 52.07 | 51.32 | 1:43.39 |
| 25 | Yaroslav Lavreniuk | UKR | 24 | 4.83 | 4.87 | 52.12 | 51.57 | 1:43.69 |
| 26 | Jacob Salisbury | GBR | 20 | 4.59 | 52.17 | |||
| 27 | Valentino Buff | SUI | 26 | 5.14 | 52.34 | |||
| 28 | Joeri van Kuppeveld | NED | 28 | 4.66 | 52.39 | |||
| 29 | Dāvis Valdovskis | LAT | 30 | 4.90 | 52.68 | |||
| 30 | Giovanni Marchetti | ITA | 31 | 4.72 | 52.76 | |||
| 31 | Timon Drahonovsky | CZE | 25 | 5.06 | 52.79 | |||
| 32 | Nicholas Tucker | USA | 22 | 4.76 | 54.90 |