From Lake Placid, USA
(January 11, 2026) – Until the first week of January 2026, Dan Barefoot had never won an international gold medal at any level in his long sliding career.
He’s now won three straight.
Barefoot beat out South Korea’s Chanhyuk Yeo for the second straight time, this time holding him off by a combined .17 for gold.
Barefoot out-slid Yeo by .09 after the first heat, with Canada’s Josip sitting third, only .08 behind Yeo, making for a tight second heat.
France’s Lucas Defayet threw together a strong second run to take the lead from Belgium’s Colin Freeling, then held it as Josip Brusic was unable to match his first heat effort to slide into the medals.
Yeo was next, and put down a very clean run that nearly matched his first effort to take a .61 second lead with only Barefoot still to go.
But Barefoot put down another strong run, a tenth slower than his first effort but quicker than anyone else in the heat on his way to victory over Yeo, with Defayet third.
Barefoot’s win was his third straight. For Yeo, the silver medal was his third medal in four races, while Defayet’s bronze gave him seven medals in seven races.
Brusic finished fourth, Freeling fifth, and Canada’s Ryan Kuehn sixth.
With one race to go in the North American Cup season, Lucas Defayet clinched the 2025/2026 North American Cup title with a sizable lead over Josip Brusic, who sits second. Chanhyuk Yeo is third, 14 points behind Brusic, with Jared Firestone and Nick Timmings fourth and fifth.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Finish |
| 1 | Daniel Barefoot | USA | 9 | 4.95 | 4.93 | 54.09 | 54.19 | 1:48.28 |
| 2 | Chanhyuk Yeo | KOR | 5 | 4.87 | 4.85 | 54.18 | 54.27 | 1:48.45 |
| 3 | Lucas Defayet | FRA | 8 | 5.01 | 4.99 | 54.39 | 54.77 | 1:49.16 |
| 4 | Josip Brusic | CAN | 1 | 4.95 | 4.89 | 54.26 | 54.97 | 1:49.23 |
| 5 | Colin Freeling | BEL | 21 | 5.18 | 5.17 | 54.68 | 54.99 | 1:49.67 |
| 6 | Ryan Kuehn | CAN | 6 | 4.88 | 4.89 | 54.96 | 54.81 | 1:49.77 |
| 7 | Nicholas Timmings | AUS | 2 | 5.11 | 5.07 | 54.87 | 54.94 | 1:49.81 |
| 8 | Eduardo Strapasson | BRA | 13 | 5.13 | 5.14 | 54.80 | 55.17 | 1:49.97 |
| 9 | Hiroatsu Takahashi | JPN | 3 | 5.01 | 4.94 | 54.97 | 55.16 | 1:50.13 |
| 9 | Jonathan Yaw | MAS | 10 | 5.08 | 5.04 | 55.02 | 55.11 | 1:50.13 |
| 11 | Adrian Rodriguez | ESP | 11 | 4.99 | 4.94 | 54.98 | 55.20 | 1:50.18 |
| 12 | Lin-wei Peng | TPE | 18 | 5.11 | 5.02 | 54.97 | 55.32 | 1:50.29 |
| 13 | Jared Firestone | ISR | 4 | 5.08 | 5.03 | 55.09 | 55.25 | 1:50.34 |
| 14 | Sébastien Régnier | CAN | 16 | 4.88 | 4.86 | 55.09 | 55.28 | 1:50.37 |
| 15 | Joeri Van kuppeveld | NED | 17 | 4.97 | 4.94 | 55.46 | 55.00 | 1:50.46 |
| 16 | Taido Nagao | JPN | 19 | 5.02 | 5.01 | 55.23 | 55.48 | 1:50.71 |
| 17 | Hunter Williams | USA | 20 | 5.10 | 5.06 | 55.78 | 55.26 | 1:51.04 |
| 18 | Yeonsu Shin | KOR | 7 | 5.13 | 5.15 | 55.03 | 56.05 | 1:51.08 |
| 19 | Zander Greco | CAN | 12 | 4.99 | 4.98 | 55.70 | 55.50 | 1:51.20 |
| 20 | Youngmin Song | KOR | 15 | 4.89 | 4.93 | 55.91 | 55.41 | 1:51.32 |
| 21 | Peter Makrides | AUS | 14 | 5.09 | 5.14 | 56.02 | 56.01 | 1:52.03 |
| 22 | Massimo Ardizzoni | CAN | 22 | 4.97 | 4.92 | 55.95 | 56.10 | 1:52.05 |
| 23 | Tyler Madl | USA | 26 | 5.18 | 5.21 | 56.07 | 56.43 | 1:52.50 |
| 24 | Sam Allred | USA | 25 | 5.04 | 5.10 | 55.82 | 56.81 | 1:52.63 |
| 25 | Kevin heng Lee | TPE | 28 | 5.09 | 5.06 | 56.35 | 56.42 | 1:52.77 |
| 26 | Jeff Bauer | LUX | 23 | 5.50 | 56.91 | |||
| 27 | Tyler Lutz | USA | 30 | 4.90 | 57.14 | |||
| 28 | Tony Furnells | USA | 31 | 5.09 | 57.16 | |||
| 29 | Oren Milstein | ISR | 29 | 5.28 | 58.10 | |||
| 30 | Dion Charles | CAN | 24 | 5.51 | 59.08 | |||
| DNS | Akwasi Frimpong | GHA | 27 | DNS |