From Sigulda, LAT
(December 13, 2021) – Like his women’s skeleton teammate Polina Tiurina earlier in the day, Russia’s Dmitrii Grevtsev won his first career European Cup gold medal in Latvia, beating out Latvia’s Krists Netlaus for top honors.
Grevtsev opened up a .17 second advantage over Netlaus in the first heat. On the second run Grevtsev added another .32 seconds to that time to give him a .49 second victory over the Latvian slider in Sigulda.
Netlaus was over .3 quicker over two heats than Germany’s Stefan Röttig. Röttig had the quick start in both heats on his way to his bronze medal.
Ludwig Mannhard finished fourth for Germany, while teammate Cedric Renner helped put three Germans in thet op five with his fifth place effort. Dmitry Knysh rounded out the top six.
Hunter Williams scored his first career European Cup top ten with a tenth place finish. He found himself sandwiched between two British sliders, with Jacob Salisbury in ninth and Ronnie Wells in 11th. Patrick Atkin rounded out the British effort in 23rd.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Finish |
| 1 | Dmitrii Grevtsev | RUS | 8 | 4.73 | 4.71 | 51.17 | 51.37 | 1:42.54 |
| 2 | Krists Netlaus | LAT | 4 | 4.73 | 4.70 | 51.34 | 51.69 | 1:43.03 |
| 3 | Stefan Röttig | GER | 9 | 4.59 | 4.58 | 51.63 | 51.71 | 1:43.34 |
| 4 | Ludwig Mannhardt | GER | 12 | 4.86 | 4.90 | 51.83 | 51.91 | 1:43.74 |
| 5 | Cedric Renner | GER | 6 | 4.82 | 4.81 | 51.53 | 52.22 | 1:43.75 |
| 6 | Dmitry Knysh | RUS | 3 | 5.09 | 5.05 | 51.86 | 51.95 | 1:43.81 |
| 7 | Danil Cherkasov | RUS | 14 | 4.97 | 4.98 | 51.95 | 51.97 | 1:43.92 |
| 8 | Bogdan Popov | RUS | 13 | 4.72 | 4.70 | 51.95 | 51.99 | 1:43.94 |
| 9 | Jacob Salisbury | GBR | 10 | 4.72 | 4.72 | 51.76 | 52.28 | 1:44.04 |
| 10 | Hunter Williams | USA | 19 | 4.92 | 4.88 | 52.24 | 51.91 | 1:44.15 |
| 11 | Ronnie Wells | GBR | 20 | 4.63 | 4.61 | 52.91 | 52.24 | 1:45.15 |
| 12 | Pietro Drovanti | ITA | 2 | 4.77 | 4.73 | 52.19 | 53.06 | 1:45.25 |
| 13 | Vladyslav Polvach | POL | 21 | 5.01 | 4.98 | 52.54 | 52.77 | 1:45.31 |
| 14 | Valts Smilga | LAT | 1 | 4.94 | 5.01 | 52.41 | 52.97 | 1:45.38 |
| 15 | Takanobu Usui | JPN | 23 | 4.99 | 4.89 | 52.61 | 52.97 | 1:45.58 |
| 16 | Daniel Filpszki | GER | 7 | 4.92 | 4.98 | 52.67 | 53.17 | 1:45.84 |
| 17 | Sandro Mai | AUT | 15 | 4.99 | 4.94 | 52.91 | 52.96 | 1:45.87 |
| 18 | Colin Freeling | BEL | 17 | 5.16 | 4.98 | 52.63 | 53.32 | 1:45.95 |
| 19 | Gabriele Marenchino | ITA | 24 | 4.72 | 4.71 | 53.45 | 53.19 | 1:46.64 |
| 20 | Giovanni Marchetti | ITA | 11 | 4.88 | 4.92 | 52.72 | 53.93 | 1:46.65 |
| 21 | Marvin Moscara | ITA | 18 | 4.84 | 53.47 | |||
| 22 | Timon Drahonovsky | CZE | 22 | 5.10 | 54.35 | |||
| 23 | Patrick Atkin | GBR | 16 | 4.70 | 54.84 | |||
| 24 | Hubert Licman | SLO | 25 | 6.02 | 57.38 | |||
| 25 | Elvis Veinbergs | LAT | 5 | 4.90 | 58.30 |
