Aleksandr Vladimirovich Tretyakov (; born 19 April 1985) is a Russian skeleton rider. Tretyakov is Olympic champion (2014), World champion (2013), European champion (2007) as well as two-times winner of the Skeleton World Cup, which he won in 2008–09 and 2018–19.
Career Tretyakov is the first Russian who won the World Championships (2013 in St. Moritz), the overall Skeleton World Cup (2008–09) and an Olympics bronze medal (at the 2010 Winter Olympics). He is the silver medalist of the 2011 World Championships in Königssee and 2015 World Championships in Winterberg, as well as of bronze medalist of the 2009 World Championships in Lake Placid (men's skeleton event) and 2015 World Championships in Winterberg (mixed team). In 2013 in St. Moritz, he became the world champion.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Tretyakov won three out of four runs, established track (55.95) and start (4.47) records, and became the champion ahead of Martins Dukurs, who was universally considered to be the strongest gold medal contender. This was the first gold medal in skeleton for Russia. To sleep well before the second day of the competitions, Tretyakov downloaded on his cell phone the series of Russian Wikipedia articles on the economy of the Tsardom of Russia and fell asleep while reading them.
Tretyakov resides in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. His wife Anastasia is a former skeleton rider. Their daughter was born in 2013.
Controversy Tretyakov's bottles of urine had scratch marks so he was provisionally suspended in 2016. On 22 November 2017, he was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics and had his gold medal stripped from him. On 1 February 2018, the ban was overturned and his results were restored as a result of the successful appeal.
World Cup results All results are sourced from the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF).
Season123456789PointsPlace2004–05 WIN32 ALT37 IGL19 SIG33 CES39 STM39 LKP26 23 34th2005–06 CAL9 LKP29 IGL28 SIG10 KON38 STM32 ALT— 92 24th2006–07 CAL2 PKC3 LKP15 NAG— IGL1 CES— WIN1 KON2 487 3rd2007–08 CAL10 PKC7 LKP19 CES115 CES212 STM22 KON13 WIN— 794 16th2008–09 WIN2 ALT9 IGL2 KON3 STM9 WHI9 PKC11 PKC21 1526 1st2009–10 PKC11 LKP7 CES15 WIN3 ALT2 KON12 STM9 IGL3 1298 8th2010–11 WHI3 CAL2 PKC1 LKP13 IGL3 WIN3 STM23 CES10 1349 5th2011–12 IGL2 LPL3 WIN3 ALT6 KON5 STM22 WHI2 CAL2 1446 4th2012–13 LKP3 PKC3 WHI4 WIN2 LPL2 ALT— KON3 IGL2 SOC2 1632 4th2013–14 CAL2 PKC1 LKP2 WIN3 STM14 STM27 IGL2 KON— 1415 4th2014–15 LKP— CAL— ALT3 KON1 STM10 LAP2 IGL2 SOC1 1214 7th2015–16 ALT2 WIN2 KON12 LKP— PKC— WHI— STM5 KON2— 814 12th2016–17 WHI2 LKP1 ALT— WIN3 STM4 KON1 IGL2 PYE4 1454 3rd2017–18 LKP3 PKC6 WHI— WIN4 IGL34 ALT2 STM4 KON7 1138 9th2018–19 SIG4 WIN1 ALT1 KON IGL4 STM2 LKP1 CAL11 CAL22 1719 1st2019–20 LKP13 LKP21 WIN7 LPL1 IGL3 KON1 STM6 SIG5 1603 2nd2020–21 SIG 19 SIG 210 IGL 11 IGL 2— WIN1 STM— KON3 IGL 31 1171 5th2021–22 IGL 11 IGL 29 ALT 19 WIN1 ALT 24 SIG— WIN 23 STM8 1306 7th
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