The men's skeleton event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, took place at the Whistler Sliding Centre on 18–19 February.2010 Winter Olympics Skeleton schedule. - accessed 8 November 2009. Canada's Duff Gibson was the defending Olympic champion.2006 Winter Olympics men's skeleton results. - accessed 8 November 2009. Gibson retired after the 2006 Olympics. Switzerland's Gregor Stähli, the defending Olympic bronze medalist was the defending world champion,FIBT World Championships 2009 men's skeleton results. - accessed 8 November 2009. but did not compete due to a thigh injury sustained during the World Cup event in Lake Placid, New York, on 20 November 2009."Staehli to miss Vancouver Games". - 15 January 2010 UniversalSports.com article accessed 28 January 2010. The test event held at the venue was won by Jon Montgomery of Canada.Whistler Sliding Centre World Cup 5 February 2009 men's skeleton results. - accessed 8 November 2009. The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games took place in Igls, Austria (southeast of Innsbruck), on 23 January 2010 and was won by Latvia's Martins DukursFIBT Skeleton World Cup Igls 23 January 2010 men's results. - accessed 23 January 2010. who also won the overall World Cup title.FIBT Skeleton World Cup final men's rankings. - accessed 23 January 2010.

Canada's Jon Montgomery took the gold medal, 0.07 seconds ahead of Latvia's Martins Dukurs who had been leading heading into the final run. Bronze was won by Aleksandr Tretyakov of Russia.

Records While the IOC does not consider skeleton times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.

These records were set during the test event for the 2010 Games on 5 February 2009.

Type Date Athlete Time Start 5 February 2009 4.52 Track 5 February 2009 53.67

Qualifying athletes On 20 January 2010, the FIBT announced that the following teams had qualified for the 2010 Games: (20 January 2010 article accessed 21 January 2010.)FIBT skeleton men quotas for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - 20 January 2010 article accessed 21 January 2010. These quotas were updated on 26 January 2010. (26 January 2010 article accessed 27 January 2010.)26 January 2010 FIBT Nations who have qualified for men's skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 27 January 2010.

These are the athletes who qualified for the men's event as of 1 February 2010.Vancouver2010.com skeleton athletes. - accessed 1 February 2010.

Results The first two runs took place on 18 February at 18:30 PST and 19:45 PST. On 19 February, the final two runs took place at 18:20 PST and 19:30 PST.

First run start order was released on the afternoon of 17 February 2010.2010 Winter Olympics 17 February 2010 Skeleton men's start. - accessed 18 February 2010.

TR - Track Record. Top finish in each run is in boldface.

Douglas, who was in seventh place after the second run, was disqualified for not getting his sled into parque fermé, the area where the skeleton sleds are inspected before they go down the Sliding Centre, in a timely manner."Canada's Douglas disqualified in men's skeleton." - 19 February 2010 CBC.ca article written by Mihira Lakshman accessed 20 February 2010. Roberts withdrew prior to the start of the third run. Only the top 20 skeleton racers competed in the fourth and final run. Montgomery came from behind to edge Dukurs in the fourth run."Canada's Montgomery pips Latvian for skeleton gold." - 19 February 2010 Vancouver2010.com article accessed 20 February 2010.

RankBibAthlete CountryRun 12010 Winter Olympics 18 February 2010 Skeleton men run 1 results. - accessed 19 February 2010.Run 22010 Winter Olympics 18 February 2010 Skeleton men run 2 results. - accessed 19 February 2010.Run 32010 Winter Olympics 19 February 2010 Skeleton men run 3 results. - accessed 20 February 2010.Run 42010 Winter Olympics 19 February 2010 Skeleton men run 4 results. - accessed 20 February 2010.TotalBehind 5 Jon Montgomery 52.60 52.57 52.20 TR 52.36 3:29.73 +0.00 1 Martins Dukurs 52.32 TR 52.59 52.28 52.61 3:29.80 +0.07 8 Aleksandr Tretyakov 52.70 53.05 52.30 52.70 3:30.75 +1.02 4 Tomass Dukurs 52.94 52.88 52.62 52.69 3:31.13 +1.40 12 Zach Lund 53.04 52.85 52.57 52.81 3:31.27 +1.54 6 Kristan Bromley 52.91 52.89 52.70 52.80 3:31.30 +1.57 2 Frank Rommel 52.90 53.25 52.55 52.70 3:31.40 +1.67 15 Matthias Guggenberger 52.75 53.02 53.03 53.01 3:31.81 +2.08 10 Jeff Pain 53.03 53.18 53.00 52.65 3:31.86 +2.13 10 3 Sandro Stielicke 53.18 53.24 52.64 53.02 3:32.08 +2.35 11 14 Ben Sandford 53.11 53.32 52.90 53.26 3:32.59 +2.86 12 17 Sergey Chudinov 53.64 53.26 53.13 52.92 3:32.95 +3.22 13 7 Mirsad Halilović 53.09 53.87 52.92 53.24 3:33.12 +3.39 14 9 Eric Bernotas 53.23 53.55 53.33 53.16 3:33.27 +3.54 15 21 Gregory Saint-Genies 53.40 53.16 53.32 53.43 3:33.31 +3.58 16 18 Pascal Oswald 53.77 53.68 53.00 53.30 3:33.75 +4.02 17 13 John Daly 54.08 53.65 53.23 53.05 3:34.01 +4.28 18 16 Adam Pengilly 53.75 54.17 53.36 53.23 3:34.51 +4.78 19 23 Shinsuke Tayama 53.94 53.84 54.03 53.36 3:35.17 +5.44 20 20 Kazuhiro Koshi 54.02 54.10 53.74 53.42 3:35.28 +5.55 21 19 Anže Šetina 54.50 54.35 53.75 22 27 Cho In Ho 54.46 54.42 54.28 23 22 Anthony Deane 54.55 54.12 54.68 24 25 Ander Mirambell 54.77 54.59 54.26 25 26 Patrick Shannon 55.18 55.20 54.60 26 28 Nicola Drocco 55.77 54.60 54.97 24 Iain Roberts 55.21 57.58 11 Michael Douglas 52.83 53.04

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