The men's skeleton event at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 15 and 16 February at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea.
In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Ryu Seung-min, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Ivo Ferriani, International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation president and member of the International Olympic Committee.
Qualification
30 athletes qualified. Qualification is based on the combined rankings (across all four tours) as of 14 January 2018. The top three countries received three quotas each, the next six received two each and the last nine one each. Men had to be ranked in the top 60, after eliminating non-quota-earning competitors from countries that have earned their maximum quota. Ghana was awarded the continental quota for Africa. Competitors must compete in five races on three tracks during the 2016/17 season or 2017/18 season.
Results The first two runs were held on 15 February and the last two on 16 February 2018.
TR – Track Record (in italics for previous marks). Top finish in each run is in boldface.
RankBibAthlete CountryRun 1Rank 1Run 2Rank 2Run 3Rank 3Run 4Rank 4TotalBehind 6 Yun Sung-bin 50.28 TR 1 50.07 TR 1 50.18 1 50.02 TR 1 3:20.55 10 Nikita Tregubov 50.59 2 50.50 4 50.53 5 50.56 2 3:22.18 +1.63 16 Dominic Parsons 50.85 5 50.41 3 50.33 3 50.61 3 3:22.20 +1.65 9 Martins Dukurs 50.85 5 50.38 2 50.32 2 50.76 5 3:22.31 +1.76 8 Tomass Dukurs 50.88 7 50.58 5 50.65 6 50.63 4 3:22.74 +2.19 23 Kim Ji-soo 50.80 4 50.86 6 50.51 4 50.81 6 3:22.98 +2.43 7 Axel Jungk 50.77 3 51.01 9 50.83 8 50.99 10 3:23.60 +3.05 11 Christopher Grotheer 51.05 9 51.06 11 51.01 10 50.93 8 3:24.05 +3.50 12 Alexander Gassner 51.05 9 51.08 12 51.04 11 50.93 8 3:24.10 +3.55 10 21 Jerry Rice 51.06 11 51.15 13 51.04 11 50.99 10 3:24.24 +3.69 11 13 Matthew Antoine 51.16 12 50.98 8 50.91 9 51.34 14 3:24.39 +3.84 12 26 Vladyslav Heraskevych 51.26 14 51.16 15 51.21 17 50.85 7 3:24.47 +3.92 13 24 Geng Wenqiang 51.51 19 50.87 7 51.18 15 51.09 12 3:24.65 +4.10 14 20 Rhys Thornbury 50.90 8 51.03 10 50.65 6 52.14 20 3:24.72 +4.17 15 17 Vladislav Marchenkov 51.27 15 51.49 20 51.05 13 51.37 15 3:25.18 +4.63 16 18 John Daly 51.23 13 51.15 14 51.33 18 51.65 19 3:25.35 +4.80 17 19 Kevin Boyer 51.46 18 51.24 16 51.14 14 51.56 17 3:25.40 +4.85 18 14 Matthias Guggenberger 51.38 16 51.29 17 51.81 25 51.25 13 3:25.73 +5.18 19 27 John Farrow 51.64 21 51.31 18 51.40 20 51.53 16 3:25.88 +5.33 20 3 51.44 17 51.51 22 51.37 19 51.57 18 3:25.89 +5.34 21 15 Dave Greszczyszyn 51.73 23 51.31 18 51.57 21 did not advance 2:34.61 N/A 22 25 Hiroatsu Takahashi 52.00 27 51.50 21 51.19 16 2:34.69 23 4 Ander Mirambell 51.64 21 52.06 26 51.59 22 2:35.29 24 22 Barrett Martineau 51.94 26 51.76 24 51.70 23 2:35.40 25 2 Dorin Dumitru Velicu 51.91 25 51.51 23 52.02 27 2:35.44 26 28 Katsuyuki Miyajima 51.63 20 52.15 27 51.80 24 2:35.58 27 29 Joseph Luke Cecchini 51.88 24 51.80 25 51.96 26 2:35.64 28 30 Adam Edelman 52.48 28 52.43 28 52.35 28 2:37.26 29 1 Anthony Watson 53.13 29 54.04 29 53.35 29 2:40.52 30 5 Akwasi Frimpong 53.97 30 54.46 30 53.69 30 2:42.12 TR – Track Record
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