The Men competition at the IBSF World Championships 2020 was held on 27 and 28 February 2020.Schedule
The German skeleton athletes took advantage of their home advantage, and all four German starters placed among the top five. Christopher Grotheer, who did not compete in the World Cup in the 2019/20 season and was only able to compete thanks to Felix Keisinger's Junior World Championship title, was crowned the surprise world champion. Although Axel Jungk had the fastest time in three of four runs, he had to settle for second place. Alexander Gassner secured bronze. For the second time since 1991, all three medalists came from the same country.
Results The first two runs were held on 27 February at 10:00. The last two runs were held on 28 February at 13:04.
Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank Total Behind 19 Christopher Grotheer 56.17 2 55.86 1 56.56 4 56.22 5 3:44.81 9 Axel Jungk 56.15 1 56.23 3 56.41 1 56.04 1 3:44.83 +0.02 8 Alexander Gassner 56.21 3 55.91 2 56.54 3 56.20 4 3:44.86 +0.05 4 4 Martins Dukurs 56.30 4 56.25 4 56.77 6 56.06 2 3:45.38 +0.57 5 6 Felix Keisinger 56.66 7 56.35 7 56.46 2 56.14 3 3:45.61 +0.80 6 7 Yun Sung-bin 56.47 5 56.45 8 56.66 5 56.33 6 3:45.91 +1.10 7 10 Tomass Dukurs 56.75 8 56.34 6 56.88 9 56.66 10 3:46.63 +1.82 8 5 Aleksandr Tretyakov 57.00 12 56.31 5 56.77 6 56.85 12 3:46.93 +2.12 9 13 Nikita Tregubov 56.90 9 56.49 9 57.18 11 56.51 8 3:47.08 +2.27 10 11 Marcus Wyatt 57.03 13 56.91 13 56.84 8 56.37 7 3:47.15 +2.34 11 17 Yan Wengang 56.64 6 57.07 16 57.25 12 56.95 14 3:47.91 +3.10 12 12 Kim Ji-soo 56.93 11 56.76 12 57.51 16 57.07 15 3:48.27 +3.46 13 16 Evgeniy Rukosuev 56.91 10 57.13 19 57.44 14 56.87 13 3:48.35 +3.54 14 18 Vladyslav Heraskevych 57.25 15 57.12 18 57.36 13 56.64 9 3:48.37 +3.56 15 29 Matt Weston 57.26 16 56.66 10 57.72 21 56.82 11 3:48.46 +3.65 16 15 Jung Seung-gi 57.31 17 57.01 14 57.17 10 57.34 18 3:48.83 +4.02 17 25 Florian Auer 57.32 18 56.74 11 57.93 23 57.17 16 3:49.16 +4.35 18 26 Nathan Crumpton 57.93 26 57.05 15 57.46 15 57.17 16 3:49.61 +4.80 19 23 Samuel Maier 57.40 19 57.39 20 57.60 18 57.46 19 3:49.85 +5.04 20 20 Craig Thompson 57.53 20 57.10 17 57.54 17 58.09 20 3:50.26 +5.45 21 14 Geng Wenqiang 57.18 14 57.66 23 57.92 22 22 24 Austin Florian 57.58 22 57.71 26 57.63 19 23 1 Dave Greszczyszyn 57.74 23 57.49 21 57.98 24 24 22 Chen Wenhao 58.45 28 57.66 23 57.66 20 25 2 Kevin Boyer 57.79 25 57.69 25 58.40 26 26 27 Mattia Gaspari 57.78 24 57.90 27 58.31 25 27 30 Andrew Blaser 57.54 21 57.58 22 58.94 30 28 3 Mihail Sebastian Enache 58.56 29 57.94 28 58.55 28 29 31 Basil Sieber 59.11 31 58.42 30 58.66 29 30 28 Samuel Keiser 58.59 30 58.63 31 59.12 31 31 21 Amedeo Bagnis 32 58.25 29 58.46 27 32 Ander Mirambell 58.25 27
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