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Men's Skeleton
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Men's Skeleton; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Sliding Centre, Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates	15–16 February 2018
Competitors	30 from 20 nations
Medalists
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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.^[1]

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.^[2] Competitors must compete in five races on three tracks during the 2016/17 season or 2017/18 season.^[3]

Results

The first two runs were held on 15 February and the last two on 16 February 2018.^[4]

TR – Track Record (in italics for previous marks). Top finish in each run is in boldface.

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Rank 1	Run 2	Rank 2	Run 3	Rank 3	Run 4	Rank 4	Total	Behind
	6	Yun Sung-bin	South Korea	50.28 TR	1	50.07 TR	1	50.18	1	50.02 TR	1	3:20.55	–
	10	Nikita Tregubov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	50.59	2	50.50	4	50.53	5	50.56	2	3:22.18	+1.63
	16	Dominic Parsons	Great Britain	50.85	5	50.41	3	50.33	3	50.61	3	3:22.20	+1.65
4	9	Martins Dukurs	Latvia	50.85	5	50.38	2	50.32	2	50.76	5	3:22.31	+1.76
5	8	Tomass Dukurs	Latvia	50.88	7	50.58	5	50.65	6	50.63	4	3:22.74	+2.19
6	23	Kim Ji-soo	South Korea	50.80	4	50.86	6	50.51	4	50.81	6	3:22.98	+2.43
7	7	Axel Jungk	Germany	50.77	3	51.01	9	50.83	8	50.99	10	3:23.60	+3.05
8	11	Christopher Grotheer	Germany	51.05	9	51.06	11	51.01	10	50.93	8	3:24.05	+3.50
9	12	Alexander Gassner	Germany	51.05	9	51.08	12	51.04	11	50.93	8	3:24.10	+3.55
10	21	Jerry Rice	Great Britain	51.06	11	51.15	13	51.04	11	50.99	10	3:24.24	+3.69
11	13	Matthew Antoine	United States	51.16	12	50.98	8	50.91	9	51.34	14	3:24.39	+3.84
12	26	Vladyslav Heraskevych	Ukraine	51.26	14	51.16	15	51.21	17	50.85	7	3:24.47	+3.92
13	24	Geng Wenqiang	China	51.51	19	50.87	7	51.18	15	51.09	12	3:24.65	+4.10
14	20	Rhys Thornbury	New Zealand	50.90	8	51.03	10	50.65	6	52.14	20	3:24.72	+4.17
15	17	Vladislav Marchenkov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	51.27	15	51.49	20	51.05	13	51.37	15	3:25.18	+4.63
16	18	John Daly	United States	51.23	13	51.15	14	51.33	18	51.65	19	3:25.35	+4.80
17	19	Kevin Boyer	Canada	51.46	18	51.24	16	51.14	14	51.56	17	3:25.40	+4.85
18	14	Matthias Guggenberger	Austria	51.38	16	51.29	17	51.81	25	51.25	13	3:25.73	+5.18
19	27	John Farrow	Australia	51.64	21	51.31	18	51.40	20	51.53	16	3:25.88	+5.33
20	3	Alexander Henning Hanssen	Norway	51.44	17	51.51	22	51.37	19	51.57	18	3:25.89	+5.34
21	15	Dave Greszczyszyn	Canada	51.73	23	51.31	18	51.57	21	did not advance		2:34.61	N/A
22	25	Hiroatsu Takahashi	Japan	52.00	27	51.50	21	51.19	16			2:34.69
23	4	Ander Mirambell	Spain	51.64	21	52.06	26	51.59	22			2:35.29
24	22	Barrett Martineau	Canada	51.94	26	51.76	24	51.70	23			2:35.40
25	2	Dorin Dumitru Velicu	Romania	51.91	25	51.51	23	52.02	27			2:35.44
26	28	Katsuyuki Miyajima	Japan	51.63	20	52.15	27	51.80	24			2:35.58
27	29	Joseph Luke Cecchini	Italy	51.88	24	51.80	25	51.96	26			2:35.64
28	30	Adam Edelman	Israel	52.48	28	52.43	28	52.35	28			2:37.26
29	1	Anthony Watson	Jamaica	53.13	29	54.04	29	53.35	29			2:40.52
30	5	Akwasi Frimpong	Ghana	53.97	30	54.46	30	53.69	30			2:42.12