List of Olympic medalists in skeleton

Main article: Skeleton at the Winter Olympics

American Jimmy Shea won the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics men's skeleton event, becoming the first Olympic skeleton champion since Nino Bibbia in the 1948 Games. In 2006, Duff Gibson became the first Olympic skeleton champion from Canada and the oldest individual Winter Olympic gold medalist.

Skeleton is one of the Olympic sport disciplines contested at the Winter Olympic Games.[1] It was introduced at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz – the birthplace of skeleton[2] – in the form of a men's event contested over four runs.[3] Dropped from the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics program, skeleton returned in 1948, when St. Moritz hosted again the Winter Olympics, but was discarded from the following Games in Oslo. After 54 years of absence from the Olympic program, skeleton was reinstated as an official medal sport at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, featuring individual events for men and women.[2]

In 1928, the first Olympic skeleton event was won by American sledder Jennison Heaton, who also won a silver medal in the bobsleigh's five-man event. His younger brother, John Heaton, was runner-up, spending an additional second to complete all three runs (the fourth was cancelled).[3] He repeated this result 20 years later, placing behind Nino Bibbia of Italy, who won his country's first Winter Olympic gold medal.[4]

In 2002, American sledder Jimmy Shea – grandson of Jack Shea, two-time Olympic speed skating champion at the 1932 Lake Placid Games[5] – secured the gold medal by 0.05 seconds, becoming the first Olympic skeleton champion in 54 years. On the same day, another American, Tristan Gale, won the first-ever women's event in the discipline. In the 2006 Winter Olympics men's event, 39-year-old Canadian Duff Gibson beat countryman and world champion Jeff Pain to become the oldest individual gold medalist at the Winter Games.[6] Switzerland's Gregor Stähli won the bronze medal for the second time, beating the third Canadian sledder, Paul Boehm, by 0.26 seconds and thus preventing a medal sweep for Canada.[7] Four years later, Jon Montgomery secured a back-to-back victory for Canada in the men's event, while Amy Williams's win in the women's event gave Great Britain its only medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, as well as its first individual gold medalist since 1980, and first individual female gold medalist since 1952.[8] This victory was emulated four years later in Sochi by another British athlete, Lizzy Yarnold, who secured her country's second consecutive Olympic skeleton gold medal.[9] The following day, Aleksandr Tretyakov – who had won Russia's first Olympic skeleton medal in Vancouver – beat the 2010 Olympic silver medalist Martins Dukurs of Latvia in the men's event to secure his first Olympic title.[10]

Having won two medals in an equal number of contests, Lizzy Yarnold, John Heaton, Gregor Stähli, Martins Dukurs and Aleksandr Tretyakov are the joint medal leaders in Olympic skeleton. Yarnold stands above them for winning gold at different games, the only person to defend an Olympic skeleton title.[11] As of 2018, Great Britain are the most successful National Olympic Committee (NOC) in Olympic skeleton ranked by number of medals, having won nine medals (three golds, one silver and five bronze) and was the only NOC to have collected a medal every Games that skeleton has featured at the Winter Olympics until 2022; they have featured particularly strongly in the women's event, with three of the five gold medalists and six of the fifteen total medalists. The United States comes next with eight medals (three golds, four silver and one bronze). By the alternative measure of number of golds, then silvers, then bronzes, the US is the most successful, with Great Britain in second place.

## Men

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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1928 St. Moritz
details | Jennison Heaton
United States | John Heaton
United States | David Carnegie
Great Britain
1932–1936 | not included in the Olympic program
1948 St. Moritz
details | Nino Bibbia
Italy | John Heaton
United States | John Crammond
Great Britain
1952–1998 | not included in the Olympic program
2002 Salt Lake City
details | Jimmy Shea
United States | Martin Rettl
Austria | Gregor Stähli
Switzerland
2006 Turin
details | Duff Gibson
Canada | Jeff Pain
Canada | Gregor Stähli
Switzerland
2010 Vancouver
details | Jon Montgomery
Canada | Martins Dukurs
Latvia | Aleksandr Tretyakov
Russia
2014 Sochi
details | Aleksandr Tretyakov
Russia | Martins Dukurs
Latvia | Matthew Antoine
United States
2018 Pyeongchang
details | Yun Sung-bin
South Korea | Nikita Tregubov
Olympic Athletes from Russia | Dominic Parsons
Great Britain
2022 Beijing
details | Christopher Grotheer
Germany | Axel Jungk
Germany | Yan Wengang
China
Medals

Rank  | Nation  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total
1 |  United States | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5
2 |  Canada | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3
3 |  Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2
4 |  Russia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2
5 |  Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1
South Korea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1
7 |  Latvia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2
8 |  Austria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1
Olympic Athletes from Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1
10 |  Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3
11 |  Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2
12 |  China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
Total | 12 nations | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24

## Women

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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2002 Salt Lake City
details | Tristan Gale
United States | Lea Ann Parsley
United States | Alex Coomber
Great Britain
2006 Turin
details | Maya Pedersen
Switzerland | Shelley Rudman
Great Britain | Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards
Canada
2010 Vancouver
details | Amy Williams
Great Britain | Kerstin Szymkowiak
Germany | Anja Huber
Germany
2014 Sochi
details | Lizzy Yarnold
Great Britain | Noelle Pikus-Pace
United States | Elena Nikitina
Russia
2018 Pyeongchang
details | Lizzy Yarnold
Great Britain | Jacqueline Lölling
Germany | Laura Deas
Great Britain
2022 Beijing
details | Hannah Neise
Germany | Jaclyn Narracott
Australia | Kimberley Bos
Netherlands
Medals

Rank  | Nation  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total
1 |  Great Britain | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6
2 |  Germany | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4
3 |  United States | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3
4 |  Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1
5 |  Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1
6 |  Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
Total | 8 nations | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18

## Statistics

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### Multiple medalists

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Amy Williams was the first British athlete since 1980 to win an individual event at the Winter Olympics, and the first British female athlete to do so since 1952. Athlete  | NOC  | Olympics  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total

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Lizzy Yarnold |  Great Britain | 2014–2018  | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2
Aleksandr Tretyakov |  Russia | 2010–2014  | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2
John Heaton |  United States | 1928, 1948  | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2
Martins Dukurs |  Latvia | 2010–2014  | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2
Gregor Stähli |  Switzerland | 2002–2006  | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2

### Medals per year

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Jon Montgomery (center) celebrates a Canadian back-to-back Olympic title. Martins Dukurs of Latvia (left) and Aleksandr Tretyakov of Russia (right) are their countries' first Olympic medalists in this discipline. #  | Number of medals won by the NOC  | –  | NOC did not win any medals

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NOC  | 1924 | 28 | 32–36 | 48 | 52–98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | Total

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Austria |  | – |  | – |  | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1
Canada |  | – |  | – |  | – | 3 | 1 | – | – | 4
Germany |  | – |  | – |  | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 3
Great Britain |  | 1 |  | 1 |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9
Italy |  | – |  | 1 |  | – | – | – | – | – | 1
Latvia |  | – |  | – |  | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2
Olympic Athletes from Russia |  | – |  | – |  | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1
Russia |  | – |  | – |  | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 3
South Korea |  | – |  | – |  | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1
Switzerland |  | – |  | – |  | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | 3
United States |  | 2 |  | 1 |  | 3 | – | – | 2 | – | 8

## See also

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* IBSF World Championships (bobsleigh and skeleton)
* List of Skeleton World Cup champions

## References

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Medalists

* "Skeleton". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on August 21, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

Citations

1. ^ "Sports". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
2. ^ a b "Skeleton Equipment and History". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on January 13, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
3. ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Skeleton at the 1928 Sankt Moritz Winter Games: Men's Skeleton". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Skeleton at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games: Men's Skeleton". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
5. ^ "Shea Family Legacy". US SHEA.com. Shea Enterprises. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
6. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Duff Gibson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
7. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Skeleton at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's Skeleton". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
8. ^ "Amy Williams wins historic gold medal at Winter Olympics". The Bath Chronicle. 20 February 2010. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
9. ^ Hope, Nick (14 February 2014). "Lizzy Yarnold wins Sochi 2014 gold for Great Britain". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
10. ^ "Sochi 2014: Alexander Tretiakov wins men's skeleton gold". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 15 February 2014. Archived from the original on 16 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
11. ^ "Lizzy Yarnold Wins Gold 2018". bbc.co.uk. 17 February 2018. Archived from the original on February 17, 2018. Retrieved February 17, 2018.

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