The men's skeleton event at the

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, took place at the

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on 18–19 February.2010 Winter Olympics Skeleton schedule.
- accessed 8 November 2009.

Duff Gibson Duff Gibson (born August 11, 1966) is a Canadian skeleton racer who competed from 1999 to 2006. He was born in Vaughan, Ontario. His father was born on December 13, 1937. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, He won the gold medal in the men's ...

was the defending

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. Gibson retired after the 2006 Olympics. Switzerland's

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, the defending Olympic bronze medalist was the defending

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, but did not compete due to a thigh injury sustained during the World Cup event in

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, on 20 November 2009. The test event held at the venue was won by

Jon Montgomery Jonathan Riley "Jon" Montgomery (born May 6, 1979, in Russell, Manitoba) is a Canadian skeleton racer and television host. He won the gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Despite hosti ...

of Canada.Whistler Sliding Centre World Cup 5 February 2009 men's skeleton results.
- accessed 8 November 2009. The last

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event prior to the 2010 Games took place in

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(southeast of Innsbruck), on 23 January 2010 and was won by Latvia's

Martins Dukurs Martins Dukurs (born 31 March 1984) is a Latvian skeleton racer who has competed since 1998. He is a six-time world champion in men's skeleton, a double Olympic silver winner (at Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014), and the athlete with the most ...

who also won the overall World Cup title. 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

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does not consider skeleton times eligible for

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s, the

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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.

Qualifying athletes

On 20 January 2010, the FIBT announced that the following teams had qualified for the 2010 Games: These quotas were updated on 26 January 2010. These are the athletes who qualified for the men's event as of 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. 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. 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.

References

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