Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Dates 18 – 19 February 2010
Medal Events 2

The controversy in the luge event spilled over to the skeleton when questions over the safety of the course were raised. Nevertheless, with additional safety features added to the course, the events went ahead. For the first time the skeleton competition comprised four runs over two days. The Canadians, on home soil, felt they could take both gold medals, but in the end they won the men’s event, with the women’s gold medal going to Great Britain, the first time they had won a skeleton gold medal and continuing a remarkable run of winning an Olympic medal each year skeleton events have been contested at the Olympic Winter Games. Germany, Latvia and Russia won their first ever medals in this sport. There were complaints from other nations that Canada had limited training runs in Whistler, while giving their own sliders unlimited access to the runs.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Skeleton, Men Olympic 18 – 19 February 2010 28 17
Skeleton, Women Olympic 18 – 19 February 2010 19 11
47 (28/19) 19 (17/11)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Skeleton, Men Jon MontgomeryCAN Martins DukursLAT Aleksandr TretyakovRUS
Skeleton, Women Amy WilliamsGBR Kerstin SzymkowiakGER Anja HuberGER

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Canada CAN 1 0 0 1
Great Britain GBR 1 0 0 1
Germany GER 0 1 1 2
Latvia LAT 0 1 0 1
Russian Federation RUS 0 0 1 1