Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. The events were scheduled to take place between 15 and 17 February 2018. A total of two skeleton events were held, one each for men and women.

Skeleton
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueAlpensia Sliding Centre
Dates15–17 February
No. of events2 (1 men, 1 women)
Competitors50 from 24 nations

Qualification

A total of 50 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum 30 men and 20 women could qualify. The qualification was based on 3 successive iterations of the world rankings of 14 January 2018.[1]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for the two skeleton events.[2]

All times are (UTC+9).

DateTimeEvent
15 February10:00Men's singles runs 1 and 2
16 February09:30Men's singles runs 3 and 4
20:20Women's singles runs 1 and 2
17 February20:20Women's singles runs 3 and 4

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain (GBR)1023
2 South Korea (KOR)*1001
3 Germany (GER)0101
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)0101
Totals (4 nations)2226

Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's[3]
Yun Sung-bin
 South Korea
3.20.55 Nikita Tregubov
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
3.22.18 Dominic Parsons
 Great Britain
3.22.20
Women's[4]
Lizzy Yarnold
 Great Britain
3:27.28 Jacqueline Lölling
 Germany
3:27.73 Laura Deas
 Great Britain
3:27.90

Participating nations

A total of 50 athletes from 24 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) participated. The number of athletes each National Olympic Committee (NOC) entered are shown in parentheses.[5][6] Eight nations made their Winter Olympics debut in the sport: Belgium, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Netherlands, Israel, Nigeria and Ukraine.

References

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