The men's skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February, on the Utah Olympic Park Track at the Utah Olympic Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. The event featured 26 competitors from 18 nations. American Jimmy Shea won the event at his home Olympics, while Martin Rettl of Austria and Gregor Stähli of Switzerland finished second and third respectively. This was the first time a skeleton event was held at the Winter Olympics since 1948, and was the third Olympic skeleton event in history.
Background In 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the addition of skeleton to the 2002 Olympic program. This would be the first time skeleton had been hosted at the Olympics since 1948, and its first time being hosted at the Games outside of St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Results
Rank Name CountryRun 1 Run 2 Total Diff. Jimmy Shea 50.89 51.07 1:41.96 — Martin Rettl 51.02 50.99 1:42.01 +0.05 Gregor Stähli 51.16 50.99 1:42.15 +0.19 4 Clifton Wrottesley 51.07 51.50 1:42.57 +0.61 5 Lincoln Dewitt 51.63 51.20 1:42.83 +0.87 6 Jeff Pain 51.51 51.41 1:42.92 +0.96 7 Chris Soule 51.89 51.09 1:42.98 +1.02 8 Kazuhiro Koshi 51.50 51.52 1:43.02 +1.06 9 Wilfried Schneider 51.67 51.47 1:43.14 +1.18 10 Duff Gibson 51.40 51.76 1:43.16 +1.20 11 Frank Kleber 51.58 51.76 1:43.34 +1.38 12 Christian Auer 51.81 51.56 1:43.37 +1.41 13 Kristan Bromley 52.17 51.26 1:43.43 +1.47 14 Snorre Pedersen 52.07 51.70 1:43.77 +1.81 15 Pascal Richard 51.98 51.86 1:43.84 +1.88 16 Felix Poletti 51.76 52.11 1:43.87 +1.91 17 Philippe Cavoret 51.92 51.96 1:43.88 +1.92 18 Masaru Inada 52.05 51.93 1:43.98 +2.02 19 Christian Steger 52.25 52.15 1:44.40 +2.44 20 Kang Kwang-Bae 52.11 52.40 1:44.51 +2.55 21 Tomass Dukurs 52.29 52.38 1:44.67 +2.71 22 Konstantin Aladashvili 52.92 52.67 1:45.59 +3.63 23 Michael Voudouris 54.11 54.33 1:48.44 +6.48 24 Josef Chuchla 54.02 54.64 1:48.66 +6.70 25 Luis Carrasco 54.32 54.66 1:48.98 +7.02 26 German Glessner 55.40 57.25 1:52.65 +10.69 Source:
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