Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's


The men's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Cesana Pariol.

Results

and Jeffrey Pain won gold and silver despite Pain nearly losing control of his sled coming around the penultimate corner. Switzerland's Gregor Stähli finished third, beating out Canadian Paul Boehm by only two tenths of a second to prevent a Canadian sweep of the podium. Gibson dedicated his medal to his father, Andy, who had died in December 2005 after an 11-year battle with cancer.
A picture of Gibson in action during this event would be used as a pictogram for the skeleton events at the following Winter Olympics.
RankNameCountryRun 1Run 2TotalDiff.
Duff Gibson0:57.800:58.081:55.88—
Jeff Pain0:57.980:58.161:56.14+0.26
Gregor Stähli0:58.390:58.411:56.80+0.92
4Paul Boehm0:58.610:58.451:57.06+1.18
5Kristan Bromley0:58.350:58.751:57.10+1.22
6Eric Bernotas0:58.430:58.761:57.19+1.31
7Martins Dukurs0:58.790:58.601:57.39+1.51
8Adam Pengilly0:58.370:59.091:57.46+1.58
9Sebastian Haupt0:58.480:59.101:57.58+1.70
10Ben Sandford0:59.160:58.601:57.76+1.88
11Kazuhiro Koshi0:58.650:59.401:58.05+2.17
12Maurizio Oioli0:59.280:59.241:58.52+2.64
13Martin Rettl0:59.230:59.531:58.76+2.88
14Phillippe Cavoret0:59.790:59.081:58.87+2.99
15Aleksandr Tretyakov0:59.710:59.321:59.03+3.15
16Markus Penz0:59.550:59.511:59.06+3.18
17Kevin Ellis0:59.460:59.751:59.21+3.33
18Masaru Inada0:59.630:59.741:59.37+3.49
19Patrick Singleton1:00.060:59.751:59.81+3.93
20David Connolly0:59.971:00.001:59.97+4.09
21Tyler Botha0:59.431:00.632:00.06+4.18
22Shaun Boyle1:00.131:00.002:00.13+4.25
23Kang Kwang Bae1:00.410:59.882:00.29+4.41
24Frank Rommel0:59.941:00.412:00.35+4.47
25Chris Soule1:00.331:00.902:01.23+5.35
26Nikola Nimac1:01.861:02.442:04.30+8.42
27Patrick Antaki1:03.011:01.432:04.44+8.56