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Yun Sung-bin (Korean: 윤성빈; born 23 May 1994) [2] is a South Korean skeleton racer. He won the gold medal in men's skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. [3]
Skeleton is one of the Olympic sport disciplines contested at the Winter Olympic Games. [1] It was introduced at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz – the birthplace of skeleton [2] – in the form of a men's event contested over four runs. [3] Dropped from the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics program, skeleton returned in 1948, when St ...
The skeleton originated in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as a spinoff of the tobogganing sport pioneered by the British on the Cresta Run.Although skeleton "sliders" use equipment similar to that of Cresta "riders", the two sports are different: while skeleton is run on the same tracks used by bobsleds and luge (which are sufficiently 'closed' that a participant is highly unlikely to be ejected ...
Amy Joy Williams, MBE (born 29 September 1982) [3] is a British former skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist. Originally a runner, she began training in skeleton in 2002 after trying the sport on a push-start track at the University of Bath.
Watson got into skeleton racing because, along with bob sledding, it was the only Olympic sport that allowed tryouts. But even after spending three years training with Team USA, it wasn't a ...
In October 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) added the discipline to the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics sports program, with both men's and women's events, and has been held in each Winter Olympic competition since. [1] In June 2022, the IOC added a third event, the mixed team, to the sports program at the 2026 Winter Olympics. [2] [3]
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Tretyakov (Russian: Александр Владимирович Третьяков; born 19 April 1985) is a Russian skeleton rider. Tretyakov is Olympic champion (2014), World champion (2013), European champion (2007) as well as two-times winner of the Skeleton World Cup, which he won in 2008–09 and 2018–19.
Daly began competing in the sport of skeleton in 2001. From 2001 to 2010, he won gold in the Intercontinental Cup and America's Cup where he reset the Lake Placid track record. In the 2008–09 season, Daly won 1st in the St. Moritz Europa Cup as well as the Igls Europa Cup and went on to get 2nd place for the overall Europa Cup title.