Olympics Skeleton Men’s Final medal results

PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 16: Gold medalist Sungbin Yun of Korea celebrates during the Medal Ceremony for Skeleton - Men on day seven of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Medal Plaza on February 16, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 16: Gold medalist Sungbin Yun of Korea celebrates during the Medal Ceremony for Skeleton - Men on day seven of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Medal Plaza on February 16, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images) /
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Yun Sung-Bin made history, winning Korea’s first medal in the skeleton or any sliding sport at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

After the first two runs of the skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea’s Yun Sung-Bin was poised to make history in front of the home crowd. Sung-Bin set track records in his first two runs to sit in the driver’s seat en route to a gold medal, but if simply finished on the podium it would be the first skeleton medal in Korea’s history.

And it would transcend the sport because Korea has never medaled in any sliding sport (luge, bobsled, skeleton).

The field would’ve needed a crucial mistake from Sung-Bin to unseat him for gold, and Sung-Bin finished with a dominant 1.63 seconds difference. After the third run, Sung-Bin already had a one-second lead over Nikita Tregubov which allowed him to cruise through his fourth run and focus on simply not making a mistake.

Team USA skeleton competitors Matt Antoine and John Daly finish 11th and 16th, respectively, and had little chance of medaling after the first two runs had the pair outside the top-10.

Great Britain’s Dom Parsons finished in third, winning bronze. That was the first medal for Great Britain in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

MEDAL RESULT | Skeleton - Men's

Yun Sung-Bin

Nikita Tregubov

Dom Parsons

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