At the Olympic bobsleigh track in St. Moritz-Celerino, the Briton set a start record (4.75 seconds) and a course record (1:07.39 minutes) and finished almost a second and a half ahead of Italian Amedeo Bagnis (1.29 seconds behind), who took second place. For Bagnis, the 2023 world championship runner-up, it was his first podium of the Olympic season, just weeks before the 2026 Winter Games in Milan, Cortina, on his home track of Cortina d’Ampezzo.
In St. Moritz, 2022 Olympic champion Kristoffer Gröther (Germany) finished third, 1.50 seconds behind. It was also the three-time skeleton world champion’s first podium finish of the season.
Yin Zheng of China, Sengi Jung of South Korea and Axel Jung of Germany rounded out the top six in St. Moritz, all three within six hundredths of a second.
We previously reported that the Latvian skeleton team will not participate in this week’s IBSF World Cup stage in St. Moritz, Switzerland, instead they will compete in the European Cup, hoping to get the necessary points in the Olympic qualification.
PK skeleton in St. Moritz, men
| V | Sportsman | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Put on jackets | Great Britain | 2;15.67 |
| 2. | Madaeo Bagnis | Italy | +1.29 |
| 3. | Christopher Grother | Germany | +1.50 |
| 4. | Jeans Jeans | China | +2.08 |
| 5. | Sengage Jungs | Korea | +2.12 |
| 6. | Axel Jung | Germany | +2.14 |
Resources used:
https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/detail…
