Martins Dukurs

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Martins Dukurs

Personal information
Nationality	Latvian
Born	(1984-03-31) 31 March 1984 (age 37) Rīga, Latvian SSR[1]
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Country	Latvia
Sport	Skeleton
Turned pro	1998
hide Medal record Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Men 2014 Sochi Men World Championships 2011 Königssee Men 2012 Lake Placid Men 2015 Winterberg Men 2016 Igls Men 2017 Königssee Men 2019 Whistler Men 2013 St. Moritz Men European Championships 2010 Igls Men 2011 Winterberg Men 2012 Altenberg Men 2013 Igls Men 2014 Königssee Men 2015 La Plagne Men 2016 St. Moritz Men 2017 Winterberg Men 2018 Igls Men 2019 Igls Men 2020 Sigulda Men 2021 Winterberg Men

Martins Dukurs (born 31 March 1984) is a Latvian skeleton racer who has competed since 1998. He is a six-time world champion in men's skeleton,^[2] a double Olympic silver winner (at Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014), and the athlete with the most World Cup titles, having won eight consecutive titles between 2010 and 2017, plus one additional title in 2020.

Career[]

Dukurs on a 2014 Latvian stamp

Dukurs finished seventh in the men's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and sixth in the men's skeleton event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the 2011 FIBT World Championships, 2012 FIBT World Championships, 2015 FIBT World Championships, 2016 FIBT World Championships and 2017 FIBT World Championships.

Martins won the overall World Cup for the 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 season, 2016–17 season and 2019–20 season.

At the end of the 2019–20 Skeleton World Cup season he had 54 World Cup race victories.

His older brother Tomass is also a skeleton racer. Both he and his brother qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Olympics. In 2010 Martins Dukurs was decorated with the Order of the Three Stars.^[3]

In November 2017 Sochi gold medalist Alexander Tretiakov was disqualified by the IOC and his medal stripped from him; however a decision on whether Martins Dukurs would be granted a gold medal was not made by the IBSF. He would have been the first ever Latvian athlete to win gold at the Winter Olympics. However, Tretiakov would appeal against his disqualification to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who overturned his disqualification and reinstated his gold medal.

On 19 January 2018 Martins was retroactively disqualified from the 2018 St. Moritz World Cup for having a too hard sled.^[4]

Martins and Tomass' father, Dainis Dukurs, is a former bobsleigh brakeman, former manager of the Sigulda sledding track, sled designer and coach of the Latvian skeleton team.^[5]

Career results[]

Skeleton World Cup[]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Martins Dukurs.

• Martins Dukurs at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Martins Dukurs at the International Olympic Committee
• Martins Dukurs at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Martins Dukurs at Skeletonsport.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 September 2007)

Olympic Games
Preceded by Artūrs Irbe	Flagbearer for  Latvia Vancouver 2010	Succeeded by Sandis Ozoliņš