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Martins Dukurs
Dukurs in 2020
Personal information
NationalityLatvian
Born (1984-03-31) 31 March 1984 (age 40)
Rīga, Latvian SSR[1]
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
CountryLatvia
SportSkeleton
Turned pro1998
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver Men
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi Men
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Königssee Men
Gold medal – first place 2012 Lake Placid Men
Gold medal – first place 2015 Winterberg Men
Gold medal – first place 2016 Igls Men
Gold medal – first place 2017 Königssee Men
Gold medal – first place 2019 Whistler Men
Silver medal – second place 2013 St. Moritz Men
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Igls Men
Gold medal – first place 2011 Winterberg Men
Gold medal – first place 2012 Altenberg Men
Gold medal – first place 2013 Igls Men
Gold medal – first place 2014 Königssee Men
Gold medal – first place 2015 La Plagne Men
Gold medal – first place 2016 St. Moritz Men
Gold medal – first place 2017 Winterberg Men
Gold medal – first place 2018 Igls Men
Gold medal – first place 2019 Igls Men
Gold medal – first place 2020 Sigulda Men
Gold medal – first place 2022 St. Moritz Men
Silver medal – second place 2021 Winterberg Men

Martins Dukurs (born 31 March 1984) is a former Latvian skeleton racer, currently a coach, 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 with a total of 11, having won eight consecutive titles between 2010 and 2017, plus another three consecutive titles between 2020 and 2022.

Career

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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]

In August 2022, Dukurs was appointed a performance coach for the British national team.[6]

Career results

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Skeleton World Cup

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Season Place Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2004–05 19th 139 WIN
37 		ALT
20 		IGL
— 		SIG
14 		CES
10 		STM
19 		LPL
13
2005–06 20th 151 CAL
26 		LPL
10 		IGL
20 		SIG
20 		KON
16 		STM
14 		ALT
19
2006–07 12th 255 CAL
18 		PKC
23 		LPL
24 		NAG
15 		IGL
9 		CES
— 		WIN
3 		KON
5
2007–08 5th 1369 CAL
7 		PKC
11 		LPL
4 		CES1
7 		CES2
7 		STM
6 		KON
11 		WIN
1
2008–09 6th 1282 WIN
3 		ALT
2 		IGL
3 		KON
4 		STM
17 		WIN
12 		PKC
11 		LKP
11
2009–10 1st 1694 PKC
1 		LKP
3 		CES
2 		WIN
1 		ALT
5 		KON
1 		STM
3 		IGL
1
2010–11 1st 1719 WHI
5 		CAL
1 		PKC
3 		LKP
2 		IGL
1 		WIN
1 		STM
1 		CES
1
2011–12 1st 1751 IGL
1 		LPL
1 		WIN
1 		ALT
1 		KON
6 		STM
1 		WHI
1 		CAL
1
2012–13 1st 2010 LKP
1 		PKC
1 		WHI
2 		WIN
1 		LPL
1 		ALT
1 		KON
1 		IGL
1 		SOC
1
2013–14 1st 1720 CAL
1 		PKC
2 		LKP
8 		WIN
1 		STM1
1 		STM2
1 		IGL
1 		KON
1
2014–15 1st 1770 LKP
1 		CAL
1 		ALT
1 		KON
2 		STM
1 		LPL
1 		IGL
1 		SOC
2
2015–16 1st 1785 ALT
1 		WIN
1 		KON1
1 		LPL
1 		PAC
1 		WHI
1 		STM
2 		KON2
1
2016–17 1st 1662 WHI
4 		LPL
5 		ALT
2 		WIN
1 		STM
1 		KON
6 		IGL
1 		PYE
1
2017–18 4th 1440 LPL
1 		PAC
2 		WHI
6 		WIN
2 		IGL
1 		ALT
5 		STM
DSQ 		KON
2
2018–19 3rd 1533 SIG
2 		WIN
7 		ALT
7 		IGL
1 		STM
8 		LPL
2 		CAL1
3 		CAL2
4
2019–20 1st 1665 LKP1
2 		LKP1
2 		WIN
4 		PAC
2 		IGL
1 		KON
7 		STM
1 		SIG
1
2020–21 1st 1456 SIG1
1 		SIG2
1 		IGL1
1 		IGL2
1 		WIN
2 		STM
2 		KON
11 		IGL3
—
2021–22 1st 1623 IGL1
2 		IGL2
11 		ALT1
3 		WIN1
4 		ALT2
1 		SIG
3 		WIN2
1 		STM
1

References

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  1. ^ "Martins Dukurs". SR/Olympics. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Martins Dukurs becomes skeleton world champion for 6th time". eng.lsm.lv. Latvian Public Broadcasting. 9 March 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Starkovam un olimpiskajiem medaļniekiem — Triju Zvaigžņu ordeņi" (in Latvian). Sportacentrs.com. 14 April 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Yun chalks up a Korean first with World Cup skeleton title". Reuters. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Martins Dukurs – 2014 Winter Olympics – Olympic Athletes – Sochi, Russia". espn.go.com. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  6. ^ Skeleton legend Dukurs appointed Britain's performance coach
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