Martin's course

Martin's course
nation	Latvia
birthday	31st March 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Riga ,  Soviet Union
size	179 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
discipline	skeleton
society	SRTS Race Team Skeleton
Trainer	Dainis Dukurs Matthias Guggenberger Mihails Arhipovs
National squad	since 2001
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 6 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 10 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2010 Vancouver singles silver 2014 Sochi singles  Skeleton World Championships gold 2011 Königssee singles gold 2012 Lake Placid singles silver 2013 St. Moritz singles gold 2015 Winterberg singles gold 2016 Igls singles gold 2017 Königssee singles gold 2019 Whistler singles  European Skeleton Championships gold 2010 Igls singles gold 2011 Winterberg singles gold 2012 Altenberg singles gold 2013 Igls singles gold 2014 Königssee singles gold 2015 La Plagne singles gold 2016 St. Moritz singles gold 2017 Winterberg singles gold 2018 Igls singles gold 2019 Igls singles
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 1. ( 09/10 ), ( 10/11 ), ( 11/12 ), ( 12/13 ), ( 13/14 ), ( 14/15 ) Debut in the World Cup December 2000 World Cup victories 51 Overall World Cup 01. ( 2009/10 , 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 ) Debut in the European Cup December 2001
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  World cup 53 17th 7th
last change: January 31, 2020

Martins Dukurs (born March 31, 1984 in Riga , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Latvian skeleton driver .

Career

Martins Dukurs made his debut in Winterberg in December 2000 as 34th in the Skeleton World Cup . The following January he also started for the first time at the Skeleton World Championships . In Calgary he was 28. In the 2001/02 season he started in the newly created European Cup . The first outstanding performance in the World Cup he achieved in tenth in January 2005 in the pre-Olympic race in Turin . At the 2006 Winter Olympics , he then reached seventh place. At the European Championships of the year he was eighth. In the 2006/07 season, Martins Dukurs joined the SRTS Race Team Skeleton and made the final breakthrough in the same season. At the World Championships in St. Moritz he finished sixth, at the European Championships in Königssee fourth behind his brother Tomass Dukurs and third at the penultimate World Cup race of the season in Winterberg. In the 2009/10 season he won four World Cup races, finished in the top five in every race and won the overall standings for the World Cup season. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Martins Dukurs won the silver medal behind the Canadian Jon Montgomery . After three of four rounds he was still in the lead, but then slipped back to second place in the last and decisive run.

In the post-Olympic season he won the first title to be awarded at the 2011 European Skeleton Championships in Winterberg. In the World Cup , he achieved seven podium finishes in eight races, including five wins. He won the overall World Cup standings with ease. The strong season was crowned by winning the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Königssee . He drove the best time in all four rounds. With victories at the 2012 World Championships and the World Cup , Dukurs became the first skeleton to win both titles two years in a row. In January 2013 he won the European Skeleton Championship 2013 for the fourth time and at the World Championship he won silver behind Alexander Tretyakov . In the World Cup he only had to admit defeat to Frank Rommel in one race and won the overall World Cup again. In 2014 he became European champion again and won the overall World Cup for the fifth time after not being on the podium in just one race. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , however, he could not prevail against Alexander Tretyakov and again won the silver medal. In winter 2014/15 he defended his European title again and won the overall world cup for the sixth time in a row . He also won the world title for the third time. In the 2015/16 World Cup , he won seven of the eight races and took the overall World Cup again. Only in the seventh race of the season he had to admit defeat to Yun Sung-bin . However, at the same time he won his seventh gold at the European Championships with his brother Tomass . He also defended his title at the World Championships in Igls.

Since 2010 Dukurs has been trained by former world champion Gregor Stähli , among others .

Awards

Dukurs was awarded the three-star medal in 2010 . In 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019 he was named Latvian Sportsman of the Year .

successes

Overall World Cup

season	space	Points
2004/05	019th	0139
2005/06	020th	0151
2006/07	012.	0255
2007/08	05.	1369
2008/09	06th	1282
2009/10	01.	1694
2010/11	01.	1719
2011/12	01.	1751
2012/13	01.	2010
2013/14	01.	1720
2014/15	01.	1770
2015/16	01.	1785
2016/17	01.	1662
2017/18	04th	1440
2018/19	03.	1533

World Cup victories

Single seater

No.	date	place	train
01.	0Feb 8, 2008	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
02.	Nov 12, 2009	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
03.	Dec 11, 2009	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
04th	0Jan. 8, 2010	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
05.	Jan. 23, 2010	Innsbruck-Igls	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
06th	0Dec 2, 2010	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
07th	Jan 15, 2011	Innsbruck-Igls	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
08th.	Jan. 23, 2011	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
09.	Jan. 28, 2011	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
10.	0Feb 4, 2011	Cesana	Cesana Pariol
11.	0Dec 3, 2011	Innsbruck-Igls	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
12.	0Dec 9, 2011	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
13.	Dec 16, 2011	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
14th	0Jan. 6, 2012	Altenberg	DKB ice channel
15th	Jan. 21, 2012	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
16.	0Feb 4, 2012	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
17th	Feb 10, 2012	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
19th	0Nov 8, 2012	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
19th	Nov 17, 2012	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
20th	0Dec 7, 2012	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
21st	Dec 14, 2012	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
22nd	0Jan. 5, 2013	Altenberg	DKB ice channel
23.	Jan. 12, 2013	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
24.	Jan. 19, 2013	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
25th	Feb 13, 2013	Sochi	Sliding Center Sanki
26th	Jan. 29, 2013	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
27.	0Jan. 3, 2014	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
28.	Jan. 10, 2014	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
29	Jan. 12, 2014	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
30th	Jan. 18, 2014	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
31.	Jan. 25, 2014	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
32.	Dec 12, 2014	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
33.	Dec. 19, 2014	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
34.	Jan. 10, 2015	Altenberg	DKB ice channel
35.	Jan. 23, 2015	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
36.	Jan. 30, 2015	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
37.	0Feb 7, 2015	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
38.	Nov 28, 2015	Altenberg	DKB ice channel
39.	0Dec 4, 2015	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
40.	Dec 12, 2015	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
41.	0Jan. 9, 2016	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
42.	Jan. 16, 2016	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
43.	Jan. 23, 2016	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
44.	Feb. 27, 2016	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
45.	Jan. 14, 2017	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
46.	Jan. 20, 2017	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
47.	03rd Feb 2017	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
48.	17th Mar 2017	Pyeongchang	Olympic Sliding Center
49.	Nov 10, 2017	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
50.	Dec 15, 2017	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
51.	Jan. 18, 2019	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
52.	Jan. 17, 2020	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
53.	Jan 31, 2020	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina

Web links

Commons : Martins Dukurs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martins Dukurs in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Martins Dukurs on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Martins Dukurs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results at the-sports.org (English)
• Tomass un Martins Dukuri (Lat.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M.Dukurs kļūst par divkārtēju pasaules čempionu, Tomass piektais , sportacentrs.com (Latvian). Retrieved March 8, 2015.
2. ↑ Starkovam un olimpiskajiem medaļniekiem - Triju Zvaigžņu ordeņi , sportacentrs.com (Latvian). Retrieved March 8, 2015.