List of Olympic medalists in skeleton

[1] It was introduced at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz – the birthplace of skeleton[2] – in the form of a men's event contested over four runs.

His younger brother, John Heaton, was runner-up, spending an additional second to complete all three runs (the fourth was cancelled).

[3] He repeated this result 20 years later, placing behind Nino Bibbia of Italy, who won his country's first Winter Olympic gold medal.

[7] Four years later, Jon Montgomery secured a back-to-back victory for Canada in the men's event, while Amy Williams's win in the women's event gave Great Britain its only medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, as well as its first individual gold medalist since 1980, and first individual female gold medalist since 1952.

[8] This victory was emulated four years later in Sochi by another British athlete, Lizzy Yarnold, who secured her country's second consecutive Olympic skeleton gold medal.

A man celebrates near a joyful crowd waving American flags behind a security fence. Holding a helmet high in his left hand, he wears a blue, red, white, and orange jumpsuit with the Olympic rings, the words Salt Lake City, and a number four in the chest.
American Jimmy Shea won the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics men's skeleton event, becoming the first Olympic skeleton champion since Nino Bibbia in the 1948 Games .
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In 2006, Duff Gibson became the first Olympic skeleton champion from Canada and the oldest individual Winter Olympic gold medalist.
A brunette with long wavy hair smiles at the top of a podium as she raises her right arm and holds, with her left hand, a gold medal hung around her neck. She wears a vivid red sports jacket and dark blue sports trousers.
Amy Williams was the first British athlete since 1980 to win an individual event at the Winter Olympics, and the first British female athlete to do so since 1952.
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Jon Montgomery ( center ) celebrates a Canadian back-to-back Olympic title. Martins Dukurs of Latvia ( left ) and Aleksandr Tretyakov of Russia ( right ) are their countries' first Olympic medalists in this discipline.